Investigators say 5 bodies were found in the same cabin of Mike Lynch's superyacht as prosecutors begin looking into 'crime hypothesis'
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- Investigators say five bodies were found in the same cabin of Mike Lynch's superyacht.
- The "Bayesian" sank off the coast of Porticello, Sicily, on August 19.
- Seven people have been confirmed to have died in the incident.
Investigators have said that the bodies of five people who died after British tech tycoon Mike Lynch's superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily were discovered in the same cabin.
Speaking at a press conference on Saturday morning, Bentivoglio Fiandra from the local fire rescue service said: "The yacht tended to the right and obviously the bodies tried to go to the other side and take refuge in their cabins."
"We found five bodies in a cabin on the left and another one in the third cabin on the left. They were in the higher part of the shipwreck," he added, per The Telegraph.
Prosecutors say they have opened a manslaughter investigation following the sinking.
Ambrogio Cartosio, the head of the public prosecutor's office of Termini Imerese, said he was investigating a "crime hypothesis" of culpable shipwreck and manslaughter.
The Bayesian, an 184-foot superyacht, sank on August 19 off the coast of Porticello, Sicily.
Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah were among seven people confirmed to have died in the incident.
Lynch was on the yacht with friends and family celebrating his recent acquittal in a fraud trial.
He had won the 12-year legal battle over his tech company in June.
Stephen Chamberlain, a former vice president of finance at Autonomy who was also a defendant in the fraud trial, died in a separate incident just days before the Bayesian sank.
Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, and his wife, Judy, also died after the yacht went down.
A second couple, Christopher and Neda Morvillo, also died in the sinking. Christopher Morvillo was a partner at Clifford Chance and was Lynch's lawyer.
A chef on the yacht, Recaldo Thomas, was the only crewmember to have died in the incident.