Hannah Lynch's body recovered
Baku, August 24, AZERTAC
The body of the seventh and last victim of Monday's freak sinking of British tech magnate Mike Lynch's Bayesian super-yacht, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, was located at the wreck near Palermo on Friday, according to ANSA.
Divers recovered the young woman's body and brought it up to the surface.
All seven bodies will now be taken to a morgue for autopsies amid reports that negligent-manslaughter charges may be brought in the incident.
Mike Lynch's body was recovered Thursday.
Four bodies were recovered by divers on Wednesday: Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley International, his wife Anne Elizabeth, Lynch's lawyer Chris Morvillo and the latter's wife Nada.
The body of chef Recaldo Thomas was recovered on Monday.
The Bayesian went down in a matter of minutes after being hit by a freak water spout at dawn Monday.
Hannah Lynch had just won a place at Oxford University.
She was reportedly a model student, a lover of books and poetry, who after graduating from one of the UK's most exclusive schools was preparing to go up to the prestigious British university this autumn.
Mike Lynch, 59, once dubbed the British Bill Gates, had taken friends and family on a cruise in the Bayesian in order to celebrate the end of a 12-year legal ordeal stemming from the billion-dollar sale of his tech company to Hewlett-Packard.
The Bayesian, with 22 people on board, sank after a tornado hit the area. Coast guards rescued 15 passengers but seven others were reported missing.
Meanwhile the Bayesian's Kiwi captain, expert sailor James Catfield, 51, was questioned by Termini Imerese prosecutors for two hours earlier this week.
According to an expert engineer at Italian Sea Group - the company that owns Perini Navi, the shipyard in Viareggio that in 2008 launched the Bayesian - who spoke on condition of anonymity and expressing a personal opinion, several mistakes may have been committed ahead of the accident.
Potential mistakes include the fact that the boat's engines were off and that passengers were allowed to remain in their cabins during the storm.
"Basic security protocols provide for always having someone on guard duty during a storm, including when a boat is at anchor.
"Moreover, even if the tornado was about to hit, there was all the time necessary to make it to safety, just 15 minutes would have been necessary to activate all security measures", the engineer said.
Former British minister Lord Deben said Wednesday that his friend Lynch had been "set to start again" after getting through his 12-year legal case.
Lynch had ended up at the centre of a high-profile fraud case and in June a US jury acquitted him of all charges relating to the sale of his software company to Hewlett-Packard in 2011. His wife Angela Bacares was among those rescued.
The yacht's name is understood to derive from the Bayesian theory, which Lynch's PhD thesis and the software that made his fortune was based on.
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