UK entrepreneur Mike Lynch reportedly missing after tornado sinks superyacht

toomuchtodo · on Aug 19, 2024

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kitd · on Aug 19, 2024

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is reportedly among the people missing after the luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily, sources have told Reuters and PA news agency.

The BBC has yet to independently confirm this.

rvz · on Aug 19, 2024

Oh dear, hope that he makes it.

Very skeptical about this "tornado" causing the sinking of the yacht, after beating this case and going free on his own yacht.

Wonder if some entity wanted to settle a score or to take him out over something that was very embarrassing. Who knows.

Will have to wait until more details about this soon.

kitd · on Aug 19, 2024

Seriously?

There's no question about the validity of the tornado reports. There have been huge storms around Sicily this week. I think a few people would have noticed.

timthorn · on Aug 19, 2024

Nonetheless, there is a coincidence in that Stephen Chamberlain, his codefendant, was critically injured in a car crash on Saturday: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/mike-lynch-s-co-defenda...

rvz · on Aug 19, 2024

Seems like someone is very angry or lost lots of money on that case and then only after the case was closed, the disappearances, 'tornadoes' and 'accidents' are now happening to anyone in proximity to Mike Lynch.

Why now and most importantly... who?

kitd · on Aug 20, 2024

Coincidences happen every minute of every hour of every day all over the world. Occasionally they involve people in the news.

The chairman of Morgan Stanley is also missing from the yacht. Was he under suspicion too?

rvz · on Aug 21, 2024

Such bad entities would not care who was affected in the incident if they were willing to go after their intended target even if it meant others would be caught in the blast radius.

This also does not explain how after that the case was closed, those directly connected to beating the lawsuit are now either disappeared or found dead and now with Mike Lynch who is now unfortunately deceased. Even if they had advanced notice of the 'weather' conditions, none of the other boats were affected and ONLY that yacht was.

So really... who?