Mike Lynch still missing two days after ex-partner killed by car

Fifty-six metres long and with a mast the height of a tall building, the superyacht Bayesian was supposed to be in its element when anchored off Sicily’s north coast on Sunday night. Yet it sank swiftly when hit before dawn by what locals called a freak tornado. Divers were still searching last night for its de facto owner, Mike Lynch, the tech titan acquitted in a sensational trial earlier this year in San Francisco. Lynch's software company, Autonomy, was sold in 2011 for $11 billion to Hewlett Packard, which wrote down its value by $8.8 billion the next year and accused Lynch of fraudulently overvaluing it. Missing and now presumed drowned, he was predeceased by two days by his co-defendant in the Hewlett Packard case. Stephen Chamberlain, a former vice president of finance at Autonomy, was hit by a car while out running in Cambridgeshire on Saturday. He died later of his injuries. There are about 70 “waterspout” tornadoes in Italian coastal waters each year.