The news has sent shockwaves around the world since it broke on Monday: Mike Lynch, the UK tech tycoon worth an estimated £852m and widely referred to as the “Bill Gates of Britain”, is among the six confirmed dead or missing in Sicily after the superyacht they were holidaying on sunk off the coast of Palermo.
Officials say the luxury vessel, the Bayesian, was hit by a freak “tornado” before sinking 160ft to the bottom of the sea bed. Fifteen of the 22 onboard were rescued, including Lynch’s wife Angela Bacares and a baby believed to be a one-year-old British girl called Sophia, whose mother Charlotte Golunski saved her from drowning by holding her above her head in raging water.
