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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Emily Dugan

‘She was easy to love’: friends and family pay tribute to Hannah Lynch

A headshot of Hannah Lynch smiling for the camera
Hannah Lynch, who died after the luxury yacht Bayesian sank in a storm, had a place to study English at Oxford University. Photograph: PA Media

The 18-year-old daughter of the British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, whose body was recovered on Friday from the wreck of her father’s yacht, was “fiercely intelligent and genuinely kind” and had a promising future, friends and teachers have said.

Hannah Lynch was described as “one of the best English students in the country”. She was one of seven people, including her father, who died after his yacht Bayesian sank during a storm off the coast of Sicily on Monday.

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