UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, co-founder of Autonomy, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley’s international chair Jonathan Bloomer, Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance, are among the six unaccounted for after superyacht was hit by a tornado and sank within sixty seconds. Chamberlin, the former vice-president of finance at Autonomy, Lynch’s co-defendant in a US trial related to the sale of his software company to Hewlett-Packard had died after being hit by a car while out running in Cambridgeshire. The 59-year-old Lynch was acquitted by a jury in San Francisco in June, after he spent more then a year living in effect under house arrest. Chamberlin’s lawyer, Gary Lincenberg, said Chambelin had died after being “fatally struck” by a car while out running.

Mike Lynch has been recovered from the wreck of a yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily early on Monday, but searches are continuing for his missing 18-year-daughter Hannah.

Six bodies have now been brought to shore after the sinking of the luxury yacht Bayesian, which foundered during a freak storm off the fishing village of Porticello, east of Palermo.

Salvatore Cocina, head of civil protection agency in Sicily & an Italian coastguard said the British-flagged Bayesian, a 56, metre sailboat, carrying 22 people and anchored just off shore near the port of Porticello when it was hit by a tornado in the early hours of Monday morning. One man, understood be the vessel’s chef, was confirmed dead, Fifteen people were rescued, including Lynch’s wife, Angela Backers, who owned the boat, and a one-year-old girl who was saved by her mother.

Bayesian, which was carrying a crew of 10 people and 12 passengers,  sunk to approximately 49 metres and the public prosecutor’s office in Termini Imerese was investigating the incident. “The wind was very strong. Bad weather was expected, but not of this magnitude” according to a coast guard official in the Sicilian capital Palermo.

New Zealand lawyer Ayla Ronald, employed by Clifford Chance, was named as one of the survivors. 

Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, which owns several boat brands including the yacht’s builder, Perini Navi said that “Bayesian was designed to be absolutely stable and carry the world’s second-tallest mast. It took 16 minutes from when the boat was caught by the tornado and started dragging the anchor near Porticello before the yacht went down”