Mike Lynch yacht sinking and business partner mown down out running.

flappergirl

My mother was friends with 2 brothers in her youth. One of the brothers died going over the handlebars of his bike on his way to school and on the very same date the following year the other brother died in exactly the same way, also cycling to school.

That’s terrible! The poor Mum.😢Almost unbelievable isn’t it?

Just heard on Radio 2 News, that the Italian Authorities are investigating with a view to manslaughter charges.

My thoughts are with those who have lost their loved ones RIP💐

biglouis

With what is going on in the world at present I am wondering at all this fuss because 6 very rich people die on a luxury yacht in a seastorm. At least most of the crew got away.

I get what you are saying, and I get what others on here are saying.

My take is, it is more of a "man thing".
Big boats, wealth, etc.
And media is more of a man's world, so it gets reported "well".

It seems OP could have a point. The Italian police are now starting a manslaughter investigation into the sinking.

colliemum

It seems OP could have a point. The Italian police are now starting a manslaughter investigation into the sinking.

The Temini Imerese prosecution has opened a case hypothesising the crime of shipwreck and manslaughter.
Hypothesising is the important word here.
an idea or explanation for something that is based on known facts but has not yet been proven

Italian law is unknown to me.
I assume the divers have surveyed the keel, the hatches etc. Hence maybe the manslaughter investigation.

On BBC News yesterday evening they said that in Italian law a manslaughter charge can be brought against someone who may be responsible for deaths at sea. A good job the Captain and all but one of the crew survived so they can get the full facts.

fancythat

biglouis

With what is going on in the world at present I am wondering at all this fuss because 6 very rich people die on a luxury yacht in a seastorm. At least most of the crew got away.

I get what you are saying, and I get what others on here are saying.

My take is, it is more of a "man thing".
Big boats, wealth, etc.
And media is more of a man's world, so it gets reported "well".

This sinking dominated the headlines because of who the yacht belonged too,

Mike Lynch, who came from a very ordinary family, mother a nurse, father a fireman, was born with a quite extraordinary intellect. He did a first degree and PHD in maths at Cambridge and then had some revolutionary ideas for the use of statistical theories to understand huge datasets.

With others he set up a company that dveloped these ideas, grew rapidly and about 10 years ago was bought by Hewlett Packard. HP then decided they had paid too much for it and accused Mike Lynch of dishonesty, which he and the other accused denied. The law case over this dragged on for 10 years.

The USA wanted to try him in the USA, where he could have been imprisoned for 20 years or more. Under a grossly unbalanced extradition treaty, British people can be extradited tothe US to be tried for crimes that were not committed in the US but involved US companies while we cannot get the US to send back to the UK US citizens accused of killing people by dangerous driving because we might imprison them, probably only for a couple of years.

In the end he and a colleague Stephen Chamberlain were extradited, kept under house arrest for over a year and finally acquitted of any crime, to the amazement of all, but said to be because Mike Lynch went into the witness book and won the jury over.

This was in June this year. His relief this long ordeal was over must have been immense. being the man he was, to show his gratitude to his legal team he invited the main people involved to join him on a cruise on his boat - and we know what happened.

To you biglouis and fancythat, he may be just a rich man in a big boat, but he was still a man with a family who loved and cared for him and, do not forget, one of his chidren, an 18 year old girl died as well. Money does not leassen grief when tragedies like this occur.

More imprtantly, for those who knew about him and had read more widely than you can be bothered to do before you made your remarks. Mike Lynch was a man of quite exceptional ability - he has been called the British Bill Gates, because of the transformational nature of the work he has done. He was a man of wide intellectual interests and came form modest beginnings and from everything I have read, he was a very nice man, liked by almost everyone who knew him.

He also leaves a grieving wife and mother of the daughter who died and a second daughter.

When so manypeople on here parade their belief in equality and all that rich and hoor should be treated alike and anyone who can show more sympathy for the crew than the others on that ship, merely because those who drowned had more money than the crew is contemptible.

Ahem.

Goodness only knows what you are saying and thinking of me.

To be honest, I cannot be bothered to wade through all that, or what on earth you are thinking.
So you can carry on thinking whatever, as far as I am concerned.

Actually, for the first time for something like that, I think I will report.
If GN let it stand, so be it.

Thankyou for your very interesting post MOnica. Very sad indeed that what was intended to be a celebratory trip should end so tragically.

I find it very odd!

MOnica Thank you for your humane post

Hipsy

MOnica Thank you for your humane post

agree. except for the last word.

Agree with you MOnica, particularly the last word.

There could be a charge of manslaughter because hatches were left open even though there was an impending storm. It is believed that water flooding through the open hatches caused the yacht to sink so swiftly.
Not so much a conspiracy just human error culminating in a terrible tragedy.