Two people on sunken Mike Lynch yacht suffocated in cabin, says source

Members of the rescue team at the scene after the Bayesian sank in a storm off the coast of Porticello, Sicily. Seven people died, including tech entrepreneur Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah. File photo: Jonathan Brady/PA

Two of the people who died on tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s yacht, which capsized and sank off the coast of Sicily on August 19, allegedly died from asphyxiation when they ran out of oxygen in the cabins.

According to a source, Chris Morvillo, a Clifford Chance lawyer, and his wife, Neda, “did not have water in their lungs, trachea, and stomach”.