Research on the yacht wreck of the British tycoon Mike Lynchin Sicily last week, was expanded to include other two crew members, Italian media reported on Wednesday.
Prosecutors on the Italian island are investigating possible crimes of manslaughter after the sinking of the “Bayesian” during a pre-dawn storm on August 19, which resulted in the Death of Mike Lynch, his daughter and five other people.
Captain James Cutfield, a New Zealander who is among the 15 survivors, was already under investigation. Now mechanic Tim Parker Eaton, who was in charge of the engine room that night, and seaman Matthew Griffiths (or Griffith according to other sources) who was on watch, have been added.
Parker Eaton, British, He is suspected of not having properly verified that the doors were closed. and that the watertight compartments were activated, while Griffiths, also British, is suspected of not having raised the alarm in time.
Mike Lynch, 59, nicknamed the “British Bill Gates”was celebrating with friends, collaborators and lawyers his acquittal in June in a fraud trial in the United States that could have cost him years in prison.
He yacht The 56-metre long ship was hit by a waterspout while anchored off Porticello, near Palermo.
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The body of the yacht’s chef was found shortly after, and the bodies of six peoplebetween They are Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughterwere found by divers in the following days.