Tech tycoon Mike ... yacht’s tank, a spokesman said. In August maritime director of western Sicily rear admiral Raffaele Macauda told a press conference that Bayesian’s owner, now Dr Lynch ...

Prosecutors have said raising and examining the yacht for evidence would provide key elements to the investigation into possible manslaughter and negligent shipwreck launched days after the sinking.

Dr Lynch had founded software giant Autonomy in 1996 and was cleared in June last year of carrying out a massive fraud over the sale of the firm to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011. The boat trip was ...