Italian prosecutors have placed the boat’s captain and two Britons who worked on the yacht under investigation for suspected multiple manslaughter and culpable shipwreck.
Four people who died when a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily, suffocated to death in an air bubble as oxygen ran out, according to Italian media.
Jonathan Bloomer, his wife Judy Bloomer, Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo were four of the seven people who died when the Bayesian superyacht sank last month.
They were on the trip with British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch to celebrate his acquittal of fraud charges in June in the US, when a violent storm hit.
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Mr Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah Lynch, and the yacht’s chef, Recaldo Thomas, died as well.
Their post-mortems, along with those of Mr Morvillo and his wife, were said to have found no water in their lungs, suggesting they died as their cabins filled with carbon dioxide and ran out of oxygen.
