After tragedy hit the Bayesian early on Monday, amateur investigators quickly up to their conclusions.
The death of a former coworker of missing technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch is neither “suspicious or untoward,” according to British police.
Following his Saturday vehicle accident in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, close to his Longstanton home, 52-year-old Stephen Chamberlain passed away in a hospital.
One of the people missing from Monday’s storm off Sicily is Mr. Lynch, whose yacht, the Bayesian, sunk.
According to Cambridgeshire Police, officers had not communicated with Italian law enforcement and had no plans to visit Italy.
Business partners Mr. Lynch and Mr. Chamberlain had been defendants in an American fraud trial earlier this year.
The $11 billion (£8.6 billion) sale of Mr. Lynch’s software company, Autonomy, to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 was the subject of fraud accusations from US authorities.
They both got off lightly.
Mr. Chamberlain was a financial officer at Autonomy, which Mr. Lynch co-founded in 1996.
In 2022, Hewlett Packard (HP) sued Mr. Lynch in the London High Court and prevailed in a multibillion-dollar legal action.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesman told the BBC, “All we can do is investigate the incident in our county and so far there is no indication of anything suspicious or untoward and we are satisfied this is a tragic road collision.”
“We are investigating the collision on Saturday but officers are not going out to Italy.”
She stated that the Italian police looking into the boat disaster had not been contacted by Cambridgeshire investigators.
Mr. Lynch,59, was reared close to Chelmsford, Essex, and had owned a property close to Pettistree, Suffolk. Hannah, his 18-year-old daughter, is also missing.
After completing his studies at Cambridge University, he assisted in the founding of Cambridge Neurodynamics in 1991, a company that focused on computer-based fingerprint detection and recognition.
Five years later, autonomy was established utilizing a statistical method known as “Bayesian inference” at the core of its software.
