Widow of Mike Lynch, tycoon who died in the sinking of his yacht, feels “tormented” for having survived

It has been over a month since the news of the sinking of a luxury superyacht off the coast of Sicily shocked the world. On board were 22 occupants, seven of whom lost their lives, including the magnate and owner of the boat Mike Lynch, as well as his daughter Hannah.

This weekend, the tycoon, his wife, Angela Bacares, who survived the sinking, and their two daughters, 18-year-old Hannah and 21-year-old Esme, who did not join the tragic boat trip, would have been at the Cliveden Literary Festival in Berkshire, where Lynch was supposed to give a speech on artificial intelligence and the future of technology and accompany the youngest of the family to Trinity College in Oxford, where she had secured a place to study English literature.

How has Angela Bacares, the widow of Mike Lynch, the magnate who sank on his yacht off the coast of Sicily, said she feels?

However, tragedy has disrupted the Lynch family and now all these plans have taken on a different tone. According to the British newspaper Daily Mail, the widow of the tycoon cannot stop crying and feeling guilty after saving her own life.

And as if the pain of mourning were not enough, while Angela is in charge of organizing the funerals of her husband and daughter, whose bodies have been flown by private plane to the United Kingdom, Hewlett Packard has confirmed that it will continue with the lawsuit against the deceased tech magnate, claiming nearly 3.7 billion euros in damages, as reported by The Guardian newspaper.

Before dying, Mike had been involved in a case of transatlantic fraud, a result of the sale in 2011 of his technology group, Autonomy, to Hewlett Packard, who alleged "accounting irregularities" accusing Lynch and his partners of fraudulently inflating the price of their company. Although he had been acquitted of these irregularities in the criminal trial in the United States, it was not the case in civil proceedings in the United Kingdom where in 2022 a judge of the High Court ruled that the magnate and his partners probably knew about the "irregularities" in the company and, therefore, were responsible for the damages.

Despite Lynch’s death raising the possibility of HP dropping the lawsuit, earlier this month, the company’s CEO, Antonio Neri, confirmed they will continue. “The reality of what happened doesn’t change what occurred in the last decade, where we believe irregularities took place.”