Missing tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in $11B fraud trial fatally struck by car just days before billionaire’s yacht tragedy

NYPost ^ | 8/21/24 | Chris Nessi

[CFW]

Missing UK tech billionaire Mike Lynch’s associate Stephen Chamberlain, who stood trial for fraud alongside him after the sale of software company Autonomy, died just days before the entrepreneur vanished in a shipwreck off the coast of Sicily.

Chamberlain was out for a run in Cambridgeshire, England, on Saturday when he was struck by a vehicle and died after being rushed to a nearby hospital.

Chamberlain and Lynch, who remains missing after a yacht he was on with his wife and 18-year-old daughter sank Monday, were co-defendants in the decade-long fraud case that arose after the $11 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard.

Both men were acquitted last June.

[CFW]

Things that make you go "Hmmmmm".

[xoxox]

somebody pissed off the cia

[dfwgator]

[Sacajaweau]

Both men were acquited...Sure looks like a hit...revenge....it looks personal.

[CodeToad]

Such things cannot be dismissed as coincidences.

[Grampa Dave]

No ‘Coincidences’ at that level of society!

[dfwgator]

Sounds like something out of “Final Destination”.

[grobdriver]

What a coinkidink!

[PGR88]

Such things cannot be dismissed as coincidences.

But how can a water-spout/tornado sinking the ship one of the men was on, be anything other than an "Act of God?"

[dblshot]

Bond, James Bond.

[Fai Mao]

The yacht was sunk in storm

[Responsibility2nd]

I’m not familiar with this trial, but I am quite sure that if there was a third person who was acquitted, they better get their estate in order. PDQ.

[Jeff Chandler]

[sjmjax]

Someone got possession of the weather control machine in the White House basement! 😳

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s definitely “fringe” or “conspiracy thinking” but some people certainly think that the government has quite a lot of control over the weather.

[Gen.Blather]

“But how can a water-spout/tornado sinking the ship one of the men was on, be anything other than an “Act of God?””

Oh, look! Bad weather. Great! Let’s put to sea. The question is, were the other bodies dead before the boat sank? What was the actual cause of death? Anybody who knows how can sink a boat and blame a storm. I don’t think they’ve recovered the rich guy’s body. Until that happens it looks very suspicious.

[higgmeister]

This is the yacht Bayesian.

[CodeToad]

You think you know all those things as fact? I don’t.

[CodeToad]

You think you know all those things as fact? I don’t.

[CodeToad]

Extremely unlikely a ship that size and maneuverable got hit by a water spout.