Mike Lynch yacht: body of British tech entrepreneur retrieved by Italian coastguard, reports say – as it happened

• The British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch has been confirmed dead by search and rescue authorities after a yacht sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm on Monday, according to two news agencies.

• Search efforts continue as Lynch’s daughter, Hannah, remains unaccounted for.

• Figures from the UK’s business and technology sectors paid tribute to Mike Lynch.

• Prosecutors in Termini Imerese, who have opened an investigation into the incident, examined videos and photographs taken on the night of the storm by some local residents.

• Assostampa, one of the main unions of Italian journalists, issued a press release accusing the authorities of hindering the work of reporters on the incident.

Assostampa, one of the main unions of Italian journalists, has issued a press release accusing the authorities of hindering the work of reporters on the Bayesian incident in Porticello.

According to the union, the “silence of the authorities is making the work of the press difficult, forcing them to carry out a complex and challenging task in order to verify the news”.

Assostampa urged the prosecutors from Termini Inerese, who launched an investigation into the incident, to inform journalists about the status of their inquiry through a “press conference or a statement”.

Lorenzo Tondo

Prosecutors in Termini Imerese, who have opened an investigation into the incident, have been examining videos and photographs taken on the night of the storm by some local residents.

The coast guard has visited all private homes and public places with surveillance cameras, seizing the clips.

In the footage, the British sailboat Bayesian is seen sinking into the stormy sea within a few minutes.

Fishers in the Sicilian village of Porticello who witnessed the Bayesian superyacht sink rapidly say that the vessel was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

But Italian prosecutors investigating the incident are focusing on whether the captain and crew took all the necessary safety measures to prevent the tragedy.

Lorenzo Tondo

The fifth body recovered this morning reportedly belonged to Mike Lynch, the state news agency Ansa has reported.

The only body still missing is that of Lynch’s eighteen-year-old daughter Hannah, who has not yet been located.

The five bodies have been taken to a morgue in Palermo.

Reuters, citing a source close to the rescue operation, is reporting that the body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved today.

Lynch’s teenage daughter Hannah is still missing, Reuters reported.

Fifth body recovered as authorities aim to locate sixth body today

Lorenzo Tondo

The head of Sicily’s civil protection agency, Salvatore Cocina, told the Guardian this morning that the fifth body inside the yacht has been successfully recovered and transported to Porticello’s pier.

Dive teams from the fire brigade have now resumed the search for the final missing body within the Bayesian vessel this morning.

Italian media, quoting sources from the divers, confirmed the identification of Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, as well as Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy Bloomer among the retrieved victims on Wednesday.

The bodies of Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah are still unaccounted for at this stage. The sixth body has not been located yet.

“We are still working on it,” Giuseppe Petrone, the national director of Italy’s firefighting department divers, told the Guardian. “We should be able to recover the sixth body today,” he added.

A fifth body located by Italian search teams has been recovered from the sunken Bayesian yacht, the PA news agency reported.

The body has been brought to shore.

The UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, his teenage daughter Hannah Lynch, the Morgan Stanley International chair, Jonathan Bloomer, his wife, Judy Bloomer, and the Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife, Neda Morvillo, have been missing since the vessel went down on Monday morning.