London, 22 August 2024 (PA Media/dpa/MIA) - The body of British technology tycoon Mike Lynch has been recovered after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily, but his 18-year-old daughter reportedly remains missing.

The Italian Coastguard confirmed to the PA news agency that the sixth and final person yet to be found was a woman.

Lynch, his daughter, and two couples - Jonathan and Judy Bloomer, and Neda and Chris Morvillo - were lost when the Bayesian sank early on Monday.

The body of the fifth person recovered from the yacht’s wreckage was returned in a blue body bag to the port of Porticello on Thursday morning.

Of the 22 passengers and crew on board, 15 – including Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares – were rescued after escaping on to a lifeboat.

The body of Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas, who was working as a chef on the superyacht, was recovered at the scene of the sinking on Monday.

The boat trip was a celebration of Lynch’s acquittal in a fraud case in the United States.

The businessman, who founded software giant Autonomy in 1996, was cleared in June of carrying out a massive fraud relating to its $11 billion sale to US company Hewlett Packard.

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