Co-defendant of ‘UK’s Bill Gates’ dies in hospital after being hit by car days before Mike Lynch went missing on yacht

MISSING British billionaire tycoon Mike Lynch’s ex colleague and co-defendant in his US fraud trial has died in hospital after being hit my a car, it is claimed.

Stephen Chamberlain was fatally struck by the vehicle on Saturday, just hours before Lynch, 59, disappeared after a yacht he was sailing on sunk.

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British technology tycoon Mike Lynch is missing after the luxury yacht, Bayesian sank in bad weather off the coast of Sicily[/caption]

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Italian firefighters transport a body bag amid the search[/caption]

The vessel was caught in a freak whirlwind off the coast of Sicily in the early hours of Monday, with six people still missing, including the entrepreneur and his daughter Hannah, 18.

Chamberlain, Autonomy’s vice president of finance alongside chief executive Lynch, was hit by a car in Cambridgeshire on Saturday morning and was placed on life support.