Yacht tragedy: Co-accused in Mike Lynch fraud trial died just days earlier

A man who was a co-defendant in Mike Lynch’s US fraud trial died after a collision with a car in the UK at the weekend, it has been revealed.

Stephen Chamberlain, the former vice president of the finance company Autonomy, was knocked down while jogging in Cambridgeshire on Saturday morning.

Mr Chamberlain and Mr Lynch were cleared of fraud and conspiracy in the US in June for allegedly scheming to inflate the value of Autonomy, then Britain’s largest software firm, before it was sold to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011.

Mr Lynch is one of six people missing after a yacht sank in bad weather off the coast of Sicily on Monday – his 18-year-old daughter is also missing.

Full story: https://news.sky.com/story/mike-lynchs-co-defendant-dies-after-being-hit-by-car-days-before-yacht-sinking-13199927

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