The widow of billionaire tech boss Mike Lynch has told Italian prosecutors she was ‘not worried, just curious’ when she awoke shortly before their superyacht Bayesian sank during a storm last summer.
Angela Bacares, who survived the tragedy off the coast of Sicily – which killed her husband and their 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, along with five others – has described the events of that night for the first time.
In a statement issued ahead of the first anniversary of the sinking on August 19, she said she woke around 4am after feeling the £30million vessel ‘moving up and down and swaying’, and went to an upper deck to find the captain, James Cutfield.
Despite Italian coastguards issuing their interim report last week, which blamed 52-year-old New Zealander Mr Cutfield and the crew for the disaster, Ms Bacares, 58, said she had always felt ‘reassured’ by the crew in bad weather.
She revealed that the boat had been caught in a ‘really bad storm’ near Naples two weeks before without incident.
