Chamberlain Dies, Lynch Missing After Yacht Sinks

Stephen Chamberlain, former vice president of finance at Autonomy and co-defendant with Mike Lynch in a recent high-profile fraud trial, died after being struck by a car in Cambridgeshire, England. This incident occurred just days before Lynch went missing when his 184-foot luxury yacht, Bayesian, sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm. Chamberlain and Lynch had been acquitted in June of charges related to inflating Autonomy's value before its $11 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard in 2011. Lynch, his daughter Hannah, and four others remain unaccounted for following the yacht disaster. The timing of these events has sparked conspiracy theories, though no direct connections have been substantiated.