Three suspects at large after shooting at Toronto pub leaves a dozen injured
Three suspects are at large after a mass shooting at the opening night of a pub in Toronto that left a dozen people injured, Canadian police say.
The shooting at the Piper Arms pub near Scarborough town centre in eastern Toronto happened at 22:39pm on Friday local time (03:39 GMT).
Authorities initially said that six of the 12 people injured, aged from their 20s to mid-50s, had non-life threatening gunshot wounds. Toronto paramedics, however, told Canada's CP24 Media it was a 'dynamic situation' and that some injuries were critical.
Police said the three suspects were male, with one of them wearing a black balaclava seen fleeing the scene in a silver car. They said they are using all resources available to find and arrest those responsible.
The suspects 'walked into the bar. They produced their guns, and they opened fire indiscriminately on the people sitting inside the bar', according to Supt Paul MacIntyre of Toronto's organised crime enforcement branch.
'I'm happy to report by the grace of God that there's been no fatalities… extremely lucky.
'The motive for this shooting right now remains unclear. We're chasing down all leads.
'I can tell you this was a brazen and reckless act of violence that's really shaken our community and the city itself.
'It looks like we had a mass-casualty shooting inside a pub. When you walk in, it's kind of eerie. The drinks are still on the table. The food is still on the table.'
When asked if the shooting may be connected to the recent tow truck-related shootings, he said: 'We're open to that, but we're not sure yet.'
Toronto's mayor, Olivia Chow, wrote on X: 'I am deeply troubled to hear reports of a shooting at a pub in Scarborough.
'This is an early and ongoing investigation - police will provide further details. My thoughts are with the victims and their families.'
Armed police and several ambulances and fire engines were on the scene as the pursuit of the suspects continued into the early hours.
Canada has a significantly lower rate of firearm homicides than the US at 0.6 per 100,000 people, compared with 4.5 per 100,000, according to 2021 data from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.
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Russia recruited a teenage spy. His arrest led to a crypto money trail
REUTERS/Illustration/Catherine Tai Russia recruited a teenage spy. His arrest led to a crypto money trail A REUTERS SPECIAL REPORT Russia has resorted to using untrained spies after its diplomats and operatives were expelled from Europe in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The case against a Canadian teenager now jailed in Poland reveals how Moscow conducts the operations, and how cryptocurrency funds them. By MARI SAITO, ANNA KOPER, ANTON ZVEREV, FILIPP LEBEDEV and POLINA NIKOLSKAYA Filed June 12, 2025, 10 a.m. GMT WARSAW, POLAND The Canadian teenager was getting anxious. It was May 2024, and he was in Copenhagen, running out of money after leaving Moscow a week earlier. He'd booked the cheapest room he could find in the Danish capital, but the hostel was still more expensive than he'd expected. The teen, Laken Pavan, opened Telegram to type out a message to his handler in Russia's Federal Security Service, which runs the country's spy operations and is known by its acronym FSB. 'Are you able to send BTC today?' Pavan wrote to the man, using the shorthand for bitcoin. Pavan knew the man only as 'Slon,' or elephant in Russian. The man had been assigned to the 17-year-old by FSB officers who had recruited the teen just weeks prior in Russian-occupied Donetsk, according to court documents reviewed by Reuters. 'I have a big problem there are no Bitcoin ATMs in Denmark,' Pavan explained in English. He'd checked around and it would be simpler in Poland, Pavan told his handler. Things were cheaper and he could more easily turn cryptocurrency into cash there. 'Check, I've sent you the first batch of money,' Slon replied. A minute earlier, Pavan's bitcoin wallet showed it had received about $130 worth of the cryptocurrency. Pavan soon responded with a photo of his boarding pass for a flight to Warsaw. A couple days later, intoxicated and suddenly fearful, Pavan asked the receptionist of his budget hotel in Warsaw to call the police. Once officers arrived, he confessed to working with the FSB and planning to pass information about the Polish military to his Russian handler, the court documents show. The Canadian pleaded guilty to charges of helping Russian intelligence and was sentenced in December 2024. Pavan, who turned 18 a few weeks after his arrest, is now serving a 20-month sentence in a Polish prison on the outskirts of Radom, a city 100 kilometres south of the capital. There is no indication from the court documents that he ever obtained or passed along any sensitive information to the Russians. The term he received is even less than the usual 5-year minimum because of his age and because he admitted guilt and cooperated with the investigation, prosecutors said in a post-sentencing statement. At a time when Europe is in a heightened state of alarm over what security agencies across the continent call Russia's 'hybrid war' of sabotage and espionage, Reuters found an emerging trend: Moscow is increasingly recruiting teenagers and complete novices. The hybrid campaign comes as Ukraine and Russia try to strengthen negotiating positions in sporadic peace talks, which have so far produced no breakthroughs. Russian bombing attacks on Ukraine have intensified. So has pressure from Ukraine, including a surprise attack on Russian bombers after what Ukraine's president said was months of work by intelligence operatives working inside Russia. Since the full-scale invasion in 2022, dozens of teenagers in Ukraine and at least 12 teens elsewhere in Europe – in Germany, Poland, Britain and Lithuania – have been arrested in Russia-linked cases of sabotage and spying. Pavan's case, reported in detail for the first time, sheds light on these covert Russian operations and their cryptocurrency trail. The answer to why Moscow has resorted to using untrained agents lies in the mass expulsion of Russian diplomats and operatives from Europe after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. To plug the hole in their operations, Russian intelligence services have shifted to recruiting common criminals or individuals with little spycraft experience, said a senior NATO official. His statement echoed comments last year from Germany's domestic security service. Two European security experts said teenagers are recruited because they're vulnerable, low-cost, and often in need of money. 'These are, in many cases, not trained intelligence professionals,' the NATO official said on condition of anonymity to describe the clandestine operations. The official expects more Russian hybrid warfare, which combines physical warfare with non-military tactics used to undermine an adversary's security and sow distrust and confusion. 'One of the main objectives of the Russian hybrid campaign is to undercut support for Ukraine, and that is both politically, in terms of creating disquiet amongst the population, but also very practically, in terms of the actual concrete support going to Ukraine,' he said. 'I said, who's paying for this trip because I wanted to know what was going on.' Andelaine Nelson, Laken Pavan's mother Reuters reviewed more than 1,400 pages of Polish court documents in Pavan's case, which includes all of the messages between the Canadian teen and his FSB handler – more than 300 in total. The messages, as well as Pavan's testimony to prosecutors, provide a rare, unfiltered view of the sometimes-haphazard nature of such operations, where the FSB is using a mixture of threats and lukewarm incentives. Neither the Kremlin nor the FSB responded to requests for comment from Reuters about Pavan's case, Russia's recruiting tactics of young people or its use of bitcoin to fund operations. Polish prosecutors in Pavan's case also declined to answer questions about the case. Requests to the Polish detention center in Radom to speak with Pavan went unanswered. The bitcoin transactions in the court documents allowed Reuters, with the help of blockchain analysts, to trace the payments, revealing transfers across several wallets. The analysis identified one large cryptocurrency wallet that financed the two wallets which paid bitcoin directly to Pavan. That big wallet has processed over $600 million since its creation in June 2022, four months after the start of the war in Ukraine, the analysis found. Reuters could not ascertain who operates the large upstream wallet. European officials have pointed to Russia for sabotage including cyberattacks and arson, attempted assassinations, as well as espionage in countries allied with Ukraine. Moscow denies involvement and has called such allegations ' empty ' and unproven. Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, known as the SVR, did not comment directly on Pavan's case and accused Europe of blindly supporting 'the Kyiv regime's terrorist methods.' Ukraine has similarly recruited youths in Russia for sabotage there, primarily arson, according to Russia's FSB and the Russian Investigative Committee, the federation's main investigative authority. There is no indication those operations have targeted Russian allies, and Ukraine did not respond to requests for comment on the allegations. "]] "]] "]] As a child in Parksville on Canada's western coast, Pavan was a quiet boy obsessed with the Canadian military, said his mother, Andelaine Nelson. He idolized his father, who served in Afghanistan and later worked as a combat engineer. She remembers her son researching his ancestry for hints of military service. 'He's been lining up marbles and doing little combat things since he could sit in a highchair,' she said. As a child, he frequently accompanied his father to military events around Canada and abroad, she said. Nelson and Pavan's father split when he was a toddler, and her contact with her son was sporadic for most of his childhood as his father had custody. Their separation, among other family issues, had made her son increasingly angry, Nelson said. Contacted through his lawyer, Pavan's father in Canada declined to comment about his son's case. At the 75th anniversary celebration of D-Day on France's Juno Beach in 2019, Pavan, who was then turning 13, can be seen grinning next to former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a photo posted by a local news site at the time. Pavan told prosecutors he joined the Canadian reserves in 2022, when he was 16. Nelson said her son's dream was to work as a combat engineer like his father. Canada's military confirmed that Pavan was a reservist from July 2022 to October 2024. When the war started in Ukraine in 2022, Pavan at first expressed no interest, Nelson said. The court records don't indicate why he came to embrace Russia's cause. Pavan and his mother fully reconnected in 2023. By the end of the year, he was debating strangers online, where he was increasingly supportive of Russia, court records show. In dozens of public Telegram exchanges in pro-Moscow groups from December 2023 through spring 2024 seen by Reuters, Pavan voiced disappointment about his experience as a reservist in the Canadian army and said he believed Russia's war was 'justified.' By March 2024, he mentioned he had a visa for Russia, and suggested another user join the Russian military for citizenship. According to chat logs recovered by Polish prosecutors, Pavan was also messaging moderators of Russian propaganda channels and English-speakers in Russia about fighting for Russian forces in occupied Donetsk. Pavan's mother said she knew nothing about his plans to travel to Russia. 'I had no idea he was even gone,' she told Reuters, only later hearing from her son that he was traveling around Europe with friends. John Kingman Phillips, a lawyer for Pavan's family, said Canadian authorities should have been aware of his plans to travel to Russia and Donetsk and stopped the minor from traveling. Canada's Border Services Agency said citizens have the right to leave the country, although high-risk people could be flagged. Canada's Global Affairs Department said it was aware of the arrest and sentencing of a citizen in Poland but declined to comment on the specifics of Pavan's case. On April 16, 2024, Pavan flew from Vancouver to Moscow via Istanbul and hired a driver to take him to occupied Donetsk. There, he crashed in the basement headquarters of the Interbrigades, a volunteer group, which according to the organisation's social media account was set up in 2014 to gather mercenaries to fight for Russia in Donetsk and the neighboring Ukrainian region of Luhansk and to organize humanitarian projects for civilians. The group's name refers to the Spanish Civil War, when leftists from many countries arrived in Spain to fight for the International Brigades against Francisco Franco's rebels. Pavan was two months shy of 18, fair-haired and lanky. He had inquired about enlisting but was told he had to first turn 18 under Russian law, according to a message he sent a foreign fighter from Spain. For about a week, he volunteered around Donetsk with the Interbrigades and helped rebuild a school. Wilmer Puello-Mota, an American former airman who fled to Russia after being charged with possession of child sexual abuse material, told Reuters he encountered Pavan in Donetsk, where the Canadian tried unsuccessfully to join the Russian army. Puello-Mota, who described the U.S. allegations against him as unfair, is now serving in Russia's military. 'Everybody he talked to down there, we told him, go home,' said Puello-Mota, whose contacts with Pavan appear in the court documents. He said Pavan did nothing more than volunteer for the Interbrigades for a day or two, as the court documents also indicated. Puello-Mota said the espionage allegations made by Poland against the teen made no sense. In late April, Pavan was out drinking in Donetsk when he was arrested. He told Polish prosecutors he was questioned about his family and friends at the police station by men who said they were from the FSB. The men put a bag over his head and drove him to a second location, where they interrogated him again, asking also about his travel plans around Europe. None of them gave Pavan their names. Eventually, he told prosecutors, he was taken to the Central hotel in Donetsk, a tall building with a glass facade in the heart of the occupied city. There he was grilled repeatedly by a group of at least six FSB officers and one man who said he was from Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service. After several days, they gave him instructions. After returning to Europe, Pavan was to lose his passport to conceal his trip to Russia and begin working for Russia's security services. 'This work was to consist of traveling around Europe and taking photos. In Ukraine, on the other hand, I was to enlist in the Ukrainian army; I was to receive detailed instructions for this later, after arriving in Ukraine,' Pavan told Polish prosecutors, according to a copy of his testimony seen by Reuters. The teen did not speak Russian, Ukrainian or Polish. The Russian men used a combination of threats and inducements to get him to agree, Pavan told Polish authorities. In exchange for his work, he'd get Russian citizenship and an apartment in any Russian city of his choosing. If he didn't comply, he would be killed, he told prosecutors. They then introduced Pavan to Slon, his FSB handler. Slon, who appeared to be in his 30s, never gave Pavan his real name. Slon did not respond to calls or to messages sent by Reuters via Telegram. Reuters was unable to contact him on his fake Instagram account. Pavan began messaging Slon on Telegram as he prepared to leave Donetsk. At first, their messages focused mainly on food. Slon's were sometimes in stilted English, as if he were using a translation app. C – Slon LP – Laken Pavan Later, Pavan shared a link to a website about how the British military was no longer accepting soldiers from Commonwealth countries like Canada. It is not clear why he shared the link. The same day in May, Slon sent Pavan details of his flight from Moscow to Istanbul. According to the messages, Slon drove with Pavan to the bus terminal in Donetsk, where Pavan boarded a bus to Moscow. Pavan later told Polish police he was given $2,000 in cash before leaving Donetsk. On May 14, Pavan arrived in Copenhagen via Istanbul. It's not clear why the Danish capital was chosen as his destination. Slon and Pavan messaged daily, with the FSB handler encouraging the teenager to apply for a new Canadian passport, buy a new phone, and set up a fake Instagram account for photos of his travels. Slon also created a fake profile for himself, picking the username '@ and uploaded a photo of a blonde woman as his profile picture. Reuters identified the woman as a 20-year-old Donetsk teacher named Anastasia Protsenko, who told Reuters she was unaware her image was being used for the account and knew no one named Slon. In Copenhagen, Pavan messaged Slon about the people he encountered. Slon seemed particularly interested in Pavan's new friend, an American defense contractor who was traveling through Copenhagen. He encouraged Pavan to continue talking to the American without making him suspicious. But Pavan's money was running out fast in Denmark. He messaged his mother in Canada for funds. 'He told me he had no money, that he hadn't been paid,' Nelson said. Until then, she thought Pavan was traveling with friends. "I said, who's paying for this trip because I wanted to know what was going on.' She said her son never answered her question. After days of Pavan's pestering, Slon finally transferred bitcoins to him on May 20. The next day, he sent more. Pavan's bitcoin wallet shows he received bitcoin worth more than $500 from two wallets on May 20 and 21 last year. In testimony, he confirmed these payments came from Slon's bitcoin wallets. Each time, Pavan said, Slon told the teen his own account needed replenishing first. At the request of Reuters, Global Ledger and Recoveris, both firms with expertise in tracing crypto movements, tracked the two bitcoin payments Pavan received using the wallet addresses listed in Polish court documents. Reuters confirmed the path of the payments. Global Ledger said the payments to Pavan's wallet were made after the two wallets Pavan identified as Slon's in court documents received a similar amount of bitcoins from two intermediaries. Those, in turn, received bitcoins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from a large wallet set up in June 2022, Global Ledger said. Recoveris also traced the payments back to the large wallet. Recoveris also noted that outgoing transfers from the 'cluster' of wallets identified through Pavan's case took place during Moscow business hours. In three years, the large wallet has processed bitcoins equivalent to $600 million. Global Ledger said during that period, the wallet has transferred bitcoins to a crypto exchange called Garantex, which has been sanctioned by the European Union and the United States for its close association with sanctioned Russian banks. In March, the United States, Germany and Finland took down the online infrastructure used by Garantex. The wallet was active as of June. Reuters could not determine the ownership of the large wallet or the two intermediary wallets that paid into wallets Pavan identified as Slon's, or whether any were used in other sabotage or espionage cases. Global Ledger said the large wallet appeared to be funded by a major mining pool and a custodial service. 'Transactions from wallets linked to the FSB followed a structured laundering pattern, involving fund splitting, mixing with larger sums, and routing through unconnected deposit wallets,' Global Ledger wrote in its report for Reuters, noting methods commonly used to obfuscate the source and use of funds. Related content Insight: Sex toys and exploding cosmetics: anatomy of a 'hybrid war' on the West Russia-linked propaganda campaign pushes to undercut German support for Ukraine How one man became a Ukrainian traitor and Russian spy Ago Ambur, who until January this year served as the head of Estonia's Cybercrime Bureau and now works as chief operating officer at the cyberintelligence firm Glazer Technologies, said the wallets and transaction patterns alone were not enough to indicate that Russia's special services were behind them. 'Attributing a crypto activity to an adversary can be similar to finding a knife at a crime scene. It might match the type the adversary uses, but without fingerprints, DNA or surveillance footage, it remains just a clue,' he told Reuters. Pavan and Slon's last contact was on May 22, 2024, a day after the teen's arrival in Warsaw. In their final exchange, Slon reminded Pavan to apply for a new Canadian passport, and suggested he reach out to his father and his old military commander. The messages did not explain why. Twelve hours later, Pavan was in Polish police custody. Phillips, the lawyer for Pavan's family, said their aim is now to get the teen home to Canada to serve out his sentence. Pavan's family are 'devastated,' Phillips said. If Pavan is not granted early release, he is expected to complete his sentence in January 2026. Recently, Nelson looked online and saw thousands of horrific messages under Reddit and other social media posts about her son's case, calling him an idiot or worse. These people don't know anything about her son, Nelson says, and have no idea how he was detained and threatened by Russian agents. She has tried raising money so Pavan can get on his feet when he returns. 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Metro
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The deadliest plane crashes in UK aviation history
An Air India plane carrying 242 people bound for London has crashed near Ahmedabad airport shortly after taking off. On board the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner were 53 British, 169 Indian, seven Portuguese and one Canadian nationals. Fire and thick black smoke was seen shortly after the aricraft went down near student accommodation at a nearby medical university at 1.39pm local time. Follow Metro's blog for live coverage and updates from the Air India crash Crashes like this are rare – but when they happen, the consequences are catastrophic. Below, we look back at some of the worst air disasters in UK aviation history. Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Dumfries and Galloway while cruising at 31,000 feet on December 21, 1988, crashing onto the town of Lockerbie. All 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground were killed when the Boeing 747, flying from Heathrow to New York, was bombed. The explosion tore a 20-inch hole in the fuselage, causing the aircraft to disintegrate instantly. Among the vitims were 35 American students flying home for Christmas and the crash remains the deadliest terrorist attack on UK soil. A joint investigation by Scottish police and the FBI concluded the bombing was carried out by Libyan Intelligence Services in revenge for the 1986 US bombing of Tripoli. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was later convicted for placing the bomb in a suitcase disguised with clothing and an umbrella. A British European Airways Trident crashed shortly after takeoff from Heathrow en route to Brussels on June 18, 1972, killing all 118 people on board. Three minutes into the flight, the plane entered a deep stall. Investigators found that the crew had failed to maintain sufficient speed and did not properly deploy the aircraft's high-lift devices. The cockpit voice recorder captured an argument between the captain and co-pilot moments before the crash. Weather conditions were also poor, with turbulence, strong crosswinds, heavy rain and low cloud. A Canadair C-4 Argonaut operated by British Midland Airways crashed near the centre of Stockport on June 4, 1967, killing 72 of the 84 people on board. The aircraft was returning from Palma de Mallorca and came down just a few miles short of its destination, Manchester Airport. Two of its four engines failed due to fuel starvation caused by a design flaw in the fuel system. Investigators also cited pilot fatigue as a contributing factor, noting that the flight crew were likely operating under significant exhaustion at the time of the crash. On August 22, 1985, a British Airtours Boeing 737-236 bound for Corfu aborted takeoff at Manchester Airport after control staff warned one of its engines was on fire. Passengers started evacuating, but the fire spread rapidly. All deaths were caused by the inhalation of toxic smoke. Most of their bodies were found near the overwing exit. Fifty-five of the 137 people on board were killed. The disaster led to sweeping aviation reforms, including fire-resistant seat materials, improved cabin wall and ceiling panels, floor lighting for evacuation, better on-board extinguishers, and revised emergency procedures. On January 5, 1969, an Ariana Afghan Airlines flight from Kabul crashed into a house during its final approach to Gatwick Airport, killing 50 people – 48 on board and two on the ground The aircraft descended too quickly after a flap adjustment caused the nose to pitch downward. By the time the flight crew recognised the error, it was too late to recover. The plane struck the home of William and Ann Jones, who died in the crash – but their baby miraculously survived. Fourteen people on the flight, including the captain, first officer and flight engineer, also lived. On January 8, 1989, British Midland Flight 92 from Belfast to Heathrow crashed short of the runway at East Midlands Airport during an attempted emergency landing, killing 47 of the 126 people on board. The Boeing 737 had been cruising at 35,000 feet when a fan blade on the left engine fractured due to metal fatigue. The crew mistakenly shut down the working engine, and moments before impact a final announcement instructed passengers to 'prepare for crash landing.' The plane struck the ground, bounced over the M1, and tore through trees and a lamppost. Investigators found that the aircraft's new engines had been tested only in labs, not under real-flight conditions. Both pilots were seriously injured and later dismissed by the airline amid criticism of cockpit decision-making. An Iberia Airlines flight from Malaga to Heathrow flew into the southern slope of Blackdown Hill in West Sussex on November 4, 1967. More Trending The plane was on approach to Heathrow when it clipped trees before skidding across a field and killing 88 grazing sheep. Investigators could not find out why the plane did not stick to its assigned flight level and audio recordings showed no evidence of any failure in the aircraft. A theory remains that the flight crew misread their altitude meter, which warns pilots when the altitude falls below 10,000 feet. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: British man who was sat at front of plane believed to be the only survivor of Air India crash MORE: Boeing plane safety: Should you be worried about flying on its aircraft? MORE: Everything we know about the Ahmedabad to London Air India AI171 plane crash
North Wales Chronicle
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Mike Lynch's sunken superyacht to be lifted in late June as debris is found
Maritime and investigatory authorities in Sicily approved the final recovery plan following surveys of the seabed and wreck. The stern section of the Bayesian will be temporarily lifted using Hebo Lift 10 — one of Europe's most powerful sea cranes — allowing crews to attach the straps needed to raise the entire yacht later this month. The vessel is expected to be brought to the surface on or around June 26, subject to no further delays, it is understood. It was originally expected to be raised last month but salvage efforts were delayed after a diver died during underwater work on May 9, prompting greater use of remote-controlled equipment. To lift the 56-metre (184ft) vessel, eight steel straps will be attached beneath it, with four messenger lines already fed under the front. The 72-metre mast will be removed using precision cutting tools and the yacht will be rolled upright and lifted using a custom steel cable system. A full underwater survey around the wreck using remote-operated equipment found 17 possible pieces of debris, including a life raft casing and deck furniture, which have been recovered and brought to nearby Termini Imerese – a town where Italian prosecutors investigating the sinking are based. Marcus Cave of British firm TMC Marine, which is overseeing the salvage efforts, said: 'Following detailed engineering assessment and discussions with the authorities, the works on site are now progressing towards the recovery of the wreck. 'The salvage teams will now hopefully be able to make more systematic progress in preparations for the ultimate safe recovery of Bayesian, whilst ensuring that safety of those working on this very complex lifting and recovery operation and environmental protection continue to be prioritised.' Billionaire Mr Lynch, 59, and his daughter Hannah, 18, were among seven people who died when the Bayesian sank off the coast of the Italian island on August 19. About 70 specialist personnel had been mobilised to the fishing village Porticello from across Europe to work on the recovery operation, which began last month. Inquest proceedings in the UK are looking at the deaths of Mr Lynch and his daughter, as well as Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer, 70, and his wife, Judy Bloomer, 71, who were all British nationals. Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) investigators said in an interim report that the Bayesian was knocked over by 'extreme wind'. The yacht had a vulnerability to winds but the owner and crew would not have known, the report said. The others who died in the sinking were US lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo, and Canadian-Antiguan national Recaldo Thomas, who was working as a chef on the vessel. Fifteen people, including Mr Lynch's wife, Angela Bacares, were rescued. Mr Lynch and his daughter were said to have lived in the vicinity of London and the Bloomers lived in Sevenoaks in Kent. The tycoon founded software giant Autonomy in 1996 and was cleared in June last year of carrying out a massive fraud over the sale of the firm to Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2011. The boat trip was a celebration of his acquittal in the case in the US.
