News about Robert Baden Powell
Photo of ill-fated Bayesian superyacht minutes before it sunk and killed seven 'shows door on doomed vessel was closed'
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October 3, 2024
A photo of the ill-fated Bayesian superyacht which was taken minutes before it sank appears to show that a door on the vessel was closed, after claims it had been left open. The snap, taken by a passenger on board a neighbouring yacht, contradicts allegations that the crew mistakenly left a door open and allowed water to flood the boat. It was taken 14 minutes before the Bayesian went down during a freak storm off the coast of Sicily - killing seven people, including the British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah. Three crew members are being investigated by prosecutors in Sicily after they were accused of leaving the large door open on the rear port side of the 56-metre yacht. The flooding is alleged to have started after fierce winds and waves drove water through the door in the hull.
Captain of Bayesian superyacht is investigated for 'manslaughter and shipwreck' after tragedy which left seven dead
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August 26, 2024
Italian prosecutors have begun an official investigation of James Cutfield, captain of the superyacht belonging to British tech magnate Mike Lynch that sank off Sicily last week, killing its owner and six others, Italian media is reporting. Being placed under investigation in Italy does not imply guilt and does not mean formal charges will necessarily follow. A 51-year old New Zealand national, Cutfield is being investigated for manslaughter and shipwreck, the dailies La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera said. While the yacht had been hit by a very sudden meteorological event, it was plausible that crimes of multiple manslaughter and causing a shipwreck through negligence had been committed, the head of the public prosecutor's office of Termini Imerese, Ambrogio Cartosio, said on Saturday.
Did the crew flee? Questions grow over fate of Bayesian superyacht after all but one staff escaped tragedy which killed six passengers - as manslaughter probe begins
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August 25, 2024
Six passengers - including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah - died alongside chef Recaldo Thomas after the British-flagged pleasure yacht capsized and came to rest on its side 164ft below in the early hours of Monday. Italian prosecutors revealed the victims were unable to escape as they may have been asleep. They had scrambled to one side of the ship in search of air pockets in a desperate attempt for survival, with the Oxford-bound Hannah dying alone in a cabin. At the Termini Imerese Courthouse in Palermo, chief prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio did not rule out homicide charges. One line of inquiry being pursued by prosecutors is whether the nine surviving crew members raised the alarm before escaping. Mr Cartosio vowed to establish each crew members' responsibility as he warned: 'For me, it is probable that offences were committed - that it could be a case of manslaughter.' He said there were 'behaviours that were not perfectly in order with regard to the responsibility everybody had', before adding: 'There could be in fact the question of homicide. But this is the beginning of the inquiry, we cannot exclude anything at all.'
Revealed: The tragic final moments of the victims of the superyacht disaster - as divers reveal the heartbreaking scenes they found when trying to retrieve the bodies
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August 24, 2024
Passengers on the doomed Bayesian superyacht scrambled desperately for the last remaining air pockets as the vessel sank to the seabed, investigators believe. But while five of the victims' bodies were recovered from one cabin, the youngest, 18-year-old Hannah Lynch, was found alone in a bedroom two doors away, it emerged yesterday. The horrific last moments aboard the sinking £30m ship were pieced together at a crowded 90-minute press conference yesterday (SAT) hosted by the prosecutors who have launched a manslaughter and shipwreck investigation without specifying suspects.
Superyacht sinking investigators admit they failed to give surviving crew drink and drugs tests - as questions surround Bayesian's fate that saw all but one staff escape while six passengers died including Hannah Lynch, 18, and tech tycoon father Mike
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August 24, 2024
Six passengers - including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter Hannah - died alongside one member of the crew when the British-flagged pleasure yacht capsized and came to rest on its side 50 metres below in the early hours of Monday. A press conference held earlier today after search efforts concluded raised more questions than answers as investigators admitted they were still piecing together how exactly the ship came to sink - and why so many passengers died. Italian prosecutors have admitted they did not conduct alcohol and drug testing on the vessel's crew - all but one of whom survived - because they needed treatment and were in shock. They have vowed to question the sailors intensively.
A twist of fate and a freak of nature: ROBERT HARDMAN reveals a chain of events experts blame for superyacht tragedy. But why were the crew alone in life raft without their passengers?
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August 21, 2024
Even in the dwindling twilight, the divers and the patrol boats are still out there off the Sicilian coast as I write, lending the tiniest credence to that slenderest of hopes: might someone, in some miraculous air pocket, still be alive? It is now two days since the 183ft British superyacht, the Bayesian, capsized in seconds and sank in 150ft of water in the early hours of Monday. Six people are missing, including the owner, British tech guru Mike Lynch, and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah. Yet, divers have since reported finding a hull still apparently intact and lying on its starboard side with heavy detritus - furniture and so on - blocking their path to some of the cabins within. In the absence of bodies, one expert raised the dim possibility that someone might still be trapped in a submerged pocket of air.
The Browns have been pulled into a wokening row after 'God' was taken from a camp song's lyrics
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March 4, 2023
The changes were detailed in a blog on the movement's official website, meaning that although songs were a "significant piece" of its past, some could have "references that have been harmful to people." In those situations, the blog suggested that "there might need to be updates so everyone can participate," and that there are examples of making them 'inclusive for everybody."