Manslaughter investigation launched into Mike Lynch yacht deathsSource: PA
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00:00It has been ascertained that on board the boat there were 22 people,
00:07including the crew and the tourists who had been transported.
00:12Of these, 7 had disappeared.
00:17The 7 missing people were found in the way that I am telling you.
00:21The first one was found at sea
00:25and the cook of the crew,
00:31whose name was Thomas Recaldo, of Antigua nationality.
00:38After that, we are missing from the appeal 6 passengers
00:44whose useless identity, which we do not hide,
00:47is certainly one of the main elements of the international interest,
00:52I would say worldwide, that there is on the story.
00:55These 6 bodies, immediately it was understood that they were hardly able to be saved,
01:03were gradually recovered.
01:06On Wednesday the 21st, 4 bodies were recovered,
01:13namely that of the banker William Blumer and his wife,
01:22Jonathan William Blumer, that of the lawyer Christopher Morvillo and his wife.
01:31All 4 were recovered inside the sailboat,
01:39sunk about 50 meters deep.
01:45Then, on the 22nd, the body of the entrepreneur Michael Lynch was also recovered.
01:56And on the 23rd, yesterday,
02:01the body of Michael Lynch's 18-year-old daughter was also recovered.
02:10Thanks to her angelic face, I think, everyone knew when they saw her.
02:17I officially inform you that the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Iberia
02:25has written a petition to the State against Ignoni,
02:32assuming the crimes of hit-and-run and hit-and-run homicide,
02:40but we are only in an initial phase of the investigation.
02:46In general, the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Iberia
02:49is never happy to give this information in this phase,
02:53precisely because the developments and the investigations could be of any kind.
02:59We do not exclude anything.