SINKING...WAS IT MANSLAUGHTER?

Five revealed to have sought air pocket in one cabin as probe starts into blame

- PATRICK HILL and PHIL CARDY

ITALIAN police are to investigate whether the victims of the superyacht sinking were unlawfully killed.

Seven people died, including tech tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, when the luxury vessel Bayesian sank off Sicily.

Chief prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio said officials were looking at potential crimes of "shipwreck and manslaughter".

Officials also revealed yesterday that of the six trapped as the yacht sank to 160ft (50m), five had been found in one cabin.