Four yacht victims suffocated to death

Lynch guests died in air pocket

- PHIL CARDY

FOUR people who died when a superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily reportedly suffocated in an air pocket as oxygen ran out.

Jonathan Bloomer and wife Judy, along with Chris and Neda Morvillo, were four of the seven people who died when the £30million Bayesian sank.

They were on the trip with British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch when a violent storm struck off Porticello, near Palermo, on August 19.

Mr Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah and the yacht's chef, Recaldo Thomas, also died.