BAYESIAN, SHIPWRECK by INSIDE JOB? Too Many Mysteries and Human Errors. Lynch & VIPs Died in Sleeping: were Drugged?
In the cover image the Bayesian, Mike Lynch beside his daughter Hannah, both died in the disaster
Almost a Farce: All Investigated Free to Leave Italy!
by Carlo Domenico Cristofori
Almost 15 days after the Bayesian tragedy, the entire crew of the sailing ship that sank on the night of August 19 has left Italy. In the hotel in Santa Flavia there is no longer any of the 15 survivors of the Bayesian shipwreck, the sailing ship with 22 people on board that sank in front of Porticello, in the Palermo area.
The last four members of the crew left on Tuesday evening on a private flight to Spain. On board were the captain James Cutfield with his wife Cristina, the engineer officer Tim Parker Eaton, the Myanmar boatswain Htun Myint Kyaw and the Spanish sailor Leo Eppel. The skipper landed in Mallorca where he lives with his wife.
On Tuesday afternoon, Matthew Griffiths, the sailor who was on duty on the bridge the night of the shipwreck, also left Sicily on a scheduled flight to Nice.
Cutfield, Parker Eaton and Griffiths are the three investigated by the Termini Imerese prosecutor’s office for shipwreck and multiple manslaughter. No precautionary measures have been issued against them and they can leave Italy.
A question is a must: Will they ever return to Sicily if they were to be sent to trial for such very serious crimes, thus risking sentences of up to 12 years in prison???
These few lines are enough to understand how a mysterious and terrible tragedy, triggered by an avalanche of human errors, is turning into an investigation very similar to a farce.
Conspiracy theorists and Investigations in the Darkness
On one side there are the extremists of the conspiracy theory who have aired the most disparate hypotheses of the sabotage of the Bayesian sailing ship, despite the fact that not a single trace of an external attack has emerged, due to the dangerous relations with the intelligence of the brutal IT and cybersecurity tycoon Mike Lynch.
On the other hand, there is the chief prosecutor of Termini Imerese, Ambrogio Cartosio, who a few days ago held a press conference from which more mysteries than certainties emerged, as if the Sicilian judiciary wanted to proceed cautiously precisely because the eyes of the British Secret Service MI 5, with which Lynch’s company, Darktrace, collaborated, are fixed on the disaster.
There was also a bitter disappointment for the Sicilian prosecutors. The main suspect. James Cutfield, the 51-year-old captain of the sailing ship Bayesian, registered in the register of suspects for negligent shipwreck and multiple manslaughter, availed himself of the right to remain silent.
But despite this, he had no limitations on his personal freedom and was able to leave Italy with what he knows and did not want to reveal to the judiciary.
On the superyacht that sank on August 19 in the Porticello harbour (near Palermo), together with the British entrepreneur – who was celebrating his acquittal from the trial in which he was accused of having inflated the value of the Aunomy company before selling it to Hewlett Packar – his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, the banker Jonathan Bloomer, president of Morgan Stanley International who had testified in favor of his friend, his wife Elizabeth, the lawyer Chris Morvillo who defended Lynch in the trial and his wife Nada died.
All were trapped in the hull that sank at a depth of 49 meters because, unlike the others, they were sleeping soundly when a violent marine storm hit the sea.
As explained by the judiciary, it was not a tornado (as initially thought) but a descending gust, also defined as a downburst, a meteorological phenomenon consisting of strong descending wind currents with horizontal motion coming out of the advancing front of the storm. The gusts can reach high speeds, close to or above 100 km/h.
Why didn’t they wake up unlike the other 15 passengers who managed to save themselves? The ship’s cook Recaldo Thomas also died with them, but his body was found in the sea while he was trying to save himself.
Only the autopsies, which will begin in the next few days, perhaps, will be able to confirm whether the deceased had consumed alcoholic beverages or were perhaps drugged, given that excluding the hypothesis of external sabotage, the hypothesis of internal sabotage should also remain valid for the investigators (but it is not certain that this will be the case given the global interests in the case) due to the macroscopic and repeated human errors that we are trying to summarize.
There was apparently a serious delay in raising the alarm before the sinking of the Bayesian. The magistrates of the Termini Imerese prosecutor’s office are working on this hypothesis. Investigators are now examining the position of the crew member who was on duty on the bridge that night and had access to the most sophisticated equipment that detects weather alerts and the conditions of the ship.
The news broadcast of the Italian national TV RAI showed the images of the ignition of the signal flare that occurred half an hour after the sinking, which occurred during one of the many storms that hit the Italian coasts over the weekend due to a geomagnetic storm, of dubious origin, but widely announced by various meteorological sites.
From the Raised Sailing Dinghy to the Open Hatch: Too Many Mysteries and Human Errors
Here then is the innumerable series of questions that the press conference of the Termini Imerese Prosecutor’s Office has not yet been able to dispel by binding itself to strict secrecy.
- Why did the Bayesian remain at anchor and not enter the port?
- Why did smaller boats not suffer the same shipwreck?
- Is it true that the sailing dinghy, as emerged from the first rumours on the reconnaissance of the Fire Brigade divers, had been raised to 4 metres and was therefore not at the maximum depth of 7 metres which would have given greater stability to the sailing vessel?
- Is it because, as leaked from the statements of an insurance brokerage firm, the stern hatch (the part from which the superyacht sank) had remained open after the return of the tender with Lynch and friends late at night?
- Who decided to raise the drift and did not check the rear hatch closure?
«The investigators are very cautious and tied to the in-depth investigation. At the moment, the fact remains that, also according to the answers given by Raffaele Macauda, commander of the Palermo Coast Guard, and by the deputy prosecutor Raffaele Cammarano, the black box has not yet been found» adds RAI News.
The Recovery of the SuperYacht and the Hypothesis of Internal Sabotage
«Among the issues that are still unclear is the one relating to the side hatches (closed or open) and what the position of the drift was
» also highlights RAI News.
Among the suspects, in addition to the captain, there could also be his deputy and the man who was on the bridge when the storm and the downburst broke out. The autopsies on the victims’ bodies should begin next week after the notification of the notices of investigation.
«The chain of human errors that would have caused the maritime disaster is emerging: from the partially raised sailing dinghy, which could have played a decisive role in the reduced stability of the hull, to some open hatches, which would have taken on a large mass of water in a short time, favoring the rapid sinking of the sailing ship, to the engines being turned off and to the failure of the system that in these cases should seal the hatches and accesses to the interior» also pointed out RAI News.
Manslaughter Probe into British Tycoon’s Superyacht Disaster
While waiting for the recovery of the Bayesian, the Termini Imerese Prosecutor’s Office was unable (or unwilling) to provide useful information regarding these two crucial elements of the drift and the hatches, the position of which, being mobile by their very nature, could be altered during the complex operations necessary to bring the yacht back to the surface and conduct the subsequent assessments.
Therefore, even if we assume that there may have been sabotage, it must be identified as an INSIDE JOB, a tampering from the inside with many human errors, and not as an unlikely external attack.
This is why the autopsy will be essential to understand whether Lynch and his deceased VIP friends had voluntarily or involuntarily taken altering or narcotic substances.
Suspicions of sabotage are supported by the simultaneous mysterious death in the United Kingdom of Stephen Chamberlain, former top manager of the multinational IT company Autonomy, who was acquitted in the US in a fraud trial last June together with the founder of the same company: Mike Lynch. Chamberlain died while jogging in the English county of Cambridgeshire, run over by a 49-year-old woman.
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