British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch among missing after yacht sinks off Sicily

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is missing after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily, BBC News has confirmed.

Sources close to the matter have also confirmed that his wife, Angela Bacares, has been rescued.

BBC Verify has been looking at corporate records of the Bayesian and have found that the luxury yacht is tied to the wife of Mike Lynch, a British businessman who is reportedly among the missing.

According to Equasis, a maritime data service, the Bayesian is owned by Revtom, a firm registered in the Isle of Man.

The company’s latest annual statement was filed in April with the Isle of Man’s Companies Registry. In the statement, Angela Bacares is named as the sole legal owner, with an address registered in London.

Bacares was among the 15 people rescued, a source tells the AFP news agency.

We can now bring you some more details about the search operation that continues around the wreckage of the Bayesian.

As a reminder, six people are still missing after the luxury yacht sank off the coast of Porticello earlier this morning.

Francesco Venuto, the spokesperson for Sicily’s civil protection agency, tells the BBC that they “think [the corpses] must be there [in the boat]”.

“We’ve been searching all day with helicopters and boats, we’ve found nothing. That wouldn’t make sense, in this conditions we should have found something by now,” Venuto adds.

One death has been confirmed by officials so far.