Lawyer’s haunting seven-word post before vanishing on Bayesian yacht

A British lawyer missing after a yacht sank off the coast of Sicily shared a haunting message on social media before the incident.

Christopher Morvillo, a partner at Clifford Chance law firm, is one of six people still missing after the British-flagged Bayesian yacht was hit by a water spout and sank on Monday.

In a tragic LinkedIn post written about two months ago, he praised his colleagues for helping Mike Lynch, who is also missing from the yacht, and his business partner in court after being accused of fraud.

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Mike and Steven Chamberlain had been in court in San Francisco relating to the sale of his business, Autonomy, to Hewlett-Packard in 2011 for £8.6billion.

The business partners were found not guilty in court, and Christopher shared his delight at the verdict on LinkedIn just days after their acquittal.

He started by noting this was the first post he had ever shared on the site, before explaining: ‘Following the jury’s swift exoneration of our client, Mike Lynch, and his colleague, Steven Chamberlain, last week in San Francisco, I finally have something to say that I would like others to hear.

‘While I am proud to share the “Litigator of the Week” nod with my friends Brian Heberlig and Gary Lincenberg, this thrilling verdict flows directly from years of painstaking work by an extraordinary cross-border team, and I would like to recognize some of them as the Litigators of the Last Decade.’

Christopher went on to name several of his colleagues, praising them for their work in and out of the courtroom.

He wrapped up the post with seven haunting words: ‘And they all lived happily ever after…’

Christopher is one of six people still believed to be trapped underwater in the yacht’s hull, around 160ft underwater.

Christopher’s wife Neda is also missing, as are Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley International chair Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife Judy.

Divers have struggled to get below deck because they were blocked by debris which had shifted during the violent storm which caused the yacht to sink.

The yacht, which was built in 2008, has one of the world’s tallest aluminium masts which stands at 75 metres tall.

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