Mike Lynch Yacht crew member says he 'hit walls' trying to save people

A crew member who was on board British tech magnate Mike Lynch’s ‘Bayesian’ yacht when it sank off the coast of Porticello, Sicily, has spoken candidly about the incident this month.

Matthew Griffiths, a British sailor who was on watch on the ship when it sank, told prosecutors he woke the yacht’s captain because “the wind was blowing 20 knots,” Italian news agency ANSA reported.

He said the captain then had to “wake everyone up” before Griffiths “put away the cushions and plants, closed the bow lounge windows and some of the hatches.”

After being thrown once from the capsized ship into the water, Griffiths climbed back aboard and “walked on the walls” as he and other crew members tried to rescue whoever they could.

Griffiths, the ship’s captain, James Cutfield, and the yacht’s engineer, Tim Parker Eaton, are examined after the sinking.

Ansa reported that lawyers for Griffiths and Parker Eaton may “obtain technical advice to clarify the causes of the sinking.”

The head of the Termini Imerese public prosecutor’s office, Ambrogio Cartosio, said earlier that he was investigating a “criminal hypothesis” of guilt in shipwreck and manslaughter.

According to experts, the ultra-modern yacht should not have sunk so quickly.

Seven people died after the Bayesian index dropped.

Among the victims were Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah.

Of the survivors, Griffiths said, “Cutfield saved the little girl and her mother,” referring to Charlotte Golunski and her one-year-old daughter.

Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, was on the yacht with friends and family to celebrate his recent acquittal in a fraud case.

Stephen Chamberlain, former vice president of finance at Autonomy and a suspect in the fraud case, died in a separate incident, just days before the Bayesian rate fell.