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Shortly after his acquittal in a high-profile US fraud case in June, Mike Lynch gave an interview to the BBC.

Describing the moment he was declared “not guilty” in court, he told BBC Radio 4: “Until you hear the words – you can’t call it and at that point it is indescribable the way in which you jump between two universes.”

The entrepreneur said it was “very hard” to describe the moment he was cleared of all charges but he “knew that the prosecution case had fallen apart”.

“We knew we’d done a great job, but you’re reliant on 12 ordinary people,” he explained.

Asked if he blamed himself for getting himself into the situation, he said “there were certainly times” he thought he could have gone back and done things “in a defensive way”. 

“Rather than sending an email in 12 seconds, you could have sat there and thought if a clever lawyer spends an hour on this how will they misinterpret it and then write another five sentences,” he said.

But, he said, he “knew he had done nothing wrong”.

Deep divers searching but yet to find any of the missing

Deep divers are searching the water but are yet to find any of the six people missing after the yacht sank, an Italian journalist has told reporters.

Angela Corrias said that according to eyewitness accounts, the yacht was moored just outside the port. 

“It wouldn’t have taken them long to go to the port but suddenly they were hit by a tornado and it seems it broke the sailing mast and this is why the boat capsized,” she said.

Describing where the boat was anchored, she said the harbour was “quite popular” and this was also “high season”.

She said: “Eyewitnesses are saying that it seems like there was a party and then around 4.30am they could still see the boat and then all of a sudden the boat disappeared.”

Deep divers are under the water, she said, but they “still haven’t brought anyone out yet”.