A BANKER who died when billionaire Mike Lynch’s yacht sank in Sicily last year left £6million in his will, documents reveal.
Jonathan Bloomer, 70, died alongside wife Judy when the £30m, 180ft boat was capsized in a freak weather event off the coast of the Italian island last August.
PAMr Bloomer left £6m to his children in his will[/caption]
The former chairman of international bank Morgan Stanley, who suffocated in the air pockets of the boat as it sank to the sea floor, passed on £6,551,549.
His will was authorised by the High Court last week and would have left everything to Judy, 71, had she not died alongside him in the wreck.
Instead, the huge sum will pass to his son and two daughters, who all survive him.
It is the first will to be released of those who died on the boat. Details of billionaire Lynch’s estate have not yet been made public.
Mr Bloomer was a respected City veteran who was CEO of financial giant Prudential before being ousted in 2005.
He took the International Chairman role at Morgan Stanley in 2016.
The global firm has offices in 42 different countries, and specialises in investment banking and wealth management.
Mr Bloomer was also chairman of insurance firm Hiscox.
The bodies of Autonomy founder Mr Lynch, 59, and his daughter Hannah, 18, were both recovered at the scene.
Mr Lynch’s yacht sank only weeks after he beat a life sentence in America, after being acquitted of serious fraud.
The body of Recaldo Thomas, who was working as a chef on the superyacht, was recovered at the scene.
Clifford Chance lawyer Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda Morvillo also died and were pulled from the wreckage.
Some 15 people survived the sinking after being thrown off the boat into the water when it was caught in a storm while docked.
It comes as Sicilian prosecutors, who are treating it as suspected manslaughter, hope to gain more evidence by raising the vessel to examine it in detail.
They have placed the captain and two British crew members under investigation.
The salvage is scheduled for between April 20 and May 10 after talks between prosecutors, the Italian coastguard and the company that owns the yacht, which is controlled by Lynch’s widow Angela Bacares.
The operation will begin with the removal of the yacht’s 72-metre mast to make raising the hull easier.
Parts of the rigging are thought to be embedded in the sea floor.
A barge will be stationed over the yacht, which is lying on its starboard side, and a crane will be used to hoist it to the surface.
Inside The Bayesian’s final 16 minutes
By Ellie Doughty, Foreign News Reporter
Data recovered from the Bayesian’s Automatic Identification System (AIS) breaks down exactly how it sank in a painful minute-by-minute timeline.
At 3.50am on Monday August 19 the Bayesian began to shake “dangerously” during a fierce storm, Italian outlet Corriere revealed.
Just minutes later at 3.59am the boat’s anchor gave way, with a source saying the data showed there was “no anchor left to hold”.
After the ferocious weather ripped away the boat’s mooring it was dragged some 358 metres through the water.
By 4am it had began to take on water and was plunged into a blackout, indicating that the waves had reached its generator or even engine room.
At 4.05am the Bayesian fully disappeared underneath the waves.
An emergency GPS signal was finally emitted at 4.06am to the coastguard station in Bari, a city nearby, alerting them that the vessel had sunk.
Early reports suggested the disaster struck around 5am local time off the coast of Porticello Harbour in Palermo, Sicily.
The new data pulled from the boat’s AIS appears to suggest it happened an hour earlier at around 4am.
Some 15 of the 22 onboard were rescued, 11 of them scrambling onto an inflatable life raft that sprung up on the deck.
A smaller nearby boat – named Sir Robert Baden Powell – then helped take those people to shore.
