Death of Stephen Chamberlain ‘not untoward’ say police

British police say there isn’t any proof that the loss of life of a former colleague of lacking expertise tycoon Mike Lynch is “suspicious or untoward”.

Stephen Chamberlain, 52, died in hospital after being hit by a automobile whereas operating in Stretham, Cambridgeshire – close to his residence in Longstanton – on Saturday.

Mr Lynch is certainly one of amongst these lacking after the yacht Bayesian sank in a storm off Sicily on Monday.

Cambridgeshire Police mentioned officers had not been in touch with Italian police and weren’t going to Italy.

Mr Lynch and Mr Chamberlain have been enterprise companions and had been defendants in a fraud trial within the United States earlier this 12 months.

American prosecutors made fraud allegations over the $11bn (£8.6bn) sale of Mr Lynch’s software program agency, Autonomy, to Hewlett-Packard in 2011.

Both have been acquitted.

Mr Chamberlain had been a finance govt at Autonomy, co-founded by Mr Lynch in 1996.

Hewlett Packard (HP) had received a multibillion-dollar civil case, after suing Mr Lynch, within the High Court in London in 2022.

“All we will do is examine the incident in our county and to this point there isn’t any indication of something suspicious or untoward and we’re happy it is a tragic street collision,” a Cambridgeshire Police spokeswoman advised the BBC.

“We are investigating the collision on Saturday however officers should not going out to Italy.”

She mentioned Cambridgeshire officers had not been in touch with Italian police investigating the yacht sinking.

Mr Lynch, 59, whose daughter Hannah, 18, can be lacking, was raised close to Chelmsford, Essex, and had a house close to Pettistree, Suffolk.

He studied at Cambridge University and in 1991, helped set up Cambridge Neurodynamics – a agency which specialised in utilizing computer-based detection and recognition of fingerprints.

Autonomy was created 5 years later, utilizing a statistical technique often known as “Bayesian inference” on the core of its software program.