Stephen Chamberlain, Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in the US trial over the sale of software company Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard, was injured very seriously in a car accident on Saturdaytwo days before “Britain’s Bill Gates” was lost in a shipwreck off Sicily, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

Chamberlain, the former vice president of finance at Autonomy, of which Mr. Lynch was the founder and chief executive, was hit by a car on Saturday morning in Cambridgeshire. It has been placed on mechanical support, according to this source.

Leeds is among six people missing after a luxury yacht capsized in a storm in the early hours of this morning.

Chamberlain was facing the same charges as his former boss. They were both tried for fraud and conspiracy after allegedly artificially inflating the company’s value before it was sold in 2011. Both were acquitted in June of all 15 charges against them.

After leaving Autonomy in 2012, Chamberlain worked at cybersecurity firm Darktrace and volunteered as CFO for the Cambridge United soccer team, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Cambridgeshire Police have appealed for witnesses after a pedestrian was run over by a car in Newmarket Street, Stredham. On Saturday she said the pedestrian, a man in his 50s, was taken to hospital with serious injuries, but today a spokesman said she had no update on his condition.