In June, Mike Lynch walked out of a San Francisco courtroom, a free man under the California sun.
He had been acquitted of fraud in a US federal court, where the conviction rate for those pleading not guilty is above 80 per cent. After 12 years of legal battles over the sale of the company he co-founded, Autonomy, he was “elated” — and ready to resume his position as one of Britain’s most successful tech entrepreneurs.
Lynch had feared that, if he had been convicted, his life would have ended in a US prison. He could not have imagined it would instead end barely two months later on a celebratory sailing trip in the Mediterranean.
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