Mike Lynch’s Associate Who Was Hit by Car Days Before Yacht Sinking Died from 'Traumatic Head Injury': Coroner

Mar. 15, 2025

Stephen Chamberlain.Photo:HANDOUT/Cambridgeshire Police/AFP via Getty

HANDOUT/Cambridgeshire Police/AFP via Getty

On Thursday, Sept. 5, Cambridgeshire Coroner Caroline Jones opened an investigation into Chamberlain’s death,CambridgeshireLive.com,The IndependentandSky Newsreported.

Police previously said 52-year-old Chamberlain, who sustained serious injuries after a vehicle hit him in Cambridgeshire,died in the hospital Aug. 20.

Jones said at the inquest that Chamberlain’s cause of death was recorded as a “traumatic head injury,” per The Independent andThe Guardian.

“A vehicle traveling between Stretham and Wicken on the A1123 crested a humpback bridge and was presented with a runner crossing the road from the nearside to the offside between two parts of a bridleway,” Jones said, per the reports.

Jones was transported to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, theBBCreported, and died on Aug. 20.

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Stephen Chamberlain (L) and Mike Lynch (R).linkedin; Shutterstock

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The probe was adjourned as police continued their investigation, per Sky News. No new date has been disclosed.

There has been no proof that the death of Chamberlain was “suspicious or untoward,” police said, per the BBC.

Chamberlain was a co-defendant inMike Lynch’s U.S. trial concerning the $11 billion sale of Autonomy, a business software company Lynch founded, to Hewlett Packard in 2011. A San Francisco jury acquitted Lynch and Chamberlain of all fraud and conspiracy charges in June.

A source close to the yacht survivors previously told PEOPLE thatLynch was celebrating his acquittalbefore the Aug. 19 sinking. “That’s why he took his closest friends and colleagues on the trip,” said the source.

“He made a lasting impression on everyone who had the privilege of knowing him,” their statement continued. “He will be deeply missed but forever in the hearts of his loved ones.”

Chamberlain’s attorney, Gary Lincenberg, previously called his client “a courageous man with unparalleled integrity.”

“We deeply miss him,” Lincenberg said, per theBBC. “Steve fought successfully to clear his good name at trial earlier this year, and his good name now lives on through his wonderful family.”

source: people.com