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Tech boss Mike Lynch's co-defendant in US fraud trial seriously injured in road accident in UK

Stephen Chamberlain, Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in the US A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that Lynch, who was involved in the fraud trial over the sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard, was seriously injured in a traffic accident on Saturday, days before she disappeared off the coast of Sicily, Italy.
Chamberlain, former vice president of finance at Autonomy alongside CEO Lynch, was hit by a car in Cambridgeshire. Great Britain on Saturday morning and was placed on life support, the person said.
Lynch was one of six people reported missing after a luxury yacht was caught in an unexpectedly violent storm off the coast of Sicily early Monday and sank.

Chamberlain faced the same fraud and conspiracy charges as his former boss, and was accused of inflating the company's value before it was sold.

Both men were acquitted of all 15 charges by a jury in San Francisco in June.

Police and rescue workers at the site of the search for Lynch's missing boat in Porticello Santa Flavia, Italy, on Monday, Photo: LaPresse via AP

After leaving Autonomy in 2012, Chamberlain worked as chief operating officer for cybersecurity company Darktrace and volunteered as finance director for Cambridge United soccer club, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Cambridgeshire Police have appealed for witnesses following a collision between a pedestrian and a car on Newmarket Road in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, which left a man in his 50s taken to hospital with serious injuries.

A police spokesman said on Monday that there was no current information on the pedestrian's condition.

The law firm representing Chamberlain in his trial did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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