Mike Lynch Spoke About Having ‘Second Life’ Before Yacht Sinking Death [Video]

British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch spoke about having a new lease on life and how he was looking forward to spending time with his family in the weeks before his death, according to a journalist who spoke with Lynch about his life after being acquitted of fraud.

On Thursday, Aug. 22, an Italian government official said Lynch’s body had been retrieved from the luxury yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily days earlier, while his family and friends were celebrating his legal victory.

PEOPLE previously reported that five bodies had been found in the days after the Bayesian went into the water.

Although the Italian coast guard has not formally identified the bodies that have been recovered, an official with the Italian interior ministry, confirmed to Reuters that Lynch was one of the victim’s found while his daughter Hannah remained missing.

The father-daughter pair had been among six passengers missing in the aftermath of the sinking, while Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares, was …