TECH giant Hewlett Packard is set to follow through on charges of fraud against late Brit billionaire Mike Lynch – meaning his widow could face a £3billion damages claim.
The entrepreneur and dad-of-two, dubbed “Britain’s Bill Gates”, died alongside his teenage daughter when his superyacht the Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily on August 19.
Lynch, 59, sold his software firm Autonomy to Hewlett Packard in 2011 for over £8billion and was later accused of fraud alongside his former finance director.
A civil legal case began in the UK in 2019 and was largely decided in …