In addition to a sermon, the Lord‘s Prayer and the final commendation, solemn renditions of The Cure‘s “Just Like Heaven,” Alphaville’s “Forever Young” and Tomasco Albinoni’s “Adagio in G Minor” were performed at the ’funeral of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18 year old daughter Hanna in central London Thursday. The two were among seven killed in August when his 180 foot super yacht sank off the coast of Sicily. Lynch’s family invited The Sunday Times newspaper to the funeral, which counted friends, family, politicians and Nobel prize-winning geneticist and president-elect of the Royal Society Paul Nurse among the mourners. A coach bus full of Hannah’s classmates from Latymer Upper School, the private day school she graduated from earlier this year, sat at the front of the ceremony. Lynch’s widow, Angela Bacares, and the couple’s eldest daughter, Esme, 22, brought four of the family’s dog’s including Lynch’s beloved Faucet, a shetland sheepdog who “occasionally unleashing a high-pitched bark that bounced from the arched ceilings“ of St James’s Church, Piccadilly. Nurse, who gave a eulogy, used the opportunity to rail against the “shameful and shameless” 2023 extradition and San Francisco house arrest of Lynch by the US Justice Department on fraud allegations that he was cleared of in a jury trial in June. Lynch died 74 days after he was acquitted. Sir David Davis, a Conservative MP who has called for the overturning of a one-sided U.S.-UK extradition treaty where the Americans can ignore British requests but not vice versa, reportedly nodded in agreement. “How was it possible that he could have been so betrayed by the past government?” Nurse said.
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