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BLOODHOUND is a 29.87 m Sail Yacht, built in the United States of America by Gilbert, Richardson & Swindall and delivered in 1992.

Her top speed is 10.0 kn and her cruising speed is 8.0 kn and her power comes from a Perkins diesel engine. She can accommodate up to 6 guests, with 5 crew members waiting on their every need. She has a gross tonnage of 45.0 GT and a 3.75 m beam.

She was designed by William Fife II .

The naval architecture was developed by Mike Richardson - she is built with a Teak deck, a Wood hull, and Teak superstructure.

BLOODHOUND is one of 995 sailing yachts in the 24-30m size range.

BLOODHOUND is currently sailing under the United States of America flag, the most popular flag state for superyachts with a total of 1655 yachts registered. She is known to be an active superyacht and has most recently been spotted cruising near United States of America. For more information regarding BLOODHOUND's movements, find out more about BOATPro AIS .

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  • Name: BLOODHOUND
  • Yacht Type: Sail Yacht
  • Builder: Gilbert, Richardson & Swindall
  • Naval Architect: Mike Richardson
  • Exterior Designer: William Fife II

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This famous yacht was built for Isaac Bell to the 12-Metre rule, but with a heavier and more powerful hull, and subsequently won the Fastnet race in 1939 with Charles Nicholson at the helm.

The Stephens brothers were responsible for the sail layout which was later modified by John Illingworth and Angus Primrose.

She became a ‘Royal yacht’ in 1963 and was said to be Prince Philip’s preference to ‘ Latifa ‘.

In 2006 she was nearing the completion of an 18 month restoration in a barn at Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, UK.    The project was undertaken by her owner, Tony McGrail of Poole.   The steel frames were replaced as well as 10,000 fastenings and 30% of the planking.   She was alongside at the 2008 Southampton Boat Show and attracted many classic yacht enthusiasts eagerly listening to the tails of Tony and his wife Cindy.

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This historic 1930s ocean-racing yacht, owned by Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Philip in the 1960s and aboard which Prince Charles and Princess Anne learned to sail, was purchased by The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust in 2010.

She is usually on display alongside BRITANNIA in Edinburgh as part of the Royal Sailing Exhibition. During July and August, BLOODHOUND sails to Oban, where she is available for a day sail around the Western Isles, crewed mainly by former Royal Yachtsmen from BRITANNIA.

Built in 1936 by Camper & Nicholsons yard in Gosport, BLOODHOUND was one of the most successful ocean-racing yachts ever built, winning scores of races in the south of England and also crossed the Atlantic to compete in Bermuda.

On the back of this outstanding race history, BLOODHOUND was acquired by the Royal Family in 1962 and Prince Philip had much success competing with her at the Cowes Week Regatta around the Isle of Wight. During this sailing festival BRITANNIA hosted not only the British Royal Family, but members of other Royal Families and many dignitaries.

During Royal ownership BLOODHOUND would also accompany BRITANNIA in the Western Isles when the Royal Ramily had their one true family holiday every year. She had a permanent crew of three and one Skipper was a descendent of Sir Francis Drake. It was suring these times that the young Royals learned to sail on on BLOODHOUND and when she was not in use, her crew were made available in yacht clubs across the country, used to teach thousands of young people how to sail.

In 1969 BLOODHOUND was sold and not replaced by the Royal Family and the vessel effectively retired from racing. over time she gradually fell into disrepair and very nearly became beyond salvage until in 2003 she was purchased by Tony and Cindy McGrail of Poole, a yacht surveyor and classic yacht restorer. At the time the vessel was in urgent need of restoration but it was felt that the amount of work involved might make such a project uneconomical.  However, Tony and Cindy embarked on a four year reconstruction bringing BLOODHOUND back to pristine condition.

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The classic 1930s ocean racing yacht Bloodhound, owned by Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Philip in the 1960s and aboard which Prince Charles and Princess Anne learned to sail, has today been purchased by The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust to put on display alongside Britannia in Edinburgh.

Built in 1936 by the famous Camper & Nicholsons yard in Gosport, Bloodhound was one of the most successful ocean racing yachts ever built, winning scores of races in the south of England and also crossed the Atlantic to compete in Bermuda.

On the back of this outstanding race history Bloodhound was acquired by the Royal Family in 1962 and Prince Philip had much success competing with her at the famous Cowes Week regatta around the Isle of Wight. During this sailing festival Britannia hosted not only the British Royal Family but members of other Royal Families and many dignitaries.

During royal ownership Bloodhound would also accompany Britannia in the Western Isles when the Royal Family had their one true family holiday. It is during these happy times that the young Royals learned to sail on Bloodhound. When not in Royal use Bloodhound was also crewed by a number of youth organisations, teaching young people how to sail.

In 1969 Bloodhound was sold and not replaced by the Royal Family. Bloodhound then effectively retired from racing until the 1980s when she once again competed until 2001. Thereafter she fell into considerable disrepair and very nearly became beyond salvage. However in 2003 she was purchased by Tony McGrail, a yacht surveyor and classic yacht restorer. Over the next 3∏ years she then underwent a major internal and external refit to bring her back to her pristine original condition.

Having been purchased by The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust, Bloodhound will form the centrepiece of a major new exhibit at this 5 Star visitor attraction, which in terms of quality is officially Scotland’s best visitor attraction. It is anticipated that Bloodhound will be on display in April 2010.

Chairman of the Royal Yacht Britannia Trust, Rear Admiral Neil Rankin said “We are delighted to have acquired such an important piece of British yachting history and look forward to having Bloodhound alongside Britannia once more, for the public to see what a wonderful ocean racing yacht she is and why she was so fondly regarded by all associated with her illustrious past”.

Tony McGrail commented “We are delighted that Bloodhound will be joining The Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh. Firstly because we always hoped that she would remain in her home waters, secondly because her heritage will be recognised, cherished and admired by the public while she lies alongside her big ‘sister’ and her maintenance and longevity is guaranteed which is very reassuring, all of which makes our restoration programme both appreciated and worthwhile.”

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The classic 1930s ocean-racing yacht Bloodhound, owned by Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Philip in the 1960s and aboard which Prince Charles and Princess Anne learned to sail, was purchased by The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust in 2010. She is now on display alongside Britannia in Edinburgh as part of the Royal Sailing Exhibition. During July and August, Bloodhound sails to Oban, where she is available for day sail around the Western Isles, crewed mainly by former Royal Yachtsmen from Britannia.

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Members of the Royal Family, and particularly Prince Philip, have always been keen sailors. Prince Philip owned Coweslip, designed and built by the legendary Uffa Fox, and was given the International Dragon Class Bluebottle as a wedding gift. Bluebottle, skippered by the Sailing Master Lt Cdr Graham Mann, was part of the British Olympic team for the 1956 Melbourne Games and won a bronze medal. In fact, Britannia’s paint scheme was taken from this very same racing yacht. However, as the Royal children grew older, Prince Philip wanted a larger yacht, with sleeping accommodation, that could undertake family cruises.

Glittering career

Built in 1936 by the famous Camper & Nicholsons yard in Gosport, Bloodhound was one of the most successful ocean-racing yachts ever built, winning scores of races in the south of England and also crossed the Atlantic to compete in Bermuda.

On the back of this outstanding race history Bloodhound was acquired by the Royal Family in 1962 and Prince Philip had much success competing with her at the famous Cowes Week Regatta around the Isle of Wight. During this sailing festival Britannia hosted not only the British Royal Family, but members of other Royal Families and many dignitaries.

Western Isles

During Royal ownership Bloodhound would also accompany Britannia in the Western Isles when the Royal Family had their one true family holiday every year. She had a permanent crew of three and one Skipper was a descendent of Sir Francis Drake. It was during these happy times that the young Royals learned to sail on Bloodhound. When not in Royal use, Bloodhound and her crew were made available to yacht clubs across the country, used to teach thousands of young people how to sail.

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In 1969 Bloodhound was sold and not replaced by the Royal Family. Bloodhound then effectively retired from racing. Over time she gradually fell into considerable disrepair and very nearly became beyond salvage. However in 2003 she was purchased by Tony McGrail, a yacht surveyor and classic yacht restorer. Over the next 3½ years she underwent a major internal and external refit to bring her back to her original pristine condition.

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Bloodhound is a 63 ft sailing yacht, built by Camper and Nicholsons in 1936. From 1962 to 1969 she was owned by the British Royal Family and in January 2010 she was purchased by The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust.

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The classic 1930s ocean racing yacht Bloodhound, owned by Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Philip in the 1960s and aboard which Prince Charles and Princess Anne learned to sail, has been purchased by The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust to put on display alongside Britannia in Edinburgh.

Built in 1936 by the Camper & Nicholson yard in Gosport, Bloodhound was one of the most successful ocean racing yachts ever built, winning scores of races in the south of England and also crossed the Atlantic to compete in Bermuda.

On the back of this outstanding race history Bloodhound was acquired by the Royal Family in 1962 and Prince Philip (pictured at the helm) had much success competing with her at Cowes Week.

During royal ownership Bloodhound would also accompany the Royal Yacht, Britannia in the Western Isles when the Royal Family had their annual family holiday.

When not in Royal use Bloodhound was also crewed by a number of youth organisations, teaching young people how to sail. In 1969 Bloodhound was sold and not replaced by the Royal Family.

Bloodhound then effectively retired from racing until the 1980s when she once again competed until 2001. Thereafter she fell into considerable disrepair and very nearly became beyond salvage.

However in 2003 she was purchased by Tony McGrail, a yacht surveyor and classic yacht restorer. Over the next 3½ years she then underwent a major internal and external refit.

Having been purchased by The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust, Bloodhound will form the centrepiece of a major new exhibit. It is anticipated that Bloodhound will be on display in April 2010.

Chairman of the Royal Yacht Britannia Trust, Rear Admiral Neil Rankin said “We are delighted to have acquired such an important piece of British yachting history and look forward to having Bloodhound alongside Britannia once more, for the public to see what a wonderful ocean racing yacht she is and why she was so fondly regarded by all associated with her illustrious past”.

Tony McGrail commented “We are delighted that Bloodhound will be joining The Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh. Firstly because we always hoped that she would remain in her home waters, secondly because her heritage will be recognised, cherished and admired by the public while she lies alongside her big ‘sister’ and her maintenance and longevity is guaranteed which is very reassuring, all of which makes our restoration programme both appreciated and worthwhile.”

Image: Bloodhound in the 1960s with Prince Philip sailing Copyright: Beken Ltd.

For further information about Bloodhound and the restoration please visit www.royalyachtbloodhound.com or visit www.royalyachtbritannia.co.uk

Restored royal yacht once owned by Duke of Edinburgh joins historic fleet

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A sailboat that was owned by the Duke of Edinburgh has been added to the historic fleet of the Royal Yacht Britannia.

The restoration of Bluebottle was funded by the Leith-based attraction over an 18-month period.

The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust said the dragon class sailboat was “formerly owned and much-loved” by Philip.

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It will join yachts Coweslip and Bloodhound – both of which were also owned by Philip – at the popular Leith site, which has had a “longstanding ambition” to reunite the three historic vessels.

David Heritage, of David Heritage Racing Yachts, was funded by the trust to restore Bluebottle.

He said: “It was a great honour to undertake the challenge of rebuilding such an iconic and famous racing yacht and with the use of modern boat building techniques, bring her back to full racing condition.

“It was also an honour to know that the Duke of Edinburgh was able to see photographs as the rebuild progressed, but equally sad that he was unable to see the finished boat.”

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The duke served as a Royal Navy officer and was a keen sailor who was appointed admiral of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

He began sailing while he was at Gordonstoun School in Moray and often took a young Prince of Wales on to the water in Bluebottle, which was a wedding gift to the Queen from the Island Sailing Club in Cowes, Isle of Wight.

In 1956 Bluebottle was loaned to the British sailing team competing at the Melbourne Olympics, winning a bronze medal with Lieutenant Commander Graham Mann at the helm.

The restored yacht is expected to compete for the Edinburgh Cup at the British Dragon Association’s UK championships in late August, crewed by sailors Julia and Graham Bailey.

Royal Yacht Britannia chief executive Bob Downie said: “To finally have all three beautiful royal sailing yachts on public display alongside Britannia completes a historic maritime jigsaw we started 12 years ago, and I am sure our visitors will be as delighted as we are to see all the Duke of Edinburgh’s much-loved sailing yachts united once more.

“We also look forward to Bluebottle once again sailing in the company of other dragon class yachts, both here in the River Forth and at regattas elsewhere in the UK.”

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Classic Yacht 'Bloodhound' price reduced

The classic yacht 'Bloodhound', once owned by Queen Elizabeth 11 and the Duke of Edinburgh, has been lovingly restored by Tony Mcgrail, a specialist classic yacht restorer. This beautiful classic yacht was originally built in 1935 by Camper & Nicholson to a design by Peter Nicholson. Built to the 12 metre rule, but constructed with offshore racing in mind, she has proven to be the boat to beat at countless regattas and offshore races during her long life.

During her ownership by the UK Royal family she was a regular site at many regattas, also touring with the family on their regular trips to Scotland and the Continent. When not being used by the Royal family, this lovely classic yacht could be found at yacht clubs around the UK where she was available to members wishing to experience sailing on a beautiful yacht. Interestingly, she was skippered by no less a person than Francis Drake!

Tony McGrail has now completed a full restoration and she is available for sale in time for the 2008 season. As one of the lucky few who have been sailing her during sea trials and reviews for magazines such as Classic Yacht, I can report she is the lovliest yacht I have ever had the pleasure to sail. If you want to own one of the most famous classic yachts ever built, you are welcome to contact www.boatmatch.com , we have hundreds of pictures taken throughout the restoration and many of her sailing.

The asking price for 'Bloodhound' has now been reduced and offers are invited at a new price of £998,000. Given the undoubted provenance, performance and the quality of workmanship in the restoration this is remarkable value for one of the most famous yachts ever built. Simon Walworth Telephone +44 1725 514466 Picture is me on the helm during her first sail after the restoration.

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Name Official number Flag IMO
BLOODHOUND  68633  GBR   
Year built Date launched Date completed
1874  1874/03   
Vessel type Vessel description
Yacht   Wood Sailing Vessel  Cutter
Builder Yard Yard no
Fife & Son, Fairlie    
 
Tonnage Length Breadth Depth Draft
38 grt / 38 nrt / 40 tm 62.0 ft  12.3 ft  7.8 ft   
Engine builder ,
Engine detail
 
First owner First port of register Registration date
Archibald Kennedy, Marquis of Ailsa, Culzean Castle, Ayrshire  Ayr  23/04/1874 
Other names
 
Subsequent owner and registration history
1881 Patrick Rattray, Glasgow
1882 Andrew Bain, Holytown Station Nr Glasgow
1894 William Menzies, Glasgow
1899 Robert F Borthwick, Glasgow
c1901 Sir Thomas Dunlop.
1907 Marquis of Ailsa, Culzean Castle, Ayrshire 
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Remarks
Frame English oak, planking Red Pine and Mahogany. 
End year Fate / Status
1922  Burned  
Disposal detail
Destroyed in a fire at White's yard, Itchen Ferry, Southampton. 
 


 
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Mike Lynch, a tech tycoon who built one of the biggest software companies in Britain and in June was acquitted after a U.S. fraud trial related to its sale, has been declared dead after a boating accident on Aug. 19 off the northern coast of Sicily. He was 59.

An Italian government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity in keeping with protocol, confirmed to The Washington Post that Dr. Lynch’s body had been recovered.

Dr. Lynch was on a roughly 180-foot luxury sailing yacht, the Bayesian, with his wife, daughter and 19 others when the boat sank in a sudden, violent storm. Fifteen people were rescued, including Dr. Lynch’s wife, Angela Bacares. The Lynches’ teenage daughter, Hannah, remains missing.

The yacht’s chef was confirmed dead. Four other bodies were pulled from the wreckage but have not been publicly identified.

The yacht, owned by a company controlled by Bacares, was reputedly named after “Bayesian inference,” the statistical method for adjusting a hypothesis based on new evidence. Dr. Lynch’s artificial-intelligence algorithms — the core of the company he co-founded — were based on this method.

Dr. Lynch’s voyage was meant to be a celebration after the year he spent under house arrest in San Francisco while fighting more than a dozen U.S. Justice Department charges, including conspiracy and wire fraud. The charges stemmed from the sale of his company, Autonomy, more than a decade ago, to Hewlett-Packard, for about $11 billion.

Before the jury acquitted him of all charges, Dr. Lynch had faced up to 25 years in prison. His co-defendant in the case, Stephen Chamberlain, Autonomy’s former vice president of finance, was also acquitted. Chamberlain was struck by a car on Aug. 17 while he was on a run in England and died soon thereafter, according to his lawyer.

Dr. Lynch, was widely regarded as England’s first self-made internet billionaire and sometimes dubbed the “ Bill Gates of Britain ,” referring to the Microsoft co-founder. He was also a science and technology adviser to the Conservative Party governments of Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May. He served as a nonexecutive director of the BBC and was a trustee of the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts in England.

At the time of his death, Dr. Lynch and his wife were worth an estimated 500 million pounds ($652 million), according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2024 , down 352 million pounds ($459 million) from a year earlier.

Dr. Lynch co-founded Autonomy with David Tabizel and Richard Gaunt in 1996 to build early AI-driven search engines that could trawl through websites, email inboxes, police files or other datasets and return customized results. An Autonomy news release likened its product to a “smart bloodhound” that got smarter with use.

Autonomy’s search tool drew the notice of police units and intelligence agencies, which became major customers. Asked by Salon magazine in 2000 whether he had any qualms about privacy issues associated with how his products were used, Dr. Lynch argued that technology-based evidence, such as fingerprint searches, made it “very hard” to convict someone falsely.

“That system has put a series of rapists and serial murderers away, and I don’t lose any sleep at all about that,” he told Salon .

Autonomy saw its share price skyrocket during the first dot-com boom, and, by the late 2000s, its customers grew to include corporations such as eBay, Ford, Toyota and Fox as well as NATO and defense and intelligence agencies in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America.

As Autonomy’s chief executive, the James Bond-loving Dr. Lynch developed a reputation as a swaggering and hard-charging leader. He drove an Aston Martin, like the fictional British spy; named office rooms after Bond villains such as Dr. No and Goldfinger; and installed a piranha tank at the company’s headquarters.

Dr. Lynch expanded the firm rapidly through acquisitions in areas such as voice recognition. With significant revenue coming from the United States, Autonomy established a large office in San Francisco.

Even after his success, he identified as an engineer more than a corporate leader, telling an interviewer in 2017 that “technical people” like himself were motivated by the one-upmanship of “showing someone else in a very nerdy way that your idea is better.”

Hewlett-Packard’s acquisition of Autonomy in 2011 sent excitement through the tech industry, even amid concerns from some British officials that one of England’s most prominent software companies was being purchased by Americans.

Dr. Lynch, whose hobbies included the husbandry of rare and threatened livestock breeds, told the British media at the time of the sale that he would use the proceeds to purchase more Red Poll cows for his farm in Suffolk. He later said he had “no choice” but to sell Autonomy, observing that U.K. companies lacked mechanisms like poison pills to block a takeover.

HP’s chief executive, Léo Apotheker, had wooed Dr. Lynch at a French seaside resort, believing Autonomy’s AI technology could reinvigorate HP, which was struggling to remain relevant with its stodgy desktops and printers. Apotheker, the former head of German software giant SAP, was bullish on software, overruling skeptics at HP who worried that Autonomy’s price tag was too high.

Within weeks of announcing the deal, Apotheker was pushed out, with shareholders furious over Autonomy’s astronomical cost and his efforts to sell off HP’s cherished PC division. His replacement, Meg Whitman, fired Dr. Lynch as Autonomy’s chief in May 2012 and began probing the unit’s books, while also laying off tens of thousands of workers in the face of dire finances.

In November 2012, HP announced it was writing down $8.8 billion of Autonomy’s $11 billion valuation, claiming the British company had inflated its sales and engaged in “serious accounting improprieties.” Some investors and analysts called the purchase one of the worst corporate deals in history. The debacle contributed to a diminished HP splitting itself in two in 2015 and the eventual sale of the Autonomy division.

Dr. Lynch flatly denied HP’s allegations, saying it was HP’s mismanagement and infighting that destroyed Autonomy’s value. He spent much of the next decade fighting legal cases in the U.K. and the United States.

In January 2022, the U.K. High Court ruled against Dr. Lynch in a civil case brought by HP, finding that he had fraudulently inflated Autonomy’s value. The court has yet to determine damages; HP has sought $5 billion from Dr. Lynch.

Meanwhile, Dr. Lynch lost his fight against extradition to the United States to face criminal charges over the Autonomy sale. He was extradited in May 2023 and put under house arrest awaiting jury trial in San Francisco.

The criminal trial began in March, with Dr. Lynch taking the stand in his own defense. He maintained his innocence, even though he acknowledged Autonomy was “not perfect.”

“The reality of life is that it’s nuanced, and it is messy,” he told the court. “If you take the microscope into a spotless kitchen, you will always find bacteria.”

To observers, the odds seemed against Dr. Lynch. Autonomy’s former chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, had been convicted in 2018 in the same court on similar charges of defrauding HP and was sentenced to five years in prison. Dr. Lynch’s digressions on livestock on the stand drew reprimands from the judge to stay on topic.

Yet the jury sided with Dr. Lynch, whose attorneys argued that he was focused on the big picture of running a company and was less involved in the details of accounting.

After his acquittal this June, Dr. Lynch told the BBC that he was able to clear his name only because his enormous wealth allowed him to sustain a decade-long legal defense.

Michael Richard Lynch was born on June 16, 1965, in Ilford, England. His mother, a nurse, and his father, a firefighter, were Irish immigrants. Dr. Lynch grew up near Chelmsford, northeast of London.

Starting at 11 and on scholarship, he attended Bancroft’s, a private school near London where Dr. Lynch nurtured an early interest in technology thanks, in part, to a math teacher who taught him to write code on punch cards.

By the time Dr. Lynch was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, he showed promise in entrepreneurship. He built his own digital sampler, which became the cornerstone of an early start-up producing audio products for the music recording industry.

He received a doctorate from Cambridge in signals processing and, in 1991, he co-founded a fingerprint verification company, Cambridge Neurodynamics, from which Autonomy eventually spun off.

Autonomy is now a part of the Canadian company OpenText. After selling Autonomy, Dr. Lynch went on to found a venture capital firm, Invoke Capital, which invested in the British cybersecurity start-up Darktrace.

In addition to Hannah, Dr. Lynch had another daughter. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.

In a July interview with the Sunday Times of London , Dr. Lynch said he planned to use his new freedom to fund a British equivalent of the Innocence Project to help free defendants who had been wrongfully convicted.

He told the paper that he had been contemplating what he termed “Saint Peter questions,” explaining: “So you arrive at the Pearly Gates before being dispatched to the elevator down to the basement, and you say to Saint Peter, ‘You know, just before I go, what was that all about? What was that?’”

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