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Stephen Chamberlain, once Mike Lynch's co-defendant in the U.S.
fraud trial over the sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard, has died after a road accident left him critically injured, days before Lynch went missing off the coast of Sicily, his lawyer said on Monday.