The trip was reportedly intended to celebrate Lynch’s acquittal in the long-running US fraud case that followed from HP’s 2011 acquisition of his company, Autonomy.

Coincidentally, Lynch’s co-defendant, Stephen Chamberlain, who was also acquitted, died the day of the storm after being hit by a car on Saturday morning in Stretham, England.

Also took out the chairman of Morgan Stanley International, who was almost certainly not a galactic scale villain.