Two more suspects held in missing couple case
December 19, 2006
THE police yesterday held two more men in connection with the abduction and robbery of elderly Mandeville couple Richard and Julia Lyn.
This brings to four, the number of people held in connection with the incident since last week.
The identities of the two men held yesterday were not released by the police, but two others who were held on Saturday have been identified as Kevin Powell and Lennox Swaby also called 'Son Son'. Both are from the district of Georges Valley.
The police also recovered a washing machine, two 100-pound gas cylinders, an office chair, a queen-sized bed and mattress behind a premises in Newlands during a search of the area just before dusk yesterday.
The police suspect that the items were stolen in a different incident by the same group of robbers responsible for the Lyns' disappearance. More than one week after the couple were abducted from their home, police are still clueless as to their whereabouts.
For days officers from the Caribbean Search Centre and the Major Investigation Task Force have been combing sections of Manchester, including Georges Valley, Newlands, Grove Town, Dunrobin and two mud lakes in an effort to unearth clues which could lead them to solving the case of the missing couple.
"We have been getting a number of tips but none have yielded any success as to the whereabouts of the Lyns," a police officer who was part of the search party told the Observer yesterday....
Author: Karyl Walker
Source: Jamaica Observer
