Household appliances and furniture allegedly belonging to elderly Manchester couple, Richard and Julia Lyn, were found in a fowl coop on the premises where accused, Lennox Swaby, was living at the time the couple was robbed and strangled.

Swaby, also called 'Son Son', mechanic of Hopeton district, Manchester, and Calvin Powell, also called Kevin, garbage truck driver of New Green, Manchester, are on trial for the double murder.

The Crown, represented by prosecutors Lisa Palmer Hamilton and Claudette Thompson, is alleging that the Lyns were strangled between December 9 and 10 during a robbery at their home. A number of household items and appliances were removed from the house.

Confessed

Evidence was given in the Home Circuit Court on Tuesday that on December 29, 2006, Powell took the police to the Martins Hill garbage dump in Manchester and showed them the bodies.

Yesterday, Detective Sergeant Colin McKenzie said that on December 16, 2006, he and other policemen went to the home of the accused. He said they found two settees covered with a blue tarpaulin in a fowl coop. A washing machine and a water heater were also found.

McKenzie said that later that day he stopped a garbage truck which was being driven by Powell. He said he and Detective Sergeant Dolphie Graveney went up to the truck and he identified himself to Powell. Graveney told Powell he had information that he transported the Lyns and their furniture from their home at 14 Battersea Avenue, Ingleside, Manchester, but Powell said he did not know anything about it.

Powell was searched and a black billfold with several items, including a Scotiabank debit card and two small photographs, were found inside the wallet. When Powell was asked how he came in possession of the photographs he did not respond.

No knowledge

McKenzie said about 9 p.m. on December 16, 2006, Swaby was introduced to him as one of the suspects in the disappearance of the Lyns. Swaby was later asked a number of questions but he said he did not know who owned the furniture that was found at the premises where he lived. Swaby said the Toyota Rav4 which he had been driving belonged to a policeman.

Powell was questioned in the conference room at the Mandeville Police Station on December 27, 2006. He was cautioned and asked a total of 146 questions in the presence of attorney-at-law Owen Crosbie.

Attorney-at-law Robert Arm-strong, who is representing Powell, began addressing Senior Puisne Judge Marva McIntosh yesterday afternoon in the absence of the 12-member jury.

barbara.gayle@gleanerjm.com