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Friday, November 13, 2009
JURORS yesterday heard the recording of what may have been accused Calvin Powell making a demand for $7 million for the safe return of Mandeville couple Richard and Julia Lyn.
The alleged conversation between Dr Maurice Lyn and the accused was recorded by the police on December 15, 2006.
The person making the demand sounded cool and in control on the 15-plus-minute recording - even as he casually stated his intention of killing the Lyns if Maurice Lyn, their son, did not come up with the money by a certain time.
Lyn, 41, remained calm throughout the tape but his anxiety was revealed as he pleaded desperately, but unsuccessfully, for proof that his parents were alive.
"My mother no trouble nobody, all right. My mother and my father don't trouble nobody," Lyn could be heard saying.
"Dat's why dem don't dead as yet because them working with us, them co-operating," responded the person on the other end of the line.
Lyn, at the time, had no idea that his parents were already killed, possibly on December 9, and their bodies dumped at the Martin's Hill landfill, just outside of Mandeville, Manchester.
The Home Circuit Court trial was told by Lyn on Wednesday that he had made contact with the person demanding the ransom after calling his father's cellphone.
Powell, the court heard previously, had made the ransom demand on instruction from co-accused Lennox Swaby.
Some jurors appeared repulsed by the recording, especially when Lyn was being assured that his mother was OK and that she was taking her medication - and at the point where the person believed to be Powell said that the wrong Lyns were kidnapped.
Powell and Swaby have been on trial since October 5 for the December 9, 2006 murder of the Lyns, whose Battersea, Ingleside home they allegedly invaded, stealing several items of furniture and the couple's two motor vehicles, among other things.
The trial continues today.
- Paul Henry
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/..._IN_COURT_.asp
JURORS yesterday heard the recording of what may have been accused Calvin Powell making a demand for $7 million for the safe return of Mandeville couple Richard and Julia Lyn.
The alleged conversation between Dr Maurice Lyn and the accused was recorded by the police on December 15, 2006.
The person making the demand sounded cool and in control on the 15-plus-minute recording - even as he casually stated his intention of killing the Lyns if Maurice Lyn, their son, did not come up with the money by a certain time.
Lyn, 41, remained calm throughout the tape but his anxiety was revealed as he pleaded desperately, but unsuccessfully, for proof that his parents were alive.
"My mother no trouble nobody, all right. My mother and my father don't trouble nobody," Lyn could be heard saying.
"Dat's why dem don't dead as yet because them working with us, them co-operating," responded the person on the other end of the line.
Lyn, at the time, had no idea that his parents were already killed, possibly on December 9, and their bodies dumped at the Martin's Hill landfill, just outside of Mandeville, Manchester.
The Home Circuit Court trial was told by Lyn on Wednesday that he had made contact with the person demanding the ransom after calling his father's cellphone.
Powell, the court heard previously, had made the ransom demand on instruction from co-accused Lennox Swaby.
Some jurors appeared repulsed by the recording, especially when Lyn was being assured that his mother was OK and that she was taking her medication - and at the point where the person believed to be Powell said that the wrong Lyns were kidnapped.
Powell and Swaby have been on trial since October 5 for the December 9, 2006 murder of the Lyns, whose Battersea, Ingleside home they allegedly invaded, stealing several items of furniture and the couple's two motor vehicles, among other things.
The trial continues today.
- Paul Henry
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/..._IN_COURT_.asp