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The shoe fits
Print found at Lyns' home matches footwear of accused
Karyl Walker
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
FORENSIC scientist Dwayne Hilderbrand yesterday gave sworn testimony that a shoe print found in the Ingleside home of slain couple, Richard and Julia Lyn, matched the right foot of a pair of shoes worn by one of the accused, Lennox Swaby, at the time of his arrest.
Hilderbrand was called as a prosecution witness in the case against Swaby and his co-accused, Calvin Powell, who have been charged with the murder of the elderly couple.
"I compared the information and determined that the print was made by that shoe and no other shoe," Hilderbrand said under questioning from Government prosecutor Lisa Palmer.
Hilderbrand, who is a 30-year expert in footwear and tyre wear impressions, said he was sent 33 images of the shoe and imprints by electronic mail from Jamaican investigators who sought his expertise.
He told the court that the impressions from the shoe could have only come from footwear manufactured by the Lugz shoe company.
Footprints were found inside the Lyns' ransacked home in December 2006 before their decomposing bodies were found at the Martin's Hill dump at New Green in Manchester on New Year's Eve in 2006.
The couple were abducted from their home three weeks before.
The double murder drew the ire of the residents of Mandeville who gathered in their hundreds at the Mandeville police station when news broke that Powell and Swaby had been arrested in connection with their murder.
Calling for blood, the angry mob demanded that the police hand over the two men so they could deliver their own brand of justice.
This forced the cops to whisk the two accused away from the parish capital and lock them behind bars at another station in the parish.
Powell reportedly confessed to the crime days after his arrest and led the police to the bodies.
The trial took over a year to get off the ground as no attorney in the parish of Manchester was willing to represent the two men.
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