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.

The Lyns were last seen two Saturdays ago. A number of household appliances and furniture were taken from their home at Ingleside in Manchester. The couple’s two vehicles, a Toyota Rav 4 and a Toyota Corolla, were also stolen. The police have since recovered the Rav 4 after it was involved in a hit-and-run accident in the parish last week. The cops say they have also recovered a number of items stolen from the Lyns’ home. The other vehicle has still not been found. A reward of $1 million has been offered for information leading to the safe return of the Lyns and the arrest and conviction of the person/persons responsible for the abduction and robbery.