TWO men were yesterday charged with the murder of elderly Mandeville couple Richard and Julia Lyn, following the positive DNA test results on two bodies found at the Martin’s Hill dump in Manchester late last year.

The two murder accused – Lennox ‘Son Son’ Swaby and Calvin ‘Kevin’ Powell – are also facing charges of burglary and robbery.

At the same time, Swaby’s mother, 50-year-old June White and another man, 25-year-old Dwayne Reid, were charged with receiving stolen goods.

Swaby and White are already facing charges of illegal possession of ammunition after cops found three rounds of ammunition during a raid at premises they occupied. Police say White stripped herself in a bid to avoid being arrested.

The mother and son, along with Powell are also charged with housebreaking, larceny and unlawful possession of property.

The three will return to the Mandeville Resident Magistrate’s Court today to answer to those charges, while the murder, burglary and robbery charges will be brought before the court later this week.

The four are alleged to be part of a major robbery ring which preyed on homes in affluent Mandeville neighbourhoods. A Mack garbage truck, which is suspected to have been used to transport stolen goods from the homes, has been seized by the police.

Police, however, said the ring has now been cracked as a result of the four arrests.

“This is a major gang we have disrupted here and maybe dismantled,” said head of the Major Investigation Task Force, Deputy Commissioner Les Green.

Swaby, the police said, was out on bail for the 2004 killing of a 14-year-old girl whose body was found in a water tank in the parish. He was charged with carnally abusing the minor at the time of her death.

The Lyns were last seen at a funeral on December 9 last year, and DNA tests concluded that two rotting bodies found in the back of a derelict pick-up truck at the landfill were in fact those of the Lyns. Their remains have since been handed over to relatives.