The court was yesterday given an insight into the activities of Lennox Swaby and Calvin Powell in the days after they allegedly murdered Mandeville business couple Richard and Julia Lyn during the course of an alleged robbery.

A witness told the trial in the Home Circuit Court that several days after the Lyns went missing between December 9 and 10, Swaby and Powell were still driving around with the Toyota RAV-4 the men allegedly stole from the Lyns’ Mandeville home.

The witness told the court that at one point Swaby even came to her house with a police officer called ‘Bowers’, in the stolen vehicle.

The witness testified that when she enquired as to the ownership of the silver RAV 4, Swaby told her it belonged to a family member who was visiting Jamaica from abroad.

The witness said that Swaby first came to her Mandeville home driving the stolen vehicle around 3:00 am on Sunday, December 10, 2006. She said he and Powell unpacked some items – including a 14-inch Panasonic television set, microwave, a toaster oven, sheet sets, bathroom scale and multi-coloured comforters – which Swaby asked her to keep.

She testified that both men came back to her house on Wednesday night in the said vehicle and that Swaby told her that he wanted her assistance in making a withdrawal from an ATM with a Keycard he had.

The witness said she accompanied the men to the National Commercial Bank in Mandeville in the RAV 4 and Swaby gave her a pin for the card, but the transaction declined. They then went to the Scotia Bank in the town, she said, and tried using the card to withdraw cash, but again the transaction was declined.

At that point, the witness testified, Powell, who she called Kevin, took the card from her and attempted the transaction. The witness said that figures ranging from $5,000 to $10,000 came up on the screen and that Powell selected $5,000. Swaby she said protested against Powell withdrawing “so much money from the man account”.

The transaction, however, was declined and, according to the witness, Powell exclaimed, “A ginnal di boy ginnal wi.”

(The witness told the court that she did not know which man Powell was talking about.)

According to the witness, Swaby visited her house briefly on Thursday afternoon in the RAV 4, accompanied by the policeman called ‘Bowers’ from Mandeville and returned with another person that evening in the said vehicle.

Swaby was held two days later. The police, the witness said, came to her house and removed from the kitchen and the living room the items that Swaby and Powell had brought there.

The trial continues today.