HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC) — Two men appeared in court Monday charged with the murder of Jamaica-born George Lynch almost three years ago.

Wolda Gardner, 33, and Rickai Dickinson, 28, have also been accused of using a firearm to commit the indictable offence.

Lynch, 40, an innocent bystander, was shot dead outside a house on Midland Heights Crescent in Hamilton Parish on May 5, 2010.

Gardner and Dickinson were remanded in custody and their case set for mention on January 28. They were not required to enter a plea.

It was Gardner’s second court appearance on a murder charge this year. He also appeared in court for the murder of 20-year-old Malcolm Augustus, who was shot and killed on the St George’s golf course on Christmas Day last year.

Lynch, a father of three, died from a single shot to the chest outside a home that was the subject of a trial involving an earlier mob attack there.

Lynch had gone to the house to visit his friend Philmore Phinn, who gave evidence just days before in the case against several men accused of the mob attack.

Police confirmed Lynch, a hospital housekeeper, had no links to Bermuda’s gang underworld.

His father, Leonard Lynch, then living in Branton, Ontario, Canada, described him at the time as a bystander who found himself alone and vulnerable when two masked men opened fire.

“Life is not the same, it has really upset our whole family and the worst part of the whole thing is his young family. His three young children have been left without a father,” the father said then.

Lynch, who moved from Canada to Bermuda 18 months before his death, never saw his third daughter, Itana, who was born after his death.