HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC) — Two men have denied murdering Jamaica-born George Lynch when they appeared in the Supreme Court on Monday.

The 40-year-old was shot dead outside a house in Hamilton Parish in May 2010.

Wolda Gardner, 33, and Rickai Dickinson, 28, both pleaded not guilty to charges of premeditated murder and using a firearm to commit an indictable offence.

The matter was just one of several to appear before the Supreme Court as part of an arraignment session.

In a separate case, Gardner has also been charged with murdering 20-year-old Malcolm Augustus on St George’s golf course on Christmas Day in 2012. Lynch was an innocent bystander when he was killed four years ago.

He 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.

Lynch, who moved to Bermuda 18 months previously from Canada where he had been living, left behind two daughters.

His Bermudian wife Nekesha was pregnant with their third daughter — named Itana after she was born — when he was murdered.