Word: lynch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...arrested men, Mel Patrick Lynch, 37, a New York City fireman, and Dominic Byrne, 53, a Brooklyn limousine operator, have signed statements admitting their roles in the eight-day abduction of the 21-year-old Bronfman. Lynch's attorney has asked that his client undergo psychiatric tests, apparently to build a defense of mental incompetence at the time of the kidnaping. Byrne's attorney insists that his client acted out of fear-presumably of Lynch -for his safety, and actually helped Bronfman during his confinement. Although the two suspects have been friends for about ten years, their defense...
...abductors was a woman. He recalls being pushed into the back seat of a car when the kidnapers seized him outside the unoccupied home of his mother, Ann Loeb Bronfman, in suburban Purchase, N.Y., in the early morning hours of Aug. 9. He is certain that Lynch sat beside him on the seat, and he believes a third person was seated next to Lynch. Bronfman thinks that it was a woman because at one point, the car stopped, someone got out, and he heard the rap of high-heeled shoes on the sidewalk. After the ransom was paid...
...possibility of an IRA connection stems from several findings: 1) Both Lynch and Byrne were born in Ireland; 2) Lynch had made several trips to England and Ireland in the past year, according to his passport; 3) Byrne spoke to friends about making a "big score" to help "the cause"; 4) the odd ransom sums, first $4.6 million, then $2.3 million, convert roughly into 2 million and 1 million English pounds...
High Bail. As the investigation proceeded, Byrne and Lynch were arraigned on federal extortion charges and held on bail totaling $700,000. They are also expected to be indicted on New York State kidnaping charges, which carry a minimum no-parole 15-year prison sentence. The bail was set so high because the prosecution claimed that either might flee to Ireland. Both have dual citizenship and the U.S. has no mutual extradition treaty with Ireland...
Authorities were checking out these claims by the charged men. There was no indication that they had any previous arrest records. Since Lynch was from Ireland and both men spoke with brogues, investigators also were exploring the possibility of any connection with Irish Republican Army terrorists. Some I.R.A. literature was found in Lynch's apartment...