The police continued their search without success yesterday for missing Mandeville businessman Richard Lyn and his wife Julia at the Martin's Hill dump in Manchester.

The dump, located two miles outside of Mandeville, has been the scene of an intensive search by some 30 policemen and policewomen from the Jamaica Constabulary Force and the Caribbean Search Centre.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Les Green told The Gleaner that the task of searching through the tons of rotting garbage has been tedious. The search of the dump, which started on Thursday aided by specially trained dogs, has so far revealed no clues as to the fate of the Lyns, according to the police on the scene.

DCP Green is maintaining, however, that the police have strong information leading them to believe that two barrels containing substantial evidence about the Lyns were dumped at the site.

He said that he was optimistic that, when the search is completed within the next few days, the police will make a breakthrough in the case. In the meantime, a heavy-duty tractor continues to move mounds of garbage which the police said will be spread out and then searched by hand.

Vehicles recovered

So far the Lyns' two motor vehicles, a Toyota station wagon and a Rav4, have been recovered. Four persons have been taken into custody, including the prime suspects, Kevin Powell and Lennox Swaby. Swaby has been charged with illegal possession of ammunition along with his mother, Julia White.

Both Lennox and Powell are scheduled to be transferred to Kingston on the weekend according to ACP Green, where they will be questioned.

- Angelo Laurence