A SHARP-EYED POLICEMAN RECOGNISED THE LEADER OF A
A SHARP-EYED POLICEMAN RECOGNISED THE LEADER OF A GANG OF
ROBBERS FROM A PHOTO-FIT DESCRIPTION AND NABBED THEM ALL JUST BEFORE
THEY WERE ABOUT TO PULL-OFF ANOTHER RAID.
SEAN LYNCH LED FOUR ARMED ROBBERIES OVER A TWO MONTH PERIOD
BEFORE HIS CAPTURE IN MARCH LAST YEAR.
HE FIRST STRUCK IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AT THE ORIENT SERVICE
STATION ON HIGH ROAD, LEYTON ON JANUARY 16, LAST YEAR.
THE COURT HEARD THAT LYNCH AND ANOTHER MAN ATTACKED THE
MANAGER, MR THOMAS CAMPER WITH A LARGE KNIFE BEFORE FLEEING WITH AN
UNDISCLOSED SUM OF MONEY.
‘THE MANAGER WAS CUT ABOUT THE HANDS AND REQUIRED 30 STITCHES’
SAID MR DAVID FISHER, PROSECUTING.
THE OTHER MAN WAS NEVER APREHENDED.
IN THE SAME MONTH, JANUARY 24, LYNCH TOGETHER WITH NIGEL
SKULLY RAIDED THE MEDICAL CENTRE IN LORDSHIP LANE, TOTTENHAM.
‘THESE TWO MEN BELIEVED THERE WAS GOING TO BE A WAGES
DELIVERY OF SOME THOUSANDS OF POUNDS.
‘ SAID MR FISHER,’THEY WENT
THERE WITH THE INTENTION OF ROBBING THOSE DELIVERING THE WAGES BUT IT
APPEARS THEY GOT THE WRONG DAY.
‘
IN THE END LYNCH AND SKULLY GOT AWAY WITH A MERE #30.
TWO DAYS LATER LYNCH AND SKULLY, THIS TIME WEARING BALACLAVA
MASKS HELD UP A BOOKMAKERS IN LORDSHIP LANE AND MADE AWAY WITH #850.
THE TWO BANDITS BURST INTO THE VOLUNTEERS PUBLIC HOUSE ON
CHESTNUT ROAD, IN TOTTENHAM AT ABOUT MIDNIGHT ON FEBRUARY 1ST, LAST
YEAR.
‘MR LYNCH KNOCKED ON THE DOOR AND SAID HE HAD FORGOTTEN HIS
COAT.
‘ SAID MR FISHER.
‘HE PRODUCED A LARGE KNIFE WITH A BLADE ABOUT
10 INCHES LONG, AND SAID ‘DON’T MOVE OR YOU’RE DEAD.
‘
HE THEN ORDERED MANAGER MR JOHN DOCHERTY TO TIE UP HIS
ASSISTANT ANGELA MURPHY WITH BANDAGES.
‘HE WAS THEN TIED UP HIMSELF’ SAID COUNSEL.
LYNCH WAS THEN JOINED BY SKULLY AND THE PAIR RANSACKED THE PUB
STEALING ABOUT #600.
PC BARRY WALKER BECAME SUSPICIOUS WHEN HE SAW THREE YOUTHS
LOITERING OUTSIDE A.
R.
DENNIS’ BOOKMAKERS ON LORDSHIP LANE,
TOTTENHAM, MARCH 2ND, LAST YEAR.
WHEN THEY WERE JOINED BY SEAN LYNCH HE INSTANTLY RECOGNISED HIM
FROM A PHOTO FIT DESCRIPTION PROVIDED BY MR DOCHERTY THE PREVIOUS
MONTH AND POLICE MOVED IN TO ARREST ALL FIVE.
A VARIETY OF STICKS AND KNIVES WERE FOUND ON THE SUSPECTS.
GARY GODWIN, 24, OF KINGSDOWN RD, LEYTONSTONE, AND MARK PATTEN,
OF BERESFORD RD, NEWINGTON GREEN, ADMITTED CONSPIRACY TO ROB ON MARCH
2ND AND WERE JAILED FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
SEAN LYNCH, 24, OF COLLEGE CLOSE, MEDIAN RD, CLAPTON WAS JAILED
FOR SEVEN YEARS AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO THREE ROBBERIES, CONSPIRACY
TO ROB AND AGGRAVATED BURGLARY.
NIGEL SKULLY,23, OF CROYDON, BROADWATER FARM ESTATE, TOTTENHAM
ADMITTED TWO ROBBERIES, AGGRAVATED BURGLARY AND CONSPIRACY TO ROB, HE
WAS JAILED FOR SIX YEARS.
HIS COMMON LAW WIFE, MARINA WARD, 27, OF THE SAME ADDRESS WAS PUT
ON PROBATION FOR THREE YEARS AFTER ADMITTING HANDLING STOLEN GOODS.
PASSING SENTENCE JUDGE MACHIN QC TOLD THEM ‘ALL OF YOU ARE YOUNG
AND CAPABLE OF WORKING HARD BUT THESE ARE OFFENCES THAT CANNOT BE
OVERLOOKED.
‘
ENDS.
