Michael Lynn

The wife of former solicitor Michael Lynn has told his trial for theft that she did not know whether her husband was alive or dead for five days after his ...

She had to get a mattress into the prison for her husband to sleep on and half of the food she brought in had to be given to the prisoners who ran the place. She told the court she herself had her ovaries removed and was on a waiting list for a bilateral mastectomy. She said the police stood Mr Lynn in front of her, took off his top and told her to look and to see that he had not been beaten while in their custody. She told the court her mother and sister had died from cancer at the age of 42 as their family had a genetic predisposition to cancer. In 2010, after her father had died, she said they were advised in Portugal to visit a particular doctor in Sao Paolo in Brazil and in October 2010 she became pregnant. In 2008, she said he was in Portugal and she was flying over and back while also trying to mind her father. If they flew in and out of Europe, she said they were told they were on a watch list and had to hand in the address of the hotel they were staying in each time. She said she was diagnosed with cervical cancer when she was 26 and after meeting Mr Lynn, they had tried for five years to have a child to no avail. Ms Murphy said she had first travelled to Brazil in 2005 to accompany her husband on a business trip. She said Mr Lynn had his job and she had hers. She told her husband's defence counsel, Feargal Kavanagh, that she had been brought to the High Court by ACC Bank and by Bank of Scotland Ireland. She said she and her husband lived in Sandymount, near the hospital and they never lived in Glenlion House in Howth.