Jervis Lynch

Jervis Lynch 26 years, Magherlin, Co. Armagh, found dead by his parents at their home on 6 January 1991. He had been shot three times in the head and body. His parents and sister had been at Mass that evening and found Jervis lying on the porch of their home when they returned. The RUC said they were treating the killing as a sectarian murder, and were trying to trace a car stolen from the car park at Glenavon F.C. in Lurgan around 7.20pm. Mr Lynch worked as a machine operator at a factory in Lurgan. 

The UVF claimed responsibility for the murder and said their victim was a member of a republican group. This was totally rejected by his family. At an inquest into the killing in December 1991 it was revealed the bullets used were from a high velocity weapon. An RUC detective told the hearing that no one had been charged with the killing. 

The weapon used by the gunmen in the murder was one of hundreds imported into the North of Ireland from South Africa in 1987 by unionist/loyalist paramilitaries, with the knowledge and the assistance of various British intelligence forces.