BANGED UP

Disgraced solicitor Michael Lynn locked up alongside notorious Irish killer and Enoch Burke in Mountjoy Prison ‘palace’

The disgraced lawyer turned property developer was jailed for over 5 years last month

• Published: 18:12, 3 Mar 2024
• Updated: 18:12, 3 Mar 2024

ROGUE solicitor Michael Lynn is serving his time behind bars alongside one of the country’s most notorious gangsters.

The disgraced lawyer turned property developer was jailed for over 5 years two weeks ago for nicking almost €18 million from the banks.

He is now being held in the Progressive Unit of Mountjoy Prison where Limerick gang boss Dessie Dundon is being held plus transgender protest teacher Enoch Burke.

Reformed hardman Dundon has served 20 years of a life sentence for the 2003 murder of rival crime boss Kieran Keane.

He was among a gang who kidnapped, tortured and executed Keane and is due to be freed in the next year or two.

Prison sources say he has changed his ways and is now keeping his nose clean in custody and is no longer regarded as a threat to anyone.

Enoch Burke has done over 281 days in custody for contempt of court in a row over how to address transgender pupils at the Wilson Hospital School where he taught in Co Westmeath.

He has since been fired and has refused to give the courts an undertaking that he will stop protesting at the private secondary school.

Michael Lynn had multiple mortgages on several properties without telling each of the other banks.

He fled Ireland after the Celtic Tiger crash in 2008 after being reported to the Law Society for wrongdoing.

Gardai launched a full investigation and they tracked him down in Brazil in 2013 where he had started a new life.

Lynn was detained for over four years in a Brazil prison while he fought extradition.

He told his trial he endured a torrid time in jail and was treated in inhumane conditions that were in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights.

The Judge heard how he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder after witnessing serious incidents of violence in the Brazil prison, including the decapitation of a man.

He added he suffers from disturbed sleep, flashbacks and anxiety.

Lynn was brought back to Ireland in 2018 and had been held in Cloverhill since a jury found him guilty of theft last December.

Lynn’s companies had properties in Portugal, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia.

Bank accounts with €2.4 million which companies he was connected with had access to were recently frozen by the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau.

Lynn has denied moving money back to Ireland on his return from Brazil and claimed he was broke.

A Mountjoy Prison source said: “Michael Lynn is now being held in the Progressive Unit with all the most behaved prisoners in Mountjoy, including Dessie Dundon and Enoch Burke.

“It will feel like a palace compared to the conditions he was kept in, in Brazil.

“He has his own cell here and access to computers, a television and reading material. There is absolutely no trouble in the progressive unit.

“Dessie Dundon is a different man now and is waiting to get out to rebuild his life.”