Canada, Ex-Hells Angel named in long-unsolved murder

OFF THE WIRE
By Paul Cherry, Montreal Gazette
Jeffrey Albert Lynds was charged earlier this year with the Jan 24 shooting deaths of two men in Notre Dame de Grace.
MONTREAL - A man already charged in connection with a double-murder in Montreal has been named as the killer in a long unsolved homicide in Nova Scotia.
Jeffrey Albert Lynds, 42, a former member of the Hells Angels has been named in an indictment filed in Nova Scotia concerning the 1999 death of Randy Mersereau, also a former member of the biker gang’s Nova Scotia chapter.
Lynds has not been charged with Mersereau’s death. But he is named as the person behind Mersereau’s murder in a charge alleging a Nova Scotia man named Gerald MacCabe acted as an accessory after the fact to Mersereau’s murder. MacCabe was charged in a Nova Scotia court of Thursday.
Lynds was charged earlier this year with the Jan 24 shooting deaths of two men in Notre Dame de Grace. His case in Montreal court is scheduled to return before a judge on Jan. 11.
The victims, Kirk Murray, 47, and Anthony Onesi, 51, both lived on the South Shore. They were shot to death as they sat inside a car parked in a lot outside a McDonald’s restaurant on St. Jacques St. W.
Two brothers, Timothy, 45, and Robert William Simpson, 48, have been charged along with Lynds in the double murder in NDG. The brothers appeared in Montreal last week for a formality hearing where one of the brothers complained he was having difficulty finding a lawyer. He said he has already switched lawyers six times. Both men are expected to return to Montreal court on Dec. 8.
Yesterday, the RCMP was searching a wooded area in Nova Scotia’s Colchester County as part of their investigation. They are searching for Mersereau’s remains.
Sgt. Brigdit Leger, of the RCMP, said the search of the area is expect to continue Friday and carry on until the end of the weekend. She said the RCMP will use forensics experts and members from its various detachments in Nova Scotia to help in the search.
She said Mersereau’s body has yet to be found.
The RCMP had also searched a different part of Nova Scotia in October. Leger said that search was based on “new information that came to light” in the RCMP’s investigation of Mersereau’s disappearance.
Leger said that only MacCabe has been charged in connection with Mersereau’s death.
Mersereau was a longtime Hells Angel before he left the gang in the late 1990’s, reportedly to form a rival organization that would traffic in drugs in Nova Scotia. He was last seen alive on Oct. 31, 1999. His car was later recovered along a highway in Nova Scotia between Halifax and Truro. Weeks later, Dany Kane, a man who was a member of the Rockers, a Montreal-based puppet gang for the Hells Angels, while also working as a police informant for the Surete du Quebec, told investigators Mersereau had been shot to death. However, Kane, who has since died, did not know the whereabouts of the body.
Before leaving the Hells Angels, Mersereau had strong ties to the biker gang’s members in Quebec. He and three other members of the Halifax chapter were acquitted, in 1987, in a high profile murder trial in Montreal involving the deaths of five Hells Angels who were purged from the gang. The five bikers were killed at a Hells Angels bunker near Sherbrooke in what came to be known as the Lennoxville Purge.
More details to come.
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