‘Ninja Man’ charged with stealing artefacts from Parliament museum

Street character Anthony Fitzpatrick Lynch, more popularly known as Ninja Man, has been charged with stealing over $100 000 in historical artefacts from the Museum of Parliament.

Appearing in the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court before Magistrate Manila Renee, the 69-year-old of no place of abode is accused of entering the museum as a trespasser between September 30 and October 11, 2023, and stealing property belonging to the state namely one briefcase valued at $500, two armorial badges valued at $13 200, a pistol and cutlass valued at $30 000, one cutlass valued at $250, one jacket valued at $10 000, one bow tie valued at $4 000, one cumberbund valued at $6 000, one pair of boots valued at $20 000, one cup valued at $4 000, one conch shell valued at $150, one pipe valued at $8 000, one rebate plane valued at $200, three hand drills valued at $600, and one awl valued at $200. The total value of those items was $97 100.

Lynch is also accused of stealing one belt buckle valued at $5 000 from the museum between October 14 and 16, 2023.

He was not required to plead to the indictable offences and was remanded to Dodds Prisons. He returns to court on December 21, 2023.

The artefacts were found missing after two members of staff reported that they went to the museum to recover a ballot box and realised there had been a break-in.

Among the missing objects were articles of clothing worn by the island’s first Prime Minister Errol Walton Barrow on the night Barbados became independent, along with some of the possessions of two other national heroes, Sir Grantley Adams and Samuel Jackman Prescod. (JB/EJ)