Man missing for 18 years found after fisherman spotted 'odd shape' in water

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missing for 18 years was discovered dead on the bed of Lough Erne after a local fisherman observed an “odd shape” on his sonar equipment, an inquest has heard.The body of digger driver Michael Anthony Lynch was found in his car on the bottom of the water in County Fermanagh in May 2020, after disappearing in January 2002.A diving company director had been using specialist equipment on the lake in February 2020 when a shape appeared near Corradillar Quay, in Lisnaskea, the Irish Mirror reports.READ MORE: Lost tapes show Chernobyl babies glowing green and men with horror scars In a statement read to the coroner’s court sitting at Laganside in Belfast on Wednesday (June 22), the man said he had been using “specialist side-imaging sonar” which creates 3D images of anything lying on the bottom.His statement read: “I was about 25 metres away from Corradillar Quay slipway when I saw an odd shape on the lough bed which I thought might have been a car.“I intended to come back and have a closer look, but due to work I didn’t get back as quickly as I’d hoped.“On May 16, 2020, I met a garda when I was out fishing and mentioned the possibility of a car to him as I was aware they were looking for a missing person and a car in Lough Erne.”He was able to take police to the location, whereupon the car was found and recovered on May 18, with Lynch’s remains inside.The missing man, better known as Tony, was identified by dental records and formally pronounced dead on May 20.The inquest heard how the father-of-four had last been seen alive at a hotel bar in Clones on January 6, 2002, after he had moved out of the Magheraveely family home in November 2001, to a flat in Clones, in order to deal with his alcohol problem.To stay up to date with.