Gardai have recovered records from a tracker device deployed on former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall's jeep which were believed to have been destroyed, the Regency Hotel murder trial has heard.
The Garda Assistant Commissioner of Crime and Security was expected to give evidence this morning. However, Mr Gillane said he was not in a position to call Asst Comm Orla McPartlin yet and the trial has been adjourned until 2pm. Retired Detective Inspector Ciaran Hoey testified last Wednesday that he carried out a review of all the data information held by the NSU in early 2020 to ensure they were in compliance with the Surveillance Act of 2009. Data records older than three years that were not required for prosecution or appeal were destroyed in order to improve storage and the security of data, he said.
Mr Hoey said he didn’t make Asst Comm McPartlin aware that the current trial was proceeding, nor that the vehicle was related to Jonathan Dowdall or Gerard Hutch. Asked by Mr Grehan if Ass Comm McPartlin should have been alerted to the fact that the records may be "pertinent" to the trial, Mr Hoey said she wasn't as he did not think it was "pertinent".
The prosecution case is that Mr Hutch had asked Jonathan Dowdall to arrange a meeting with provisional republicans to mediate or resolve the Hutch-Kinahan feud due to the threats against the accused's family and friends. Dowdall had driven Gerard Hutch to meet the republicans on February 20, 2016, Mr Gillane told the court.
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