At the non-jury court on Thursday, the final 45 minutes were played of a 10-hour audio recording of conversations between Mr Hutch and Dowdall. The State’s case is that the men were recorded by a garda bugging device on March 7th, 2016, while allegedly driving back in Dowdall’s Toyota Land Cruiser jeep from a meeting in Strabane, Co Tyrone.
Referring to the Kinahans, Dowdall asks Mr Hutch: “How did they get so strong or so big when they were two brothers and a father, and the two brothers weren’t f****n’ criminals as the rest of the young fellas that came up?”“Everyone was full of promises and stuff like that ya know and they made a few quid but they start makin’ big money about two years ago”.
Mr Hutch said: “Them sub machine guns, them Uzis and all that they’re all lethal. They’re no good”, to which Dowdall replied: “They’re not worth a b****x”. Transcripts of the recordings, which are being relied on by the prosecution, were displayed on several screens in the courtroom and have been described as “part of the core” of State’s case in the trial of Mr Hutch , last of The Paddocks, Clontarf, Dublin 3, who denies the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne during a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel on February 5th, 2016.
The Special Criminal Court has viewed CCTV footage of what the State says is Mr Hutch making two separate journeys to Northern Ireland with Dowdall on February 20th and March 7th, 2016, just weeks after Mr Byrne was murdered.
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