Mr Hutch , last of The Paddocks, Clontarf, Dublin 3, denies the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne during a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016.
Mr Grehan has previously said his “core argument” is that gardaí were aware that Dowdall’s jeep was outside the jurisdiction for eight of the ten hours of these recordings and that the evidence harvested from that “illicit fruit” should be excluded from the trial. He argued that a District Court judge cannot grant authorisation for a surveillance device that could have effect outside the jurisdiction saying: “There is no point making rules unless those rules have to be applied and that is the very essence of the rule of law”.
Retired Detective Superintendent William Johnston, who was previously head of the National Surveillance Unit , has testified that he applied for authorisation to the District Court on February 17th, 2016, to employ the audio device on Dowdall’s jeep with a view to “monitoring” the conversations of Dowdall and his associates.
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