How Jonathan Dowdall became the key prosecution witness in the Hutch trial

The Special Criminal Court ruled that the evidence to be given by former co-accused turned State’s witness Jonathan Dowdall is admissible and he is expected to give evidence before the court on Monday.

In one letter, McGeever said that Dowdall had indicated he was willing to give evidence for the prosecution but he could not be a witness and an accused in the same bill of indictment. She added: “We wish also to emphasise that our client is requesting that the DPP enter a nolle prosequi in respect of the count of murder on the basis that he is not guilty of that offence and not on the basis of any quid pro quo.

But Det Supt McLoughlin insisted that the decision to downgrade the murder charge was made by the Director of Public Prosecutions in isolation to any statement Dowdall might make to gardaí about David Byrne’s murder. The timeline of these events is central to understanding the arguments being made. Dowdall was charged with Byrne’s murder on April 27th, 2021. Gardaí met Dowdall and his wife three times in 2022 – on May 18th, July 4th and July 12th – before taking a statement.

Grehan said Dowdall had agreed to give a statement where he had the most powerful possible incentive to implicate Hutch if he was going to succeed in getting the murder charge dropped. Ultimately, the barrister submitted that the former electrician effectively had the prosecution “over a barrel”. However, gardaí have rejected the claim that there was a “quid pro quo”, and “stubbornly insisted”, under rigorous cross examination by Mr Grehan, that the decision to downgrade the murder charge may have happened at the same time as Dowdall agreed to give a statement, but the two were unrelated.

No one cares about these people. All theatre to distract from the real criminals running the country.

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