GERARD ‘THE MONK’ Hutch was one of two gunmen disguised in tactical gear who shot Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne in a “brutal and callous execution” as the victim scrambled on the ground of the Regency Hotel amongst “complete carnage”, and should be convicted of murder, a prosecution barrister has told his trial at the Special Criminal Court.
Ms Murphy said there was “no denial or pushback” from Mr Hutch in the audio against implications that he was centrally involved in the Regency attack. Mr Grehan submitted: “I challenge anyone to find any unambiguous admission to involvement in the Regency anywhere in the transcript.”He said there were lots of references in those recordings that contradicted the prosecution case and while there were numerous references where a court could conclude that the “Hutch gang” were involved in the Regency attack, he said, “the Hutch gang cannot be equated with Gerard Hutch”.
The trial has heard that three AK-47 assault rifles were found in the boot of a car following “an intervention” by gardai just a month after Mr Byrne was fatally shot in the Regency Hotel. Ms Murphy said the audio set out the key matters in the case against Mr Hutch. Clearly, she said, “the three yokes” were a reference to the AK-47′s, they were the “gift of Gerard Hutch to give”, showing he was in control and were his “to do with as he wishes”.
Gerard Hutch , last of The Paddocks, Clontarf, Dublin 3, denies the murder of Mr Byrne during a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016. Brendan Grehan SC, representing Mr Hutch, told Dowdall that the defence position was that he had told “two big lies” to the court in his direct evidence, namely that his client had collected keys cards for a room at the Regency Hotel from him and his father on Richmond Road on February 4 2016 and that Gerard Hutch had “confessed” to him in a park several days later.
The victim was shot by two of the tactical assailants and further rounds were delivered to his head and body. The status of Dowdall’s Witness Protection Programme application still remains unknown. The former electrician is being assessed for the WPP when he gets out of prison and a decision is not expected to be made about Dowdall’s admittance into the programme until the middle of January next year.
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