D-Day has finally arrived for Gerry Hutch, who is said to be so confident he will be found not guilty - that he already has his flights booked.If that happens it is likely Hutch, who remains a top target of the Kinahan cartel, will be facilitated with a swift exit out the side exit of the courts building - in the same way his nephew Patrick did in 2019.
However that doesn’t mean the judges won't decide that there is compelling evidence to convict him of the murder of David Byrne. Dowdall has supplied to the court what is termed ‘direct evidence,’ in that he is giving a first-hand account of alleged instances he had with the accused that the judges can determine to be credible or not.
The judges may decide that Dowdall is not a reliable narrator when it comes to other evidence in the case - but if they believe him on the park confession, then that’s it. The tapes formed the primary evidence against Hutch in the absence of Dowdall, who only came forward with new information months before the trial got underway.
The State claims that an almost seemingly throw-away line from Hutch to Dowdall on the tape of “Yeah he knows, yeah” is an admission to involvement in the Regency Hotel shooting. At times it was difficult to follow, and some of the evidence often pointed in the direction of other people as opposed to Gerry Hutch himself.
In my mind at least there are still quite a lot of ‘ifs’ ‘buts’ and ‘maybes’ at the end of this case - despite an obviously meticulous investigation by the gardai.
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