Jonathan Dowdall, a former Sinn Féin councillor and State's witness in the trial of Gerard Hutch at the Special Criminal Court, has denied characterisations that he is a master manipulator. Under cross-examination by defence counsel Brendan Grehan SC on 13 December 2022, Dowdall rejected suggestions that he had told two significant falsehoods in his direct evidence. The proceedings concern the murder of David Byrne during a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel on 5 February 2016. Dowdall, who has pleaded guilty to facilitating Byrne's murder, expressed deep regret for torturing and waterboarding a man at his home in 2015. He acknowledged his involvement in the Hutch-Kinahan feud mediation efforts and clarified that dissident republicans, rather than the Provisional movement, were involved in such discussions. The cross-examination also addressed Dowdall's previous appearance on radio, where he denied criminal involvement, and allegations concerning weapons transfers and bomb-making discussions captured in audio recordings.
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