Gerard Hutch denies David Byrne murder as trial evidence continues

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Gerard Hutch had pleaded not guilty to murdering David Byrne at the Special Criminal Court, with that plea reported on 20 January 2023.

In evidence reported on 20 January 2023, analyst Sarah Skedd said phone records gave no clear evidence Jonathan Dowdall met Hutch on either proposed date. A cell connection in Whitehall at 3.16pm on 7 February 2016 might have covered the park Dowdall identified, but the records did not establish that a meeting took place.

Dowdall testified that Hutch told him he and another man had shot Byrne at the Regency Hotel. That was Dowdall’s account; Hutch denied the murder, and the reports contain no verdict or later outcome.