Gerard Hutch’s Regency murder trial hears Dowdall’s recordings

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Gerard Hutch’s trial for the murder of David Byrne at the Special Criminal Court was reported on 26 November 2022; the court heard covert recordings of conversations between Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall.

Dowdall told Hutch that the “particular yokes” used had made a statement. The prosecution alleged the term referred to the three assault rifles used in the Regency Hotel attack; Hutch denied murdering Byrne.

The recordings also captured discussion of mediation in the Hutch-Kinahan feud. The trial was continuing, and the admissibility of the recordings had not been decided in the reports.