Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch denies murder charge at trial

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Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch denied the murder charge at the Special Criminal Court, reported on 17 November 2022. The report says judges ordered ten hours of recordings to be played as a block while the admissibility challenge remained unresolved.

The recordings captured conversations between Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall on 7 March 2016. The defence argued that Dowdall’s vehicle was outside the State for about eight of the ten hours and sought to have the audio excluded.

David Byrne was shot at the Regency Hotel during a boxing weigh-in on 5 February 2016. Hutch denies murdering him; the prosecution described the recordings as central to its case.