Jonathan Dowdall testified Hutch said he shot David Byrne

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Jonathan Dowdall testified at the Special Criminal Court on 12 December 2022 that Gerard Hutch said he and another man shot David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.

Dowdall also testified that Hutch said he was unhappy about Byrne’s killing. Hutch had pleaded not guilty to Byrne’s murder. Dowdall was serving a four-year sentence for facilitating the murder by helping make a hotel room available to the perpetrators.