Thomas McConnell found guilty of murdering Gareth Hutch

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Thomas McConnell was found guilty of murdering Gareth Hutch by the Special Criminal Court on 20 December 2024.

The court found that McConnell acted with Jonathan Keogh and others in a common plan to kill Hutch, although McConnell’s gun did not fire.

The murder took place on 24 May 2016 at Avondale House on North Cumberland Street in Dublin 1. McConnell had pleaded not guilty and faces the mandatory life sentence for murder.