Dowdall denies he is "master manipulator"

Jonathan Dowdall, a former Sinn Féin councillor and State's witness in the trial of Gerard Hutch at the Special Criminal Court, has denied characterisations that he is a master manipulator. Under cross-examination by defence counsel Brendan Grehan SC on 13 December 2022, Dowdall rejected suggestions that he had told two significant falsehoods in his direct evidence. The proceedings concern the murder of David Byrne…