Garda bug sought under 'culture of secrecy', Hutch lawyers tell Regency trial — Monaghan

(Pictured: Defence Counsel Mr Brendan Grehan SC. Photo: Collins) The permission to deploy a garda bugging device that recorded conversations between Regency Hotel murder accused Gerard The Monk' Hutch and ex Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall was sought under "a culture of secrecy" and with "an u

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At the Special Criminal Court, defence counsel for Gerard Hutch have argued that a garda audio recording of conversations between Hutch and former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall should be deemed inadmissible. Brendan Grehan SC submitted that the recording, captured on March 7 2016, was obtained in breach of the Criminal Justice Surveillance Act 2009, as Dowdall's vehicle crossed into Northern Ireland for…