'Doesn't matter a damn' where bug travels once placed lawfully, Regency trial hears
(Pictured: Prosecution Counsel Sean Gillane SC. Photo: Collins) Conversations between Regency Hotel murder accused Gerard The Monk' Hutch and ex Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall that were captured by a garda bugging device are admissible in evidence and any issue about where the device travelle
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The Special Criminal Court heard arguments on the admissibility of audio surveillance recordings in the trial of Gerard Hutch, who denies murdering David Byrne at the Regency Hotel in February 2016. Prosecution counsel Sean Gillane SC argued that recordings captured by a garda bugging device placed lawfully on a vehicle within the State remain admissible regardless of where the vehicle subsequently travelled. The…
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