Gangland Shootings part 4 - Read OP before posting - updated 30/12/23

Regardless of where him or Dowdall end up I doubt their thinking what people on boards.ie think of them & their family

Looks like he has the same fashion sense as b.o.b

Oops, wrong there Pal!

Embarrassing.

Told ya!

There's plenty of robust legislation, no need for more.

But breaking down what you said above...........firstly he wasn't charged with conspiring to commit murder as the head of an organised crime gang. So if he wasn't charged, he can hardly be convicted.

Secondly, there doesn't seem to have been enough evidence in the trial to show he organised the murder. There was an inference on tape that he might have done so but an inference isn't really enough to hang a conviction on. The judge said it was possible Patsy organised it and Gerry could have stepped in later.

The problem is that Hutch was only charged with murder. Maybe he should have been charged with a rake of lesser offences such as gun possession etc. to increase the likelihood of a conviction.

If I was Jerry, I'd be disappearing very quickly. Like right now. Firstly to avoid rearrest and secondly, to avoid a lead injection.

My thoughts on where it all goes from here. Gerard Hutch doesn't need to work or commit crime to survive. He's a wealthy man, who was dragged into the shenanigans in Drumcondra to whatever degree, by grief and the threat of a wipe out of more members of his family. I believe the Regency, it's lead up and aftermath will indicate strongly to him that he doesn't have a team of people in his family or associates that would be capable of existing as a serious crime outfit that could stay ten steps ahead of the policing capabilities of current forces.

On the opposing side of the fence, I believe Daniel Kinahan has realised that he bit off more than he could chew by supporting the Byrne crusade to have the Regency hit team and accomplices killed. It has cost him everything, and with the spotlight firmly on them in Dubai, their finances being targeted and their structures dismantled on their home territory, Daniel's participation in this feud in my best estimation, is over. Judging by the pause or stop in targeting the Hutch crew, and with the prisons stacked with their hit teams, it feels as if Liam Byrne has lost the hunger to man the murder machine from his base in exile.

I believe this is it. Gerry is now permanently retired, Patsy will continue directing the sale of tablets with his son and the regency shooters will fail in their feeble attempts to fill the vacuum left in Dublin's drug scene.

Dowdall, God love him...will die a nervous wreck, rueing his poor decisions.

Anyone else of the opinion that this was the desired result for some senior gardai?

GangsterGossip themselves posted here after Monks arrest in Spain something along the lines of ;

“If Gerry’s convicted, everything will be leaked on the store street dicks(detectives)”

Can’t seem to find the post now but given the links between Harry and Spud, it wouldn’t surprise me.

He was up for murder, not facilitating murder two different charges entirely,

Had he been charged with facilitating the murder then he would have gone down

No chance it's all gone up north now and that was the plan from day one from the hotel shooting.. NI wanted the lot.

Are u the full shilling gusser? Try to be honest, ta in advance!

Just watching the Virgin Media news. The head on your man walking with Hutch on the way out of the courts. Jesus he screams 'scumbag'. Who was that? Not a good look.

its a random addict who had nothing better to be doing. there is a video on whatsapp of the monk telling him to go away lol

i personally know the guy in question having lived near him in rialto - if often spotted at the fatima luas. not a great look for gerry tho.. could have done without