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

The monk will go back to living his life with not much worry. Kinahan’s won’t touch him, I’m sure the monk has some regrets but so does the kinahans they’re now stuck and limited to where they can go. Can’t come back here, and have to avoid the Americans like the plague. The Byrnes have hardly any1 left at this stage and even Sadie wasn’t mouthing yesterday. It’s over the monk has being tried and walked free. The man’s not flashy and has lived a very private life. He’ll have no complaints going back to that.

This is what happens when you seek revenge instead of justice in front of highly educuated people.

And he still got away with it 😂 whatever you think about Gerry, it was the right verdict yesterday can’t go locking people up with zero evidence. Nobody ever believed Gerry was inside the regency. As others have said Daniel kinahan will regret killing Gary more than anyone else regrets the regency. You can’t buy loyalty and the Byrnes and kinahans can’t trust a soul.

They couldn’t even prove if he was in Ireland on the day of the shooting

It will certainly be interesting to see what happens from here.

I'd say he's more safe in Ireland than anywhere else.

Any gangster with a brain will stay a million miles away from this feud now.

If it was my family member tho.......

In the end tho ......the Hutch's have been decimated.

Does anyone know why Gary was in Spain?

I like many others assumed it was a family member. But yeh a randomer.

He’s always been marked, always had to look over his shoulder. Only regret from the regency they didn’t get more.

Did you hear the retired Garda assist commissioner this morning on radio? Lot of deflecting of blame going on and defending the Gardai patch etc.

What was also striking is that this man is now retired on presumably a good pension but said he'd first met Hutch as a new recruit on the beat. Which kinda says something.

I don't see any reason why they can't charge him with organization of a criminal game and possession of arms. Whats with the kangaroo court reference btw?, jury intimidation in previous criminal and IRA trials meant it was necessary to form the SCC

Yeah but they obviously wanted him to get with the bigger charge and failed.

by passing a driver theory test , you don't just walk in and buy one 🙄

If he goes back to Spain, I don't see the Spanish Police having the appetite to extradite him a second time.

If it's an EAW they will have no choice in the matter.

If the DPP can prove beyond reasonable doubt that Gerard is the leader of the OCG and ordered the hit on the Regency they will go after him. If they prove beyond reasonable doubt that he had possession of the shooters then they will go after him. However I think it's doubtful that they will meet the threshold. Amazing that they presented this case that he was one of the shooters and wanted him done for murder. The more you think about the scrote Johnny Dowadall and how the state placed faith in him the more it astounds you. it really is keystone cop kind of thing.

Hutch wouldn't have put Dowdall up to going States. It just wouldn't have made sense. To what end? They had little or nothing without Dowdall. What benefit would it have given Hutch to have someone testify against him. None. Hutch didn't and doesn't give to hoots about Dowdall. No way was he going to help him try and get out of a serious prison term.

I think Gerard will live out the rest of his days a free man but the cost to him and his family has been immense. They have been decimated because of his actions. As one gets older and wiser that kind of thing starts to hit you harder. He seems like the kind of guy from a distance who would carry that kind of thing with him. The man could write a book from this Christmas and it would be a bestseller.

I have zero sympathy for anyone involved in the administration of organised crime. The Hutch OCG has left plenty of bodies and families in tatters. You reap what you sow as they say. The Kinahans and certainly the hutches will cease to exist soon but there will be a group just a ruthless who will take over.

He could be, but there's no guarantee that the charge would stick.

It would have to go through the whole process again of deciding if what was said in the car 'up north' was allowable evidence or not. Just because it was ruled admissible in a murder case does not auto mean it would be ruled admissible on a less serious charge.

Also what was said by the judges yesterday could be a problem, opening up an issue as to whether he could get a fair trial when some judges have already stated that (paraphrasing) they are satisfied that he did handle the weapons.

I don't think the DPP will want to put JD on the stand again, and that may well be needed.

Finally Gerry Hutch obviously wasn't defending a charge of weapons possession or leader of a crime gang etc in this case so his side never attempted to rebut any of it. They ignored it. But if that was the charge, then they may have a rebuttal.