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

As everyone has seen in last day he now looks exactly like people would remember Gerry Hutch to look - just a bit older.

Grehan SC paid privately. Hutch applying for legal costs of trial next month but can’t for obvious reasons allowing for judges comments about him having control of AKs a day or two after shooting see him getting all his costs

This trial went on for months. Can you show (apart from Dowdall) one piece of evidence that showed hutch as the shooter. As for Dowdall, a proven liar who said hutch did confess but conveniently enough in a park with no cameras and he couldn't remember what day it was. I can see how easily it is to forget the day ,I mean I'm sure fellas are confessing murders to him several days a week! Somebody was on here complaining about the amount of money the state will have to pay hutch for his legal costs, it pales in comparison to the amount this complete ballsup of an investigation and trial has cost!

id be near sure whoever it was will be in for either a big promotion or a gold plated pension and its be the usual 'lessons learned going forward' type of crap...

The Monk is a romantic criminal figure of bygone age. Sounds like his family is bad news.

Been mentioned by a few people already, but the EAW/Spanish extradition is the most puzzling part. The bar for extradition is correctly set really high, you can't just extradite on a fishing expedition but must show the court evidence that a conviction is likely.

But as know most of the evidence in this case couldn't have been part of the extradition hearing as JD hadn't turned yet. So either they lied to the Spanish, or something happened to cause them to lose faith in that initial evidence.

One likely result is that it will make Spanish to Ireland extradition a bit more difficult. The chosen Abogado will have a nice easy precedent to show that the gardai/dpp case isn't to be automatically trusted.

But Dowdall was a known and proven liar years before this trial commenced. He went live on national radio, Joe Duffy show, and said he had no involvement in criminality! This despite the fact himself and his father kidnapped and tortured and threatened to chop up the terrified man and feed him to their dogs who were barking at the hooded man!

I wouldn't think so, on what basis could they ban him, he is a free man here, found not guilty, so I'd say it would be difficult to keep him out, passport violations is the only reason I can think of.

He is or at least was an armed robber, he doesn't traffic drugs and keeps a low profile. There is no evidence of anything the papers have ever wrote about him. Go watch is interview on RTE years ago, he's got that charm and brazenness to his personality. He's smart, when every gangster ran from CAB he made a settlement and has been able to keep his proceeds from crime legitimately. The new bred of gangster here are absolutely ruthless including his family.

We hold up criminal/gangster characters in TV shows and films, he's a real life one its no surprise he has so much support.

Why? The Byrne/Kinahin gangs. Off he goes but he's not stupid. They could easily go after him in revenge for the Regency.

Not sure if the Kinahan/Byrnes are overly interested in Hutch, they might take him out if they had a free pop but it looks like they may be specifically interested in other family members and friend.

The feud is largely over isn't it? When was the last murder 2019?

Hutch out doing his shopping yesterday in Dublin, doesn't seem to worried.

All the commentary I've listened too from journalists and legal experts all are asking the same question that it beggars belief how this the DPP felt this case had enough evidence. DPP have serious questions to answer to on this.

Outside of the wire taps which were illegal and had hutch talking very vaguely about the regency and kinahans there was nothing to place him as a shooter. Dowdall only came forward a week before the start of the trial.

Not everyone will have a brilliant legal mind like Grehan to shred a witness committing perjury.