A garda has claimed privilege when asked if a vehicle that allegedly carried Gerry Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall was being tracked.
The development came during Hutch’s trial where the 59-year-old denies he murdered Kinahan gang associate David Byrne at Dublin’s Regency Hotel in February 2016. He listened intently as his defence team cross-examined members of the Garda National Surveillance Unit.
One officer, referred to as Member CZ, declined to say if a vehicle allegedly carrying Hutch was being tracked at the time it was observed. The officer stated they observed Dowdall, who, along with his father has already been convicted of facilitating the murder, as being the driver of the 161D Toyota Land Cruiser while Hutch was a front-seat passenger.
