Gerry “The Monk” Hutch will today launch a bid to force the State to pay him up to €400,000 that he had agreed to fork out of his own pocket to win his murder case.
Legal sources have told the Irish Mirror that Mr Hutch, who was acquitted last month of the murder of Kinahan associate David Byrne, has a legal bill of hundreds of thousands of euro from his 52-day trial and now wants the taxpayer to foot the bill.
He will today have his claim for costs mentioned by his barrister Brendan Grehan SC at the Special Criminal Court – the same court that acquitted him three weeks ago today of the February 5, 2016 murder.