After ten weeks of high drama and admitted lies, you could be forgiven for wondering what exactly the State’s case against Gerry Hutch is.
When the Special Criminal Court trial began on the morning of Tuesday, October 18, no one in the room quite expected to hear these words from Prosecuting Counsel Sean Gillane:
“This deliberate killing was carried out without restraint by a group of people of whom Mr Hutch was one.”
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It came as a shock to everyone that the allegation against ‘The Monk' is that he was actually physically there - at the Regency Hotel - and even more shocking - that he allegedly confessed to being the person who shot David Byrne on February 5, 2016.
However, as the weeks went by and the case began to slowly unfold, it wasn’t immediately clear how and when we would come back to that point again.
But after getting to listen back to particular portions of an extremely dramatic, but oftentimes tedious bugged 10 hour conversation - and then hearing directly from State witness Jonathan Dowdall - the prosecution’s case has now begun to take shape.
And in a nutshell a central part of the evidence against Gerry Hutch is this: What he says in that bugged conversation.
Dowdall or no Dowdall this is evidence that is there on tape - and it’s a chat that Gerry Hutch doesn’t dispute occurred - although he may argue the context.
