The case as to whether Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch will get his legal fees back after being found not guilty of murder is up for mention in the Special Criminal Court tomorrow.
The 60-year-old, who walked free from court last month, could get more than €250,000 back if the judges side with his application.
Hutch denied the murder of Kinahan gang member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016.
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His two co-accused, Paul Murphy, 61, from Swords, Co Dublin and Jason Bonney, 52, of Portmarnock, Dublin, were found guilty of acting as getaway drivers.
More than seven years on from the feud shooting, no one has been convicted of killing Byrne 33.
According to a legal source, Hutch could be in line to get the big payback in costs after his acquittal following a 51-day trial. The insider said: “Gerry Hutch was not on legal aid. The legal fees are always substantial in a trial that goes on for so long.
“You are talking about roughly €4,000 a day for junior and senior counsel alone for a murder case, that would be the guts of a quarter a million. There would be 60 days or more of work before the trial even began.
“If you had a commercial case that ran for that many days you would be going into the millions, there’s a phenomenal difference.”
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