It was the bombshell opening to a case that has been described as the "gangland trial of the century".
On the opening day of the Gerry Hutch murder trial, the Special Criminal Court heard that he claimed he was one of the hit team that killed Kinahan ally David Byrne in the Regency Hotel.
State prosecutor Sean Gillane SC told the first day of the mammoth trial that disgraced former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall would say that Hutch confided in him about his role in the infamous hit.
