Jonathan Dowdall said he believes Gerry Hutch only admitted to him he’d killed David Byrne at the Regency Hotel because he got the wrong man, a court heard yesterday.
Speaking at the Special Criminal Court, the state witness claimed that a desperate Monk – who he admits he wasn’t close friends with – did confess because he “missed Daniel Kinahan and killed another person”. Dowdall made the claim that “things went horribly wrong” for the accused and that’s why he confided in him in a park days after the Regency Hotel attack and told him he’d shot Byrne.
He told defence counsel Brendan Grehan on the fourth day of his cross-examination: “He went in to plan to kill Daniel Kinahan. He missed Daniel Kinahan and he killed another person.
