Judges at the Special Criminal Court trial of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch, who is accused of the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel, have ruled that the evidence to be given by former co-accused and now State's witness Jonathan Dowdall is admissible in the trial, despite defence objections.
The three judges were today delivering their ruling on a defence application challenging the admissibility of evidence to be given by ex-Sinn Fein councillor Dowdall, who was a former co-accused of Mr Hutch. Dowdall intends to give evidence in the coming days implicating Mr Hutch in the murder at the Regency Hotel.
Dowdall has already been sentenced to four years by the non-jury court for the lesser offence of facilitating the murder and is being assessed for the Witness Protection Programme when he gets out of prison.
