The new life for Jonatan Dowdall will cost Irish taxpayers just €100,000 – and he’ll have to stand on his own feet after a few months, it has emerged.
A day after the bombshell news emerged that the former Sinn Fein councillor is to give evidence in the murder trial of Gerry ‘The Monk” Hutch, sources have confirmed to The Star/Mirror that it is unlikely the State will buy him a new home.
Instead, the sources – who have an in-depth knowledge of the Witness Security Programme that Dowdall (44) is being assessed for – revealed that it is more likely that the state will rent him a property for a few months.
