The Regency Hotel murder trial has heard a recording of ex-Sinn Fein Councillor Jonathan Dowdall tell Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch that the accused's "best move" was the "particular yokes used", in what the prosecution alleges is a reference to the three AK-47 assault rifles used by the gunmen who murdered Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne.
In the recording, Dowdall told Mr Hutch: "And d'ya know what the best move you did was. I know it's a small thing. I don't know if you thought of it, Gerard, at the time, I certainly didn't, but the best thing that happened was the particular yokes that was used. That in itself made some fuckin statement".
Mr Hutch replied: "Ah massive statement". He later says that "anyone with cop on would know immediately that cops don't use them".
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The accused tells Dowdall that it's "very hard to get involved where the Kinahans are concerned coz it doesn't work, the messenger gets it" and that he was "not gonna show a weak hand and go looking for peace".
