Up to 12 bullets were fired at the Regency Hotel on the day David Byrne was shot dead, Gerry “The Monk” Hutch’s murder trial heard yesterday.
The rounds were discharged from three AK-47 style weapons and the cartridge cases matched the three firearms seized in Co Meath just over a month later. The Special Criminal Court had previously heard how six bullets had struck Byrne in the head, face, stomach, hand and legs.
Hutch, 59, denies he murdered the deceased, who was 33, on February 5, 2016. Det Garda David O’Leary, from the Garda Technical Bureau, yesterday told how a bullet went through the reception counter and lodged in a filing cabinet. The witness said he also found several discharged cartridge cases in the function room where the boxing weigh-in was being held.
