Gerry The Monk Hutch is on trial this week over the 2016 killing of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.
The trial of Mr Hutch, 59, began on Tuesday morning before the non-jury, Special Criminal Court, where he is charged with the gangland murder of the Kinahan cartel associate, 34, at Dublin’s Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016.
The Monk had been at large prior to an arrest in 2021 when he was picked up by Spanish police. He pleaded not guilty to the murder of David Byrne on Tuesday.