The Irish Mirror bumped into Hutch (60) as he emerged from a shop while out on his moped in Dublin this week
Free man Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch told the Irish Mirror that he’d probably chat over a pint - but will never do an interview.
“Go to watch the f*cking boxing and you’re all over the paper. But it’s a story for someone and someone who took the photo. What does he get, 50 quid a pop. I understand,” he said. Asked about how he felt to be a free man, Hutch repeatedly said “I wouldn’t comment.” It is understood that Hutch feels the State stitched him up for a crime he did not commit - namely shooting dead Kinahan cartel associate David Byrne in Dublin’s Regency Hotel in February 2016. His remaining in Dublin ever since is a clear message to his enemies and to those who prosecuted him that he’s now not going anywhere.
Dressed in a blazer and sporting a large grey beard and long-hair, Hutch, who had spent the past year and a half in custody, calmly walked down the street, surrounded by a crowd of media and members of the public, saying nothing before getting into a taxi. The evidence of State witness Jonathan Dowdall, she said, could not be relied upon and she stated that the former Sinn Fein councillor, who had his charge of murder dropped, must be treated with “scepticism and extreme care.”
In one portion of the tape Hutch talks to Dowdall about “throwing” the yokes up as a “present” to Republicans up north, and this mirrors what happened two days later - on March 9, 2016, when IRA man Shane Rowan was caught with them, having earlier met Patsy Hutch at the Malahide Industrial Estate. And in fact she said that the evidence on the 10 hour tapes pointed to the opposite in that it establishes on the words of Hutch that the guns were being kept in Buckingham Village and that his brother Patsy had them. Gerry Hutch she said had difficulty in getting his brother to get them out of there.
Hutch had responded by saying “Yeah he knows yeah,” but the judges determined this doesn’t establish that Hutch was actually present in the hotel that day either. Ms Justice Burns said the portions of the audio that the prosecution seek to rely on do not give rise to Hutch being at the Regency or that he was a shooter - which is the charge laid before him.
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