When asked if he was happy to see Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch being acquitted last year of the murder of Kinahan gang member David Byrne at Dublin’s Regency Hotel in what was deemed the trial of the century, Gilligan said: 'Of course I was.'
Veteran criminal John Gilligan has revealed he was happy when Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch was acquitted of the Regency murder of David Byrne. Gilligan, 72, has also admitted he wished the Kinahan-Hutch feud, that claimed at least 18 lives, never happened.
“I only know Christy. I didn’t know his sons. Why have I got the right to give an opinion about them - the way everybody gives an opinion on me - when I don’t know the facts.” “If I had one wish,” Gilligan - who earned millions of euro in the 1990s when he flooded Dublin with cannabis - continued, “I wouldn’t waste it on any of them - but if I had ten wishes I’d wish that none of that trouble happened. And I mean just that feud - the feuds in the whole of Ireland.”
When it was put to him that Veronica Guerin was an innocent woman and mother who was shot dead in the prime of her life, he said “I don’t not show respect for that. That was a disgraceful thing to happen. One million percent, it shouldn’t have happened to her.”He said “Another seaman said, “Where you on the New Zealand Star and you were nicknamed Chocolate? Because I was eating chocolate. He said “You have a kid in New Zealand.” I don’t know the truth. I never enquired,” said Gilligan.
“Ireland’s gone mad - and all the young lads in Ireland. It’s a terrible shame because there’s no future in their lives with the things that they’re doing. They’re all going to end up in prison.
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