'I was caught red-handed' - Shane Rowan who bought AK-47s from Regency shooting breaks his silence
The man caught with the rifles used in the Regency Hotel shooting today breaks his silence - and claims he agreed to pay €30,000 for the weapons.
Garda ballistic experts later determined that the rifles discovered in the boot of Rowan's car were the same ones used by the tactical team that shot and killed Kinahan cartel associate David Byrne in the foyer of the Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016. Rowan, who served concurrent sentences for possession of the firearms and IRA membership, claims that at the time he didn’t think the Hutch gang would be stupid enough to keep the guns after the Regency hit.
Unbeknownst to Rowan at the time, gardai from the National Surveillance Unit tracked his every movement from his home in Co Donegal all the way down to the Clarehall Shopping Centre in North Dublin - where he met with Patsy Hutch on March 9. Speaking for the first time about the sequence of events - Rowan told us that he barely spoke to Patsy Hutch in that car - and in fact he was shocked to even be meeting with him.
“It normally takes 20 minutes. Except this time it took like two and a half hours or something. Then you just go back, it’s good luck and away you go. You don’t speak to these people. You don’t try to give them anything about you. You’re just there to do a transaction and away you go.” “I was battering the steering wheel with my hands and saying “f*ck, f*ck I’ve been caught,” he said. “I thought, 'What will I do now?' So I cut a left and I thought I will dump those things out of the f*cking boot and if they catch me, they catch me. At least them things won’t be in it.”
“You’re kind of getting your unit a little bit of firepower. That’s basically it. You can have small weaponry but it’s not really good for anything. It’s heavy artillery. You can never have too many.”
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