Dowdall says Hutch was ‘in a panic’ when they met three days after Regency Hotel shooting
Armed gardaí were outside and inside the Criminal Courts of Justice building where the trial of Mr Hutch and two co-accused has been continuing since mid-October. Mr Dowdall was brought into the courtroom via the jury entrance, rather than the public entrance or cells.
On Monday, Dowdall said, when he and his father were driving back from Strabane in Co Tyrone on February 4th 2016, his father took a call from Patsy Hutch. He learned his father had been asked by Patsy Hutch to book a room at the Regency Hotel that evening but had forgotten. He said he and his father were told later that evening to leave the key at Richmond Road and, when they got there, Gerard Hutch arrived and his father gave him the room key cards.
He said Mr Hutch was “in a panic” and had said it was “them” in the hotel and he wasn’t happy about the shooting of the young lad David Byrne and about David Byrne being killed. Asked by Mr Gillane if Mr Hutch had said who it was that shot Mr Byrne, Dowdall replied: “He said it was him and Mago Gately.”
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