BREAKING: Gerry Hutch has walked free from court after he was found not guilty of murdering David Byrne.
The prosecution had claimed that he was one of two gunmen who shot the Kinahan associate at a boxing event at the Regency Hotel in Dublin in February 2016.
The case against Mr Hutch boiled down to whether the judges believed the testimony of State-turned witness Jonathan Dowdall.In the end, the judges were not convinced by Dowdall's testimony and could find nothing in the case to support his allegation that Mr Hutch was one of the hitmen.
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