A detective superintendent gave evidence related to four shootings, including the still 'open investigation' into an attack on Patrick Hutch Junior.
A SENIOR GARDA has given evidence to the Regency Hotel murder trial of four shootings that have taken place during the Hutch-Kinahan feud, including the still “open investigation” into an attack on Patrick Hutch Junior.
Hutch’s two co-accused – Paul Murphy , of Cherry Avenue, Swords, Co Dublin and Jason Bonney , of Drumnigh Wood, Portmarnock, Dublin 13 have pleaded not guilty to participating in or contributing to the murder of Mr Byrne by providing access to motor vehicles on 5 February 2016. “The gunman who fired the shots approached Mr Moore [after he was injured and on the ground] and was about to inflict further shots when there appeared to be a realisation that he was not the intended target,” said the officer.At the time, Det Supt Gallagher said Moore was training boxers within the boxing stable of MGM and that the gym was owned at the time by ex-professional boxer Matthew Macklin and Daniel Kinahan.
He did not cooperate with the Garda investigation into the shooting and the matter is still an open investigation, said Det Supt Gallagher. Dowdall told the court that at some point Gary Hutch was “more or less held hostage” and Patrick had to “hand himself up for a punishment shooting”.He added: “Patrick went with a family member and was shot and was brought to the Mater hospital. I was told it was Daniel Kinahan himself who shot him.”
The ex-politician added that Patrick was shot by Kinahan “because he was blamed for what happened to that boxer”.Gary Hutch shooting Det Supt Gallagher also gave evidence today about the shooting of Gary Hutch, the eldest son of Patsy Hutch and nephew of Gerard Hutch. The witness said that Edward Hutch, a taxi driver and brother of Gerry Hutch and Patsy Hutch, was returning to his home on the night and as he exited his taxi and entered his house a number of males alighted from a BMW and fired a number of shots, before pursuing him into his house and shooting him.
He agreed with the lawyer that no one had been brought to justice for the murder of Edward Hutch and that the file remains open. Murphy is accused of helping a criminal gang murder Mr Byrne at the Regency Hotel in Dublin almost seven years ago. It is the prosecution’s case that a silver Ford transit van containing six people left the Regency Hotel after the shooting, including three persons dressed in tactical garda clothing.
Murphy’s legal team last week submitted an application for the CCTV footage to be excluded from the trial.
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