“It is a long association that he has with the party - It wasn't just the short time that he served as a councillor.”
The Finance Minister has said Sinn Féin must give an “adequate explanation” about its ties to Jonathan Dowdall in the wake of Gerry “The Monk” Hutch’s murder trial.we are seeing “more and more information come into the public domain about Jonathan Dowdall’s connection with Sinn Féin”.“It is a long association that he has with the party,” Mr McGrath said. “It wasn't just the short time that he served as a councillor.
“He is now a convicted criminal. He has been convicted of a crime of torture and has now been convicted of facilitating a murder at the Regency.”In 2018, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for torturing a man in January 2015, but this sentence was later reduced to six years. During the trial, the court heard recordings of conversations between Dowdall and Hutch in which Dowdall suggested Sinn Féin’s then-director of elections in Dublin, Brian Keane, quizzed him about a 2011 shooting incident that occurred at the house of Dowdall’s uncle.
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