Gerry Hutch, known as “The Monk,” has been acquitted of murdering a man at a Dublin hotel in 2016. The judge suggested the shooting was planned by his brother Patsy Hutch. Two other men were found guilty of facilitating the murder.

Gerry Hutch, also known as “The Monk”, has been acquitted of the murder of David Byrne, who was shot six times at a Dublin hotel in 2016 during a boxing weigh-in event. Hutch was the alleged head of the Hutch-Kinahan gangland feud in Ireland, which has resulted in multiple casualties. He was found not guilty after a 52-day trial at Ireland’s non-jury Special Criminal Court, during which he did not give evidence. Hutch’s brother, Patsy Hutch, was suspected of planning the Regency shooting, but the judge believed that Gerry Hutch had “stepped in” as the head of the family. Two other men, Paul Murphy and Jason Bonney, were found guilty of facilitating Byrne’s murder. Additionally, former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall provided evidence as a prosecution witness, but the defence team dismissed his testimony as unreliable and flawed. The evidence presented against Hutch included taped conversations between Hutch and Dowdall and a Garda interview with Dowdall. The judge expressed concern over Dowdall’s character, emphasising that his patterns of lying made it necessary for the court to approach his truthfulness with caution.