The Irish judiciary fails in its fight against the mob boss Monk Hutch

Gerry Hutch, The 60-year-old was found not guilty by a special court in Dublin of the 2016 murder of a footman from the Kinahan clan, in what is seen as one of the most high-profile trials against the Irish mob in decades. Hutch lived on the Costa del Sol before he was extradited and He is expected to return to Spain.

Madness dreams as Gerry Hutch walks free from court pic.twitter.com/fRCeiDQAqj

— Paul Healy (@Healyhack) April 17, 2023

Known as Monk because of his modest lifestyle, denies being the main boss of a clan that deals in reselling cannabis and organizing robberies. Although his criminal record dates back to his teenage years, it seemed strange that he, with his status and at the age of 50, was one of the men who entered the Regency Hotel in Dublin on February 6, 2016. to kill Daniel Kinahan at the weigh-in before the boxing match.

The young Kinahan, second in an international clan of drug and arms dealers created by his father Chris, became one of boxing’s most important businessmen from his headquarters in Marbella. The Irish media also identified him as the inspiration for the murder of Gary Hutch, Monk’s nephew, in an internal dispute within the clan.

He Crime at the Regency Hotel It involved six men, one of whom was disguised as a woman, the other in Irish police rapid response force uniforms and armed with AK-47 assault rifles, known by the name of their designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov. Daniel Kinahan, who was targeted by the attackers, managed to escape. They killed a minor member of a rival clan, David Byrne.

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The litigation between the Kinahans and the Hutches provoked unusual violence, with the former as the perpetrators of the majority seventeen deaths caused by the rivalry of the two clans. In the past, Irish mafias have dealt with and killed journalists who investigated them, as is the case with Veronica Guerín1996, but not such a long chain of crimes in Spain and Ireland.

The Attorney General’s case against Gerry Hutch for the 2016 crime appeared to be strengthened by turning one of the accused into a witness for the prosecution, before the first hearing, that they were part of a group that committed the crime. But Jonathan Dowdalla former Dublin councilor from Sinn Féin, a party historically linked to the IRA, was disqualified by judges as incessant liar.

The showdowns between the two clans have stopped. Hutch was in jail awaiting trial. The Kinahans live under an international warrant, with a prize of five million euros from US authorities to anyone who helps stop the Klan’s leadership. They would disperse in the countries of the Persian Gulf, the Middle East and South Asia. His priority is to avoid prison.