He could bring Dowd twelve mob members

Gangsters fear former murder accused could testify at trial

- MICHAEL O’TOOLE

CRIME TRIAL OF THE CENTURY

JONATHAN Dowdall could implicate more than a dozen people in the Regency Hotel killing if he testifies in the murder trial of Gerry “The Monk” Hutch. 

The Irish Mirror can reveal the ex-Sinn Fein councillor, who pleaded guilty with his father Patrick to facilitating the attack which left Kinahan enforcer David Byrne dead, provided gardai with a 50-page statement.

Seventeen people have been killed in the feud which erupted after the attack on the North Dublin hotel in February 2016.

The trial against Hutch, who denies Byrne’s murder, begins at the Special Criminal Court today and is now being described as the “gangland trial of the century”.

Dowdall’s guilty plea has sparked blind panic among the Hutch gang.

One source said: “They are s****ing themselves about what is in that statement. The expectation now is some of them will flee.”

Last week it emerged two senior members of a criminal gang arrived at Dowdall’s family home in North Dublin on Wednesday within hours of his guilty plea being made public.

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