Closing statements heard in Regency murder trial

In its closing statement, the prosecution told the three judges that the murder was carried out on behalf of the Hutch Organised Crime Group which was involved in a feud with the Kinahan Organised Crime Group.

62-year-old Murphy from Cherry Avenue in Swords and 52-year-old Bonney from Drumnigh Wood in Portmarnock have pleaded not guilty to the charges. The former Sinn Féin councillor has testified that his father gave Hutch a keycard to the Regency Hotel used by one of the gunmen and that Hutch confessed to the murder to Dowdall a few days later.

Dowdall changed his story a number of times about the day and the time of the meeting in relation to this"stand out evidence", he said. "Gerard Hutch did not make one admission to the Regency," Mr Grehan said about the garda audio recordings. Referring to Dowdall’s call to Liveline after the Gardaí raided his home in March 2016, he described Dowdall as"very good, a persuasive, convincing confident practiced liar, he is shamefaced about it."

"His first resort is to lie and then try to talk his way out of it.," Mr Grehan said,"He is an evasive witness, impossible to tie down. At various stages he refuses to answer, like a petulant teenager." "There is no single unambiguous admission to the Regency on the audio by Gerard Hutch," Mr Grehan said.

"The audio is little more than a commentary on events that are already in the public domain. The court cannot act how the prosecution are suggesting. There are quite simply no iron clad admissions that someone could say there it is, 'there is the case against Mr Hutch.’" He was called by the prosecution today as a rebuttal witness to evidence given by two defence witnesses who testified it was Mr Bonney’s deceased father Willie who was driving the jeep around the time of the murder.

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