The Hutch gangster the Kinahans couldn’t kill and how his high life was unpicked by Cab

Gately and partner Charlene Lam displayed a relentless appetite for globetrotting and lavish spending while claiming to be in low-paid jobs and in receipt of social welfareJames Gately's legal bid to thwart efforts by the Criminal Assets Bureau to take his home finally ran out of road this week

He ruled the couple’s home on Glin Drive in Coolock, north Dublin, was overwhelmingly the proceeds of crime and should be confiscated by the State. The couple, who have two children, also lost a €4,400 women’s Rolex watch and a Volkswagen Golf GTI car. When Cab went through the couple’s finances during the period they worked on the house, just €608 of expenditure could be directly linked to the work on the property. Some €408 of that was a payment to the ESB Networks, probably to link the rewired property to the power supply system. Another €200 was paid to a kitchen design company.The property, a former council house, was bought by Gately in 2013 for €125,000, funded by a mortgage of €112,500.

However, there was evidence before the court that when the house was searched by gardaí at the start of 2016, the renovation work was long completed at that stage, including reinforced hall door and CCTV throughout. There were “expensive doors and windows and other expensive fixtures, fittings and materials”, all paid for with money that left no trace and from no legitimate source the couple could explain.

The activities of that group included “the importation and distribution of illegal drugs, armed robbery, murder of rivals and theft”. He spent much of his time in hiding in Northern Ireland, but has also visited and lived in his native Dublin, even at the height of the feud. During one such visit to Dublin he was saved by the bulletproof vest he was wearing when he was shot five times while sitting in his car at a service station in Clonshaugh, north Dublin.

It was his and Lam’s globetrotting that proved to the court that their lifestyles were funded with money from criminal sources.

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