UPDATE: Gerard Hutch's barrister says the case against him 'stands or falls' on the evidence of Jonathan Dowdall
The case against a man accused of murder at a boxing weigh-in nearly seven years ago stands or falls on the evidence of a former Sinn Féin councillor, a court has been told.
Mr Grehan said the two men travelled to Northern Ireland to seek republican mediation in the Hutch-Kinahan feud a month after the Regency Hotel shooting.Seventeen of those were carried out on behalf of the Kinahans.In his closing argument at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin, Mr Grehan described Dowdall as an accomplice and “patently a witness of bad character.”The first, he said, was that Dowdall handed Mr Hutch the key of the hotel room used by Mr Byrne's killers.
But a Garda expert on mobile phone tracking cast serious doubt on Dowdall’s evidence about the timing of the alleged admission. He said there was no corroboration of this claim or Dowdall’s account that Mr Hutch admitted to being a murderer at the alleged meeting in a north Dublin park. Mr Grehan described Dowdall as “a proven and admitted liar and perjurer" and was "shame-faced" about the alleged fabrications.He added he seemed to adopt the approach of a cartoon character: “I didn’t do it. Nobody saw me do it. And you can’t prove anything anyway.”Earlier, prosecution barrister Fiona Murphy SC said in her closing argument it was the state’s case that Mr Hutch was one of three men who were disguised as elite Garda members who entered the hotel.
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