Hutch nephew ‘slipped and fell’ from balcony while trying to retrieve jeans

A NEPHEW of former criminal Gerry Hutch yesterday gave a court more details of how he survived a fall from the fourth storey of an apartment block in Bulgaria.

Hutch nephew ‘slipped and fell’ from balcony while trying to retrieve jeans

Edward Hutch, 30, of Portland Place, Dublin, said he was only alive because he landed on the flat roof of a building below the family-owned apartment in August last year.

Earlier this year, he told a judge he had been unable to attend court to give evidence against his brother because of injuries suffered in the fall. He told the court then he had suffered serious spinal and pelvic injuries as a result of the 70-foot fall.

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