Gardaí step up patrols after Hutch gang members approach home of former Sinn Féin councillor

Suspect in Regency attack and convicted killer from Hutch organisation spotted at Dowdall home after guilty plea

The Regency Hotel in Dublin where David Byrne was shot dead in 2016. Former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall has pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to facilitating the murder. Picture: RollingNews.ie

Gardaí have boosted patrols and checkpoints around the home of a former Sinn Féin councillor who last week admitted facilitating the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel, Dublin, in February 2016.

Garda cars and marked armed support units rushed to the home of Jonathan Dowdall after two senior figures in the Hutch criminal network called to the house on Navan Road in Cabra, west Dublin, on Thursday.