'What was lost, now found' — Gardaí find 'destroyed' records of Dowdall/Hutch tracking device

Gerard Hutch’s defence counsel said he 'will need just a little bit of time to consider matters'

A member of the Garda Armed Support Unit on duty at the Special Criminal Court during the trial of Gerry Hutch. File picture: Collins Courts

Records of a tracking device placed on the vehicle of former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall that the Special Criminal Court heard last week had been destroyed have now been located, the court heard this morning.

In the trial of Gerard ‘the Monk’ Hutch, accused of the murder of David Byrne in the Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016, prosecuting counsel Sean Gillane told the non-jury court on Monday morning that a “considerable amount of work” had been undertaken to try to locate this data which had yielded success this weekend.