Hutch/Kinahan feud wasn't started by 'The Monk' or Kinahans, Dowdall tells court

Jonathan Dowdall also told the court that Gerard Hutch lied to him during a conversation that was secretly recorded

Amid heightened security arrangements at the Criminal Courts of Justice on Tuesday, Jonathan Dowdall gave evidence for a second day in the trial of Gerry Hutch. Picture: Collins Courts

Ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall, a former co-accused of Gerard 'The Monk' Hutch who has turned State's witness, has told the Special Criminal Court that it was neither the Kinahans nor the accused man who "started the shooting" in the Hutch/Kinahan feud.

Dowdall, the key witness in the Regency Hotel murder trial who has pleaded guilty to facilitating Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne's murder, told the trial on Tuesday that he agreed to help by approaching republicans in Northern Ireland to mediate in the dispute.