Man arrested in connection with murder of Eddie Hutch Sr released without charge

Eddie Hutch Sr was killed as he pulled up in his taxi outside his home on February 8, 2016.

File picture of members of the Garda  Emergency Response Uni at a Garda checkpoint in Dublin. Picture: Sam Boal /Rollingnews.ie

A man arrested in connection with the murder of the brother of Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch has been released without charge.

A file will now be prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

The man, aged in his 40s, was arrested on suspicion of the shooting dead of Eddie Hutch Sr seven years ago.

The arrested man is understood to be a Kinahan crime member.

He is already serving a prison sentence and was taken from prison to a garda station in North Dublin, where he is currently being detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984.

Eddie Hutch Sr, a father-of-five and taxi driver from Popular Row, Ballybough, Dublin, was approached by several gunmen as he pulled up in his taxi outside his home on February 8, 2016.

A silver BMW 3 Series vehicle, which was believed to be the getaway car, was found abandoned a short distance away on St Patrick’s Parade in Drumcondra.

The shooting occurred just three days after the killing of Kinahan cartel gang member David Byrne, at a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel. 

Gardaí believe 58-year-old Eddie Hutch Sr was shot in retaliation for the brutal Regency Hotel murder, which escalated the Kinahan-Hutch gangland feud, simply because he was a member of the Hutch family.

That feud has since claimed a total of 18 lives.