Gerry Hutch fails to recoup legal costs for Regency trial

The judge said Hutch was recognised as the figurehead and patriarch of the Hutch criminal organisation, and the Hutch gang was responsible for the attack

Ms Justice Tara Burns said Gerry "The Monk" Hutch (pictured) had engaged in “serious criminal conduct” when he had possession of the guns which had been used in the killing. File picture

Gerard "The Monk" Hutch has failed in a bid to recoup his legal costs from the State after he was acquitted seven weeks ago of the murder of Kinahan Cartel member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.

Delivering the court's judgement on Mr Hutch's costs application this evening, Ms Justice Tara Burns sitting with Judge Sarah Berkeley and Judge Grainne Malone said that an unfairness did not arise in denying the applicant his costs and there was a reasonable possibility that nothing was carried out by the Hutch Organised Crime Group (HOCG) without Mr Hutch's "say so".