As Hutch awaits verdict, what do we know of the six-minute attack and a trial six years in the making?

With plenty of evidence in the form of eyewitness statements, audio recordings, CCTV footage, and phone records heard and seen over 52 days, Sean Murray recaps on the trial of the fatal attack as we approach its seventh anniversary
The attack team that killed David Byrne in the Regency Hotel were in and out in six minutes. File picture: Gareth Chaney Collins

The attack team that killed David Byrne in the Regency Hotel were in and out in six minutes. File picture: Gareth Chaney Collins

“I’m not going to go to town on him,” said Brendan Grehan SC, for Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch.

Mr Grehan was speaking about Jonathan Dowdall, the former Sinn Féin councillor, who he would go on to call “a proven and admitted liar and perjurer” in his closing statement before the Special Criminal Court.

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