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Thursday, 6 Apr 2023
Updated / Thursday, 6 Apr 2023 22:55
Eddie Hutch was shot dead in his home at Poplar Row on 8 February 2016
By Paul Reynolds
Crime Correspondent
A 42-year-old man arrested in connection with the murder of a taxi
driver in Dublin seven years ago as part of the ongoing Hutch-Kinahan
feud has been released without charge and returned to prison.
A file is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Eddie Hutch was shot dead in his home at Poplar Row in Dublin's north
inner city shortly after the murder of the Kinahan gang member David
Byrne at the Regency Hotel.
Gardaà believe Mr Hutch was shot in retaliation for the Regency murder
in a targeted attack on 8 February 2016.
The 58-year-old, who was the brother of Gerard Hutch, the man known as
the Monk, was the fourth victim of the ongoing Hutch-Kinahan feud.
He was shot dead three days after the murder of Kinahan gang member
David Byrne at the Regency Hotel, the murder which escalated the feud.
The 42-year-old suspect for the murder was taken from prison yesterday
and questioned over the past two days in a Dublin garda station.
A Kinahan gang member and convicted violent, dangerous and recidivist
criminal, he is serving lengthy sentences in Mountjoy Prison for
firearms and other offences.
He is incarcerated with other Kinahan gang members who are segregated
in the prison system from rival Hutch gang members.
Detectives from Mountjoy applied to the courts and secured a Section 42
warrant which enabled them to arrest the prisoner on suspicion of
murder.
He was detained under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act and
returned to Mountjoy Prison this evening when his period of detention
expired.
The murder investigation is continuing.