2021-04-27 16:14:30
Former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall has been charged with the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel five years ago.
Byrne was shot dead after a group, some of whom were dressed as gardai, stormed a boxing weigh-in. One of the gang members was dressed as a woman.
The killing of Byrne escalated the Hutch-Kinahan feud, which has so far claimed 18 lives.
It is believed the real target was Daniel Kinahan, who attended the event.
Dowdall is currently serving ten years in prison for torturing a man who had responded to an online ad for the purchase of Dowdall’s motorcycle.
The man was brutally assaulted by Dowdall and his father while threatened with being maimed or killed in an effort to persuade him to admit to a plan to defraud Dowdall.
The man's head was shaved and he was repeatedly waterboarded. He was told he would be chopped up and taken to the north and buried in the mountains, his head burnt at the stake and that a pliers would be used to remove knuckles from his hands.
RTÉ News
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