Ireland Crime

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Accused

Offences

Facilitating a criminal organisation, Murder

Where

Co. Dublin

Reporting

1 report, 3 Nov 2022 to 3 Nov 2022

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irishmirror.ie

• Supreme Court dismisses Regency Hotel murder facilitation appeal in Dublin Facilitating a criminal organisation · Co. Dublin

  David Byrne, a 33-year-old Irish man from Crumlin, was shot dead at the Regency Hotel in Whitehall, Dublin 9, on 5 February 2016 when five men, three disguised as armed gardaí carrying AK-47 assault rifles, stormed the building during a boxing weigh-in in an attack intended to kill Daniel Kinahan. Gerard Hutch, 59, of Clontarf, Dublin, was extradited from Spain in September 2021 and charged with murder, while Jonathan Dowdall, 44, a former Sinn Féin councillor, and his father Patrick Dowdall, 65, pleaded guilty to facilitating the murder by booking a hotel room the night before. The Special Criminal Court acquitted Hutch of murder in April 2023, finding the key prosecution witness Dowdall unreliable, while convicting Paul Murphy, 61, and Jason Bonney, 50, of facilitating the attack by providing getaway vehicles. Murphy was sentenced to nine years and Bonney to eight-and-a-half years in May 2023, and the Court of Appeal rejected their conviction appeals in November 2025. The Supreme Court dismissed Bonney's further appeal on 21 July 2026, leaving the convictions and sentences intact.

  Sentenced, 17 Oct 2022Accused · 1 report

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1. 3 Nov2022
   In courtirishmirror.ie, in Supreme Court dismisses Regency Hotel murder facilitation appeal in Dublin

   Man accused of Regency role believed taxi bought from Eddie Hutch was 'cloned'

   accused, Paul Bonney, male, named, irish (judged from name)Paul Bonney♂IE

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