Essex arrest following murder linked to Dublin gangland feud
Written by News on 12/06/2017
A man has been arrested in Essex in connection with a murder linked to a bloody
gangland feud in Dublin.
Armed police swooped on the car of the 31-year-old man in Romford on Sunday morning.
His arrest is linked to the killing of Gareth Hutch, who is the nephew of notorious Irish criminal Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.
The 35-year-old was shot dead outside his home in May 2016 – just a few hundred yards from O’Connell Street, Dublin’s main thoroughfare.
His murder was the latest killing in the ongoing Kinahan-Hutch gang feud, which has claimed the lives of 12 people since it started with the murder of Gary Hutch in Spain two years ago.
Gary Hutch was also a nephew of Gerry Hutch, who is suspected of masterminding the two biggest armed robberies in the history of the Irish state.
A 39-year-old woman, Regina Keogh, has been charged with that murder.
Five months later, an audacious gun attack at Dublin’s Regency Hotel during the weigh-in for a boxing match took place, in what is believed to have been a retaliation attack.
One man was killed and two others injured after gunmen carrying AK-47 rifles burst into the hotel reception and opened fire.
The man killed in the incident – David Byrne from the Crumlin area of Dublin – was an associate of the Kinahan family.
The following month, a man in County Meath in the north of the city was killed in what was believed to be part of the ongoing turf war.
The 55-year-old – who was a close friend of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch – was shot while sitting in his car.
In August 2016, Trevor O’Neill was shot while on a family holiday in Majorca in what was believed to be a case of mistaken identity.
The Irish 40-year-old was shot in the back while outside a supermarket in the Costa de la Calma resort with his wife and three young children.
(c) Sky News 2017: Essex arrest following murder linked to Dublin gangland feud
