Keith Murtagh News Today

A SENIOR member of the Hutch gang serving a sentence for armed robbery has been given another month in prison after he was caught with a mobile phone.

Several of his most prominent fighters were due to take part in the ‘Clash of the Clans’ event at the national stadium the following evening. In the background, however, tensions between the Hutch and Kinahan gangs had been simmering ever since the murder of Gary Hutch in Spain the previous September. The nephew of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch had been shot dead despite an apparent deal between the two groups for his safety. Among the crowd standing at the back of the function room in the Re...