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Your evening update: The Special Criminal Court will deliver a judgment in April in the trial of Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch; and the Tánaiste spoke to ...

The judge said the court would notify parties if the judgment for the three accused is available before 17 April.

The State is expected to conclude its case against Hutch and his two co-accused tomorrow.

A person can be heard saying “they’re not guards” in the video, the court heard.

The defences cross-examination of former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall continued on Friday

Jonathan Dowdall gave evidence at the trial in the Criminal Courts of Justice for a second day.

Hutch’s defence team said there is nothing in the Surveillance Act to suggest it has scope beyond the State’s borders.

The defence is objecting to the admissibility of almost eight hours of a ten hour audio recording of conversations between Hutch and Jonathan Dowdall.

The conversations were captured by a garda bugging device when Dowdall and Hutch allegedly travelled back from the North.