Irish gangland boss Gerry The Monk Hutch - the suspected getaway driver after the Regency Hotel gun attack - is making regular trips to meet family in Northern Ireland.
Security sources say 57-year-old Hutch has undergone plastic surgery while on the run in a bid to disguise himself and evade assassination by the cartel.
It can also be revealed that the Hutch gang, whose Regency attack targeting the Kinahans took place on February 5, 2016, were planning a spectacular bomb attack against the organised crime outfit in the aftermath of the hotel assault. If the Hutches had returned the AK-47s used in the Regency to the dissidents in the North, they were to be swapped for detonators and explosives, a source said. There was a plan for the Hutch gang to target another major Kinahan boxing event a few weeks later in the capital. But they never returned the AK-47s. The weapons were dumped and later recovered by gardaí. But they had planned a bomb spectacular.
A relative of a State witness who gave key testimony against garda killer Aaron Brady has been arrested over a plot to intimidate members of his own family, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
Detectives investigating a campaign of witness intimidation during the trial of Aaron Brady for the murder of Garda Adrian Donohoe made the latest significant arrest in the capital over a week ago.
The suspect is a convicted criminal and is related to a witness whose testimony was key in securing Brady s conviction of the garda s murder.
The man, who has served prison sentences for violent attacks on innocent people, was enlisted by other criminals to try and dissuade the witness from giving evidence against the garda killer, it is understood. Detectives believe the man was paid to try to convince his relative not to give evidence.
Allegations of property theft by staff at Midlands Prison investigated Whistleblower accuses some personnel of stealing prison property and selling or keeping it
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Whistleblower Noel McGree accused some prison staff of targeting him with intimidation and threats at the Midlands Prison. File photograph: Bryan O’Brien
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Allegations of theft by staff at the State’s largest prison are being examined by gardaí from the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation (NBCI).