Niall Donald

He had access, it was said at the time, to the Regency Hotel files.

And this was the big kind of, you know, scandal.

So this man, who was a former policeman himself from his own country, was living in Ireland, was working for GSOC, and he attended this Knees Up event.

he later would say he actually just went in briefly to collect somebody else.

It also emerged that he was a neighbour of Hutch's in Clontarf.

And there was huge sort of scandal around this, what had been going on in the background.

The Gardaí were brought in to investigate if there was anything untoward.

Remember the big story was that this guy might have had access to the Regency file and Pulse, and I was going, well, Hutch had access to the Regency file.

He was handed the book of evidence.

He had it for months behind bars as he awaited the trial.

And Pulse, I don't know if really Pulse is of a huge amount of value too, is it?

Thus my out like a lamb.

So obviously the Gardaí Most of the suspicions surround the fact that

When there was a warrant issued for Gerry Hutch's arrest, Gerry Hutch couldn't have not discovered that because it was posted on social media.

And this was a top secret piece of information.

The Gardaí here were hoping that...

They couldn't move on him with the help of their Spanish counterparts in Lanzarote where they knew where he was.

But in actual fact, he had flown to Spain for a holiday and was due back.

They were waiting for him at the airport, either in Spain or the other side in Lanzarote.

And he never showed up.