Robin Schiller
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And within 24 hours of that message being sent by Daniel Kinahan, Edward Hutch is shot dead in his home in the north near the city.
So it shows how quickly the Kinahan gang were able to organise murders.
Within 24 hours of discussing and hypothesising if they should murder Neddy, Edward Hutch was shot dead outside his home.
Yeah, so James Gately was and still is considered a senior figure in the Hutch Organised Crime Group.
The Kinnan certainly suspected that he was involved in the Reeds Hotel murder in February 2016.
He's never been even arrested over that, he's never been prosecuted, but that's certainly the belief of the Kinnan organisation that he had an involvement in that.
They were certainly actively trying to go after the Hutch gang after what happened and that culminated over the space of 19 months.
Their continuous messages trying to target Mago, trying to get information on him, his whereabouts.
Tracking device are brought in from the UK.
They're put on his car, they're put on his sister's car, his partner's car.
And that culminates in April, on April 3rd, 2017, where you have this Estonian hitman, Imre Arrakis, arriving in Dublin.
The belief is that he was brought in by the Kinnans to target James Gately.
He's arrested in West Dublin safe house and the plot is essentially foiled.
A tracking device is found under Gately's car and we have the investigation beginning and since then there's been multiple people convicted as part of that conspiracy.
So how it was figured out at the time where they came across it was Gardaí received intelligence that Imre Arrakis was travelling to Dublin.
Arrakis would have been, you know, flagged by international law enforcement.
He's this high profile criminal and had a reputation as a hitman for hire.
He arrives at Dublin Airport, he's tracked by a surveillance guardie into Dublin city centre.
He kind of walks around the north inner city where a number of Hutch targets, Hutch family members would have lived who were targets of the Kinnan gang.
He would have been picked up and brought to a safe house, effectively, in Blanchardstown.