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Episode 1352: Ex-GSOC officer cleared over Gerry 'The Monk' Hutch links after attending Regency trial party
19 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What sparked the investigation into the GSOC officer's attendance at Hutch's party?
So this sparked a huge investigation because there was a belief that this could only have come from within the Gardaí or there certainly was a huge degree of suspicion. I suppose other people could have known it, other professionals of the state. So obviously this GSOC officer appearing at his hooli as he gets out would have sparked suspicions.
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A former officer from the Garda Ombudsman who attended a welcome home party for Gerry the Monk Hutch after his acquittal on murder charges will not face prosecution after a lengthy investigation. The man who has now left the country maintained he only went to the Clontarf Knees Up to collect his landlady, who was a neighbour of Hutch.
Chapter 2: What were the circumstances surrounding Gerry Hutch's acquittal?
This is Crime World, a podcast from crimeworld.com. Now for me, this is the classic story, you know, which would represent the phrase, in like a lion, out like a lamb. Right.
So if we bring ourselves back to the release of Gerry Hutch from custody, his acquittal for the murder of David Byrne, and obviously there was the, you know, the spectacle on the streets outside the courts, and Hutch ended up hopping into a taxi and going down home. He'd later tell us that he actually went to visit a few people
before he headed back to his house in Clontarf, where there was an ease upheld that night.
Chapter 3: How did the GSOC officer explain his presence at the welcome home party?
And in the days that followed, this big story broke that a GSOC officer who had been investigating some... He was investigating what?
Well, he was an investigator. I don't know if he was. I don't think he was specifically linked to any case involving Gerry Hutch.
But he was investigating. He had access, it was said at the time, to the Regency Hotel files. And this was the big kind of, you know, scandal.
Chapter 4: What were the implications of the officer's access to the Regency Hotel files?
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?
Well, it probably is of some value for sure.
Chapter 5: What led to the decision not to prosecute the GSOC officer?
I mean, I suppose it was one of, during the Regency trial, there were these people massive stories kept emerging like the first one was Jonathan Daddle was going to be state witness that was only confirmed then and then there were loads of other things like the you know the where the guards were brought back in to justify the the
recording it yes in the north so there was this constant stream of stories this is the big one after it and what had happened was that this officer the USOC officer was not from Ireland originally and often GSOC have employed former police officers from other jurisdictions similar jurisdictions and who maybe have completed their service and then they end up working for GSOC
And he wasn't from Ireland, so he'd obviously been living here and had rented a house from a woman, a pensioner who was living in Clontarf. He had rented a room in her home, basically, while working for GSOC. Now, she was just a neighbour of Gerry Hutch. Obviously, Gerry Hutch is living in Clontarf.
You know, he's living in a state where no other criminals, but people know him over the many years that he's lived there. And when he was acquitted, this woman, this pensioner, had gone along to the party. And the GSOC officer had obviously either collected her or brought her and had somehow ended up in the house.
Chapter 6: How did social media impact the investigation into Hutch's arrest?
And that was his explanation. Then, bizarrely, he seems to have come into the office and... rather than being ratted up by some secret deep throat informer, he seemed to have informed people himself that he'd been there. And obviously that's raised alarm bells in GSOC who then referred the case themselves to the Gardaí and he was arrested.
Now in the background of all of these things, now we've obviously heard today that there is no prosecution to be brought to DPP of
Thus my out like a lamb.
Yes. So the guards released a statement very much lacking in detail just saying a man in the 60s is not to be charged after a father gone to the DPP. Because clearly the suspicion was that the Hutch organised crime gangs links to the Gardaí an information that's a long-term investigation for the Gardaí.
Chapter 7: What ongoing investigations are related to the Hutch organized crime group?
We know some of that centres around John Spud Murphy, a former Gardaí officer.
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. And he had kind of gone to ground then. And I think he would have later told us...
during our chat with him, that he was always going to hand himself in, but he didn't particularly want to have to sit in custody in the run-up to the trial. So he was just hanging out in Spain, basically. Yeah. And he was arrested there, actually, by police while he was in a restaurant. Yeah, in Fungarola, wasn't it?
So what happened was... Once this arrest warrant is issued, obviously they wanted to keep it top secret, arrest them and then put out in a blaze of publicity. But instead it started to appear on a Hutch associated Twitter page. An anonymous one. An anonymous one, but clearly a Hutch aligned page.
So this sparked a huge investigation because there was a belief that this could only have come from within the Gardaí or there certainly was a huge degree of suspicion. I suppose other people could have known it, other professionals of the state. So Obviously, this GSOC officer appearing at his hooli as he gets out would have sparked suspicions.
But there was always another sort of narrative about this GSOC officer, who I believe has left the country, you know, resigned from GSOC and left the country a long time ago. There was always another narrative that this guy was no criminal sort of mastermind, that he was more hapless and... Well, clearly that's what the DPP...
The opinion that there's no prosecution being brought, there's no charges being brought. Yeah. He has no case to answer. No. So clearly what his explanation was, was believed there was no criminal offending discovered. No. And that investigation, which has now gone on for what, two years? Two years, yeah. I wonder what sort of resources went into that.
Yeah, possibly more than two years. But, you know, I suppose they have to investigate. There's no doubt about that. But yeah, he was arrested. But there's no... Exactly. There was always the other narrative that he was more hapless, you know, a bit of a...
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