Suspended Detective alleges Regency Hotel gunman tip-off was ignored by gardaí
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What allegations does solicitor Kevin Winters make about the Regency Hotel tip‑off?
Murky details of secret meetings, intelligence reports and allegations that a tip off on a Regency gunman was ignored have been made by a top solicitor representing a detective guard. Today, I'm talking to Ali Bracken and you're listening to Crime World, a podcast from CrimeWorld.com. Ali, we're going to talk about some issues around the Regency Hotel and all that happened around it. This always melts my head. The whole thing, there is, there's definitely sort of in it all there's secrets and shadows and you never feel that the full story is making sense and this is really around the kind of the investigation and all the rest of it. Now you had a story at the weekend which is in itself slightly confusing, but we've had a conversation before, which unfortunately we can't have for broadcast because a lot of this stuff, you can only really write what you know to be factual and what you have.
And to be legally safe. Exactly. What the lawyers will permit.
So you were speaking to a solicitor from the North, Kevin Winters.
Yes.
Who has obviously got concerns for a client of his who has told him, now pick it up, what has been said to him that he felt he needed to make a statement on this?
Well, his client is a detective guard who's suspended and before the courts and he's charged with criminal offences. So we can't get into that. Yes. That's before the courts. But this detective guard has made a series of really serious allegations in and around the Regency Hotel. the claims are accepted by a solicitor and are now kind of a series of a number of complaints to the Garda Commissioner, to the Garda Ombudsman, Fisru and to the DPP. And
we should say definitely that Kevin Winters would be acting in good faith on this and he believes that there's a need for an investigation into this. His client is denying his... Charges.
He hasn't had to enter a plea yet. But he is going to be fighting the charges. And the charges are unconnected to kind of what we're about to discuss. So I did do some kind of, as much as I could, looked into the claims myself in terms of some of what he says happened and I'd be I'd be I'd be relatively satisfied that that some of it did did in fact happen as described but it is quite complicated okay so we'll
take it slowly so bring
us
back it was of course the February 2016 that murder of David Byrne happens in the Regency Hotel there's chaos there's definitely I mean even bringing ourselves back to it there was this kind of looming sense that something really bad was coming here. This was a Kinahan cartel under attack. They're a huge, big, powerful, very wealthy drugs mob, and they have to kind of come back. This is perhaps the third attempt on the life of Daniel Kinahan. He's operating in a world where you just cannot turn the cheek. You have to show your power. And I think... certainly crime correspondents and Gardaí knew that power was immense and there was going to be retribution.
Yeah, there was always going to be repercussions. I don't think anyone could have imagined how severe they'd be over the next several years. Yeah. But they began almost emergency.
How did the detective Garda claim Eddie Hutch Sr. identified Patrick Hutch after the Regency shooting?
So, look, we all know what happened on February 5th. David Byrne was murdered. And then the story I wrote about is that this Detective Garda had a meeting three days later with... Eddie Hutch senior and it wasn't a formal meeting they kind of knew each other from over the years and it was a meeting in a car basically and this detective says that Eddie Hutch senior passed on information to him and this information was identifying his nephew Patrick as the man in the wig dressed as a woman running with the handgun after the regency
And that photograph, of course, was taken by our own photographer, Ernie Leslie, and the Sunday World himself and Alan Sherry were out covering the event. There had been a lot of talk of a schism within the Kinahan organisation. It was a public event and it was an attempt to see who was there, who was on Kinahan's side, who wasn't. The shooting happened, and from his vantage point, Ernie took a photograph of a guy called Flatcap, who was unmasked, and what he initially thought was a woman fleeing from the scene, but turned out to be a man in drag, both carrying guns, and both later identified as being in the boxing weigh-in.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What allegations does solicitor Kevin Winters make about the Regency Hotel tip‑off?
0:02–4:02
2
How did the detective Garda claim Eddie Hutch Sr. identified Patrick Hutch after the Regency shooting?
4:02–8:44
3
What was the significance of the pixelated photograph taken at the Regency Hotel?
8:44–11:26
4
Why did the detective Garda say he was never called to give evidence in court?
11:26–14:24
5
How did the Patrick Hutch trial rely on the Garda’s identification evidence?
14:24–18:25
6
What role did Detective Superintendent Colm Fox play in the investigation and his later death?
18:25–22:04
7
What evidence suggests an ‘act of omission’ by senior Gardaí after the suicide note was found?
22:04–24:39
8
What formal actions have been taken to request an independent investigation into the whole case?
24:39–28:10
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