Alleged Irish gangland boss Gerry Hutch has gone on trial, accused of ordering a murderous attack on a boxing press conference at the Regency Hotel in Dublin in 2016.
David Byrne, 33, was shot dead when six gunmen, dressed as police officers and armed with AK-47 assault rifles, attacked associates of Hutch’s alleged arch-rival Daniel Kinahan at a weigh-in for a WBO European title fight between Kinahan’s fighter, Jamie Kavanagh, and Antonio Joao Bento.
Several fighters on the bill were managed by MGM, a company which had links with Kinahan, who had flown in from Spain for the fight, and is believed to have been the target but managed to escape….