The man on the right has been identified by Gardai as a man from Derry who is known to them
A MAN from Derry is being hunted by Garda detectives in connection with the gangland slaying of Dublin drug dealer David Byrne at a boxing weigh-in last week.
Officers from An Garda Siochana’s Crime and Security Branch have been in contact with PSNI Organised Crime Branch detectives in the North West about him.
Police have checked an address in Derry but he has not been seen in the city for a while.
The suspect is believed to have moved to Dublin and joined up with Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch’s crime mob through a family connection.
His gang carried out the shooting last Friday at the Regency Hotel in Dublin where of a ‘Clash of the Clans’ boxing weigh-in was taking place when three men dressed as Garda SWAT team members armed with AKM assault rifles stormed the hotel.
The Derry man was identified from a photo of him fleeing the hotel wearing a peaked cap, tracksuit bottoms, trainers and carrying a pistol in his right hand.
He was running away along with a man dressed as a woman who Gardai believe had been sitting in the hotel bar trying to identify suspects.
Gardai have been checking addresses across Dublin for the suspect along with his cohorts but he has so far stayed one step ahead of detectives.
Murdered drug dealer David Byrne
The main target for the murder was Daniel Kinahan, son of Christy Kinahan, one of Dublin’s leading crime figures.
The Kinahans are at war with the Hutch mob.
Last year Gary Hutch was shot dead in Spain by Kinahan’s mob as the feud escalated.
To avenge the murder of drug dealer David Bryne, the Kinahan shot dead taxi driver Eddie Hutch snr in Dublin.
He is a brother of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.
Eddie Hutch snr was not involved in organised crime and he seen as a “soft target” for the Kinahan gang.
David Byrne’s remains were brought to his home in Crumlin, Dublin, yesterday ahead of his funeral.
Gardai are on high alert across Dublin ahead of the funeral for fears the Hutch gang may mingle among the mourners and carry out a bloody attack.
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