The trial of Gerry “The Monk” Hutch had everything and more. There was an audacious and brutal murder at a boxing weigh-in in the Regency Hotel. There were crime families at war which triggered a vicious feud that killed 18 people, including innocents. Among the trial cast was a snake-like former Sinn Féin councillor-cum-waterboarder turned state witness.  And then there was Hutch, a notorious criminal mastermind from inner-city Dublin who, against the odds, was acquitted after a 52-day trial in the Special Criminal Court on April 17, 2023, in a case brilliantly led by his senior counsel Brendan Grehan.  Documenting…

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