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Gerard ‘The Monk’ Hutch’s bid to get Regency trial legal costs paid further adjourned

Regency attack getaway drivers Paul Murphy and Jason Bonney,are still due be sentenced as scheduled on Friday.

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Gerard “The Monk” Hutch, who was acquitted of murdering Kinahan gang member David Byrne at the Regency Hotel, has had his application for legal costs further adjourned.

Hutch’s application was due to be heard by the Special Criminal Court on Friday, but has now been put back to June 7, for hearing.

The court heard today “difficulties” had arisen in hearing the case that day as planned and the three-judge court granted an adjournment.

Meanwhile, Regency attack getaway drivers Paul Murphy and Jason Bonney, who were found guilty of facilitating Mr Byrne’s murder, are still due be sentenced as scheduled on Friday.

The father-of-two was killed when five armed raiders, three disguised as ERU gardai with assault rifles, stormed a boxing weigh-in at Dublin’s Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016.

Hutch, with an address at The Paddocks, Clontarf was found not guilty of the murder following a 13-week trial that ended in January.

The court found his co-accused in the trial, Murphy (61) of Cherry Avenue, Swords and Bonney (52) of Drumnigh Wood, Portmarnock, Co Dublin assisted the gang behind the murder by each driving one of the hitmen away afterwards.

They had all denied the charges.