Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch insists he’s ‘done’ hiding after spending years fleeing Kinahan cartel threat

Hutch has told family members and friends that he no longer wants to hide

away abroad- and that he intends to once again base himself in Dublin

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Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch has said he’s ‘done’ hiding – after spending years fleeing the threat of the Kinahan cartel.

The Irish Mirror understands that Hutch (60) has told family members and friends that he no longer wants to hide away abroad- and that he intends to once again base himself in Dublin.

“He’s spent years abroad but he doesn’t want to do that anymore. His intention is to go about his business here and he will be flying in and out.

“But he has family here and a life that he no longer wants to give up,” a source said.

It is understood that The Monk spent a number of weeks out of Ireland on holidays in Spain – but that he returned two weeks ago – and intends to jet off again.

However sources say he’s insistent upon basing himself in Ireland for the time being – and no longer feels under threat – despite the now regular garda presence around his home in north Dublin.

It is also in spite of the fact that sources say the Kinahan Hutch feud, which saw 18 men murdered, is not over.

Meanwhile it is also understood that the ongoing garda probe into whether Hutch was the leader of an organised crime gang, is nowhere near being completed.

Sources have confirmed that the major investigation – which saw Hutch arrested from jail last September, is still progressing – but officers are in no hurry to send any file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Sources say the fact that Hutch was acquitted of the Regency Hotel murder of David Byrne earlier this year has also slowed the investigation – with officers now focused on taking their time in gathering

The Irish Mirror has also learned of Hutch’s personal frustration that he was arrested on the foot of a European Arrest Warrant in Spain in 2021 to answer a case that largely was based on a secretly recorded conversation that gardai had in their possession since 2016.

It is understood The Monk was dismayed and stunned that the tape – which was recorded by the National Surveillance Unit (NSU) made up the bulk of the evidence against him – and that he wasn’t arrested over it until five years later.

The secretly obtained tape featured a near ten hour conversation between Hutch and former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall – and was gathered as the pair were bugged driving up North to meet republicans in March 2016
– weeks after the Regency shooting.

Ms Justice Tara Burns of the Special Criminal Court ultimately ruled that the tape – which was partially illegally recorded, did not show beyond all reasonable doubt that Hutch was one of the two gunmen who fired the shots that killed David Byrne in the Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016.

Ms Justice Burns said the court concluded that Hutch and Dowdall were discussing the movement of the three AK-47 rifles used in the Regency Hotel when they refer to them as the “three yokes.”

In one portion of the tape Hutch talks to Dowdall about “throwing” the yokes up as a “present” to Republicans up north, and this mirrors what happened two days later – on March 9, 2016, when IRA man Shane Rowan was caught with them, having earlier met Patsy Hutch at the Malahide Industrial Estate.