A former Sinn Féin councillor has told a Dublin murder trial he pleaded guilty to facilitating David Byrne's murder by booking a hotel room but did not know it would be used by killers.
Seventeen of those were carried out on behalf of the Kinahans.Dowdall has admitted at the three judge non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin that his own testimony was the only evidence that he had given Mr Hutch the key to the hotel room used by David Byrne's murderers.
He also admitted there was no evidence to support his statement Mr Hutch told him he was one of two men who shot Mr Byrne dead.Dowdall has told the court that Mr Hutch's brother Patsy, whom he described as being like a second father, "set him up" by asking him to book the hotel room. He also said in evidence on Wednesday evening that he was "not a rat" and would be prepared to give evidence at any future murder trial of Patsy Hutch."It's not to do with getting the murder charges dropped."In the interview, Dowdall said Gerard Hutch "never spoke to me about the Regency".Dowdall also told gardaí he didn't believe Mr Hutch was a bad man but he wasn't a close friend.
He said he may have met Mr Hutch a couple of times since the Regency shooting, when Mr Hutch called to his house. But the court has heard 10 hours of secret recordings of conversations between the two as they travelled to Northern Ireland.
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