GERRY Hutch will discover his trial verdict on April 17 and if he’s facing a life sentence for the Regency Hotel killing of Kinahan thug David Byrne
The Monk will get the news five days after he turns 60 in custody.
His trial over the 2016 killing at the north Dublin hotel ended after 13 weeks on Thursday
The three Special Criminal Court judges will deliver their verdicts in a lengthy written judgment on April 17.
Hutch has been on trial alongside two other men who are accused of assisting a criminal group to facilitate the murder by providing cars.
Paul Murphy, 59, of Cherry Road, Swords, and Jason Bonney, 52, from Drumnigh Wood, Portmarnock, were both remanded on continuing bail. All three deny the raps.
On Thursday the court heard closing arguments from John Fitzgerald SC, for Bonney, and Bernard Condon SC, for Murphy.
Mr Condon said the case against his client was entirely circumstantial, saying he doesn’t accept that Bonney’s taxi was caught on CCTV.
He said the court heard Murphy knew Eddie Hutch, the Monk’s brother who was shot dead three days after the Regency attack, as they were both involved in the taxi business. He also knew Patsy Hutch, another of his siblings.
But Mr Condon said: “We heard limited enough evidence about the Hutch Organised Crime Group.”
He added: “Were Eddie Hutch or Patsy Hutch members of it? And did Paul Murphy knows this? We have heard nothing about this.
“Jonathan Dowdall said Patsy Hutch was involved in the Regency but besides this we have no evidence that he was ever involved in crime.”
Meanwhile, Mr Fitzgerald said the case against Bonney was “very thin” as he called for an acquittal.
He said two witnesses told how Bonney couldn’t have been in a Dublin car park when the prosecution claimed. He also claimed his dad was driving his SUV at the time
