Two women among three arrested over gangland murders

Two women and a man were arrested yesterday as gardaí close the net on those behind the spate of gangland murders in Dublin’s north inner city.

Two women among three arrested over gangland murders

A Garda statement yesterday said that two people were arrested in connection with the murder of Gareth Hutch last Tuesday.

It is thought their genders, and ages, were not officially released as gardaí fear that members of the Hutch gang would kill them.

They were detained using special anti-gang offences under Section 50 of the Criminal Justice Act 2007.

This allows for suspects to be detained for up to seven days on the authorisation of senior officers and the courts.

It is not clear what role the women are suspected of playing in the murder, as CCTV footage, which captured the shooting, shows that two males were involved.

Garda sources said they might have provided logistical support in the murder.

Detectives suspect that a 30-year-old INLA man was the main shooter in the killing.

Six people have been shot dead by the Kinahan crime cartel, four of them in the north inner city.

Three were members of the wider Hutch family.

Prior to the murder of Gareth Hutch, Eddie Hutch was shot dead at his home in nearby Ballybough, while Gary Hutch was gunned down in Marbella, Spain, last September.

A 29-year-old man, thought to be one of the gunmen in Tuesday’s attack, handed himself in after the murder. Gardaí suspect he did this for his own safety.

The third person arrested yesterday, also under the 2007 provision, was held in connection with the murder of dissident republican Michael Barr last April.

Michael Barr
Michael Barr

The Tyrone man was shot dead as he worked in the Sunset House pub in the North Strand area.

Barr was suspected of providing a safe house to a gunman, also a dissident from Tyrone, who took part in the Regency Hotel attack on February 5.

Kinahan lieutenant David Byrne, from Crumlin in south Dublin, was shot dead in that attack, in which three men, dressed as elite gardaí, brandished AK47s.

The Tyrone gunman and Barr are both suspected of playing a role in supplying that weaponry.

A man was arrested earlier in the week in connection with the murder of Eddie Hutch — brother of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.

Chief Superintendent Pat Leahy said on Thursday that he expected successful investigations in relation to the four murders.

“I am absolutely confident, and I wouldn’t say this lightly, that we will be successful in these investigations and I suggest we will be successful in some of them sooner rather than later,” he said.

He accepted that many of those involved in the murders were local people, but said there was an “international element” to those ordering and paying for the killings.

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