Gerry “The Monk” Hutch, the alleged leader of an Irish criminal family, has been cleared of the murder of David Byrne, an associate of a rival gang, at a boxing weigh-in event in Dublin in 2016. Prosecutors had claimed that Hutch was attempting to kill his arch rival, Daniel Kinahan, but slipped away and instead gunned down Byrne along with his accomplices. However, the Special Criminal Court in Dublin found Hutch not guilty of the murder due to doubts about the credibility of the prosecutors’ main witness, former Sinn Fein member Jonathan Dowdall. Dowdall had given a statement implicating Hutch just 10 days before he was scheduled to stand trial for the murder. The court expressed concern about Dowdall’s character and patterns of lying, and approached his truthfulness with scepticism and caution. Hutch was released immediately while Paul Murphy and Jason Bonney were convicted of providing a motor vehicle to a criminal organisation.