| On-the-run Dublin gangster Gerry Hutch would be killed by enemies or arrested on sight if he was ever spotted in Ireland. Five years ago the Hutch gang stormed a boxing weigh-in at the Regency Hotel and tried to murder rival mob boss Daniel Kinahan. |
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The gunmen failed to kill their main target as Kinahan and his top henchmen escaped through a back door. The Monk fled Ireland weeks after.
The event would become a pivotal episode in the Hutch-Kinahan war and sparked a wave of retaliatory murders. A cycle of bloodshed resulted in 14 murders over the next two years.
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 Drug trafficker David Byrne was shot dead. |
| Daniel Kinahan reinvented himself from drug kingpin to boxing promoter and has suggested he will never return to Ireland from his bolthole in Dubai. The 43-year-old issued a lengthy statement in which he claims to be “a legitimate and respected businessman” |
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