Invasion of the Kinahan Body Snatchers

Cartel planned to 'steal' Eddie Hutch corpse

- JOHN HAND

GARDAI had intelligence that the Kinahan cartel were planning to “steal” the body of Eddie Hutch days after shooting him, sources have revealed.

Daniel Kinahan’s mob were “hellbent” on “humiliating” the Hutch family and “embarrassing” gardai as the murderous fallout of the Regency Hotel attack was just getting underway.

Last week a senior cartel hitman was arrested from Mountjoy Prison, where he is serving a lengthy sentence for serious offences, and was quizzed by detectives over the murder of Eddie, 58, on February 8, 2016.

Investigators had uncovered fresh evidence to make the arrest but in doing so they also found a phone in his cell which is now under examination.

The murder of Gerry “The Monk” Hutch’s brother came just three days after the Regency attack which claimed the life of senior Kinahan member David Byrne.