€5M TO KILL HUTCH

Kinahan clan offers huge sums for assassination of "Monk and closest allies

- EMMA McMENAMY

THE Kinahans have put a €5million bounty on Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, it is believed. 

The gangster’s close associates would also fetch a huge sum for any would-be assassins.

Criminals are rumoured to have put their faces on playing cards, like the FBI’s most wanted Al-Qaeda targets 20 years ago.

The Monk is on trial accused of the Regency Hotel murder of David Byrne in 2016. Heavy security has surrounded the court and a source told the Irish Sunday Mirror “no chances are being taken”.

THE Kinahan crime cartel is reportedly offering a €5million bounty for the assassination of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, Irish Sunday Mirror has learned.

It is also believed that hefty prices have been placed on the heads of known associates of the 58-year-old, currently on trial at the Special Criminal Court.

Rumours are also circulating in Irish jails that a deck of playing cards with the faces of The Monk and those close to him are doing the rounds, similar to those used by American soldiers during the Iraqi invasion in 2003.

Mr Hutch, of The Paddocks, Clontarf, denies murdering father-of-two David Byrne, 33, at the Regency Hotel in Dublin on February 5, 2016, during an attack at a boxing weigh-in event.

Mr Byrne, 33, was shot dead when three masked gunmen with assault rifles, disguised as ERU gardaí, stormed the hotel along with an armed man wearing a flat cap as well as one dressed as a woman in a blonde wig.

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