![]() ![]() It was one insight into the mind of a man who has been a senior figure in organised crime in this country for decades. ![]() ![]() He could not understand why anyone would ever say anything to the police, particularly after they had been told they did not have to. ![]() Their conversation was recorded by the gardaí. They were under surveillance and the former Sinn Féin councillor's jeep was bugged. Hutch outlined this strategy for dealing with unwanted police inquiries to Jonathan Dowdall during their road trip to Northern Ireland on 7 March 2016. There was no point in getting frustrated or annoyed with a clever and streetwise individual like Gerard Hutch. "You’re after telling me to say nothing," Hutch said. The caution informs a suspect of their right to silence. "You are not obliged to say anything unless you wish to do so, but whatever you say will be taken down in writing and may be given in evidence," the Garda replied. The man known as 'The Monk’ had a prepared playbook for exactly this kind of situation. He does not account for his movements when stopped and did not, when asked, where he was on the day the Kinahan gangster David Byrne was shot dead at the Regency Hotel. He does not even engage in casual conversation with them. What we learned about the man known as 'The Monk' through bugged garda conversations and the only television interview he ever gave. ![]()
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