Hutch killers will be brought to justice, says Garda chief

A Garda chief superintendent from Dublin's north inner city has said he is "absolutely confident" the killers of Gareth Hutch will be caught.

Chief Supt Pat Leahy said the recent four months had featured four murders in the north inner city, but the gangland nature of the killings was not new. What had changed was the rapid timeframe of the killings, he said.

A nephew of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, Gareth Hutch was shot dead in the north inner city in the latest murder linked to the Kinahan-Hutch feud.

Chief Supt Leahy told an emergency meeting of Dublin City Council’s joint policing committee that the murders had come at the end of a very successful five-year period for the north inner city community, and the garda in tackling drugs.

Vowing to catch the killers, Chief Supt Leahy said: “We are good at this, investigating these types of murders. We will bring these people to justice of that I’ve no doubt. I could not sit here and say that if I did not believe it.”