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Senior Kinahan gang member gives information to gardaí on Gary Hutch murder

The intelligence helped Spanish police make an arrest in the case.

A SENIOR KINAHAN gang member has given information to gardaí about the murder of Gary Hutch.

The man, who is closely linked to the Kinahan family went to a city centre station last month and handed over information which could help officers.

This intelligence was then passed on to police in Spain who later made an arrest.

There was another arrest in the Gary Hutch investigation in Spain this week. However, the information given was not connected to that investigation.

Gary Hutch was shot dead in the Miraflores area of the Costa Del Sol in September 2015.

Hutch was killed after the Kinahan gang suspected he was an informer.

There have been a number of high profile arrests recently.

The most significant was that Fat Freddie Thompson was held in relation to the murder of David Douglas.

Potential double-cross

Senior garda sources have told TheJournal.ie that the man, who is from Dublin city, gave information which allowed them to make a breakthrough in the case.

However, investigators are now probing the reasoning behind a major player in gangland Dublin giving information on an execution sanctioned by his own bosses.

One avenue of investigation is that the information, while helpful, was to confuse detectives as to the man’s motives.

6/10/2015 Gary Hutch Funerals Scenes Pictured is the funeral of criminal Gary Hutch at Our Lady of Lourdes Church on Sean McDermott Street in Dublin. Photocall Ireland Photocall Ireland

However, they are not discounting the fact that the Hutch murder investigation, which started the gangland war, is something the Kinahan mob want dispensed with, even if it means the conviction, correct or otherwise, of one of their lower-level workers.

Garda sources have said they have informed Spanish police about the potential subterfuge.

The Kinahan gang member has been under surveillance by officers for the past number of months.

19/2/2016 Gangland Funerals The feud has taken 10 lives in 13 months. RollingNews.ie RollingNews.ie

A number of Criminal Assets Bureau investigations are ongoing in relation to this person.

Gary Hutch’s murder in Miraflores on the Costa Del Sol last September sparked the Kinahan/Hutch feud which has so far claimed the lives of 10 men.

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    Nov 5th 2016, 9:45 AM

    Love the fact the journal are quite happy to help people get shot but don’t allow any comments on pat hicky

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    Mute Cosmo Kramer
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    Nov 5th 2016, 10:45 AM

    Why in gods name why the Guards broadcast to the Country that they got info from a Rat in the Kinehan Gang.. Anybody else that may have info regarding anything in that feud would surly think twice about going to the Guards.. I think they even named the person in the article… Are the Guards and The Journal trying to start the cycle of killing yet again with rubbish like this..

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    Mute Karl Carroll
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    Nov 6th 2016, 12:49 AM

    @meerkat: once again, learn the law. Once someone is charged aka before the courts, reporting restrictions kick in.

    In this article did it mention Anyone charged? Nope.

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    Nov 5th 2016, 7:09 AM

    A triple bluff. You couldn’t be up to it.

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    Nov 5th 2016, 8:16 AM

    Am I wrong in thinking that fat Freddie is the informant from the article above? If so, the Gardai and the journal have well and truly hung him out to dry.

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    Mute Suzie Sunshine
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    Nov 5th 2016, 9:17 AM

    I’d say Freddie”s days are numbered now ….

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    Mute Ace
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    Nov 5th 2016, 8:08 AM

    Is that a taxi sign on the coffin in the picture above ?

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    Mute Cosmo Kramer
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    Nov 5th 2016, 10:48 AM

    Yes, Eddie Hutch was a Taxi Driver..

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    Mute Daisy Chainsaw
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    Nov 5th 2016, 11:48 AM

    Dead fookin klassy.

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    Mute sfcaelan_1886
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    Nov 5th 2016, 10:47 AM

    There’s always rats Nidge

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    Nov 5th 2016, 11:45 AM

    This article is really badly written.

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    Mute Upowthat Burke
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    Nov 5th 2016, 11:35 AM

    Is the state reduced to these tactics………this is murder by the state…..why would the gardai encourage this criminal murder

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    Mute MinnieMoocher01
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    Nov 5th 2016, 9:58 PM

    And this thread is still open even though Thompson has now been charged with murder!!
    Let’s hope no one makes any further comment that may put the case at risk.
    Oops wait, The Journal only protects the likes of Hickey & O Brien!!
    Feel free to comment

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    Mute Eoin
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    Nov 5th 2016, 6:57 PM

    The journal making him out to be a rat how much are they being payed for that . He’s a hardened criminal there no way he’d talk to guards.

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    Mute Rodan
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    Nov 5th 2016, 9:10 PM

    @Eoin: I agree, he’s been held many times before, he’s not going to suddenly start singing after a couple of days locked up, unless he has been told to..

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    Mute Rodan
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    Nov 5th 2016, 9:03 PM

    Any info given over may have been sanctioned. It’s possible that H & K have finally come to some sort of peace deal that hinges on the locking up of those responsible for the two most high profile of the killings so far, ie the killings of David Byrne and Gary Hutch. Peace at last? Let’s hope so. I strongly doubt that Freddie has just turned grass after a couple of days inside, he knows the consequences of such action and is surely not that stupid.

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    Nov 5th 2016, 8:59 AM

    It all looks like a Garda bait to try to bring out the gang but It sounds a bulshit story to me

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