Mr Hutch (25) of Champions Avenue, Dublin 1, is pleading not guilty to the murder of David Byrne (34) at the Regency Hotel in Dublin on February 5th, 2016. The court heard that approximately 500 gardaí looked at the photos. The court heard that in some garda stations no records were kept of which gardaí had looked at the photos. Mr O’Higgins said that the information on gardaí who viewed the picture and who knew Patrick Hutch but did not recognise him was “very important”. The sergeant agreed with Mr O’Higgins that his statement contained no information about how the identification was made.

Source: The Irish Times January 18, 2018 14:20 UTC