'We're in Shock'

PICTURE JUST EXCLUSIVE €1.10 SEE PAGES 10&11 EuroMillions . Les Reilly & niece Carly, left, sold €175m ticket to Kathleen Sheridan’s Thursday, February 21, 2019 BEST VALUE IN IRELAND €1.10 (55p NI) www.thesun.ie family syndicate €175m winners: ‘We’re in shock’ AS FEUD TRIAL COLLAPSES, WE GO INSIDE THE REGENCY SHOOTER aka Tac 2 Hitman fires final shot into gangster Byrne DAVID BYRNE Kinahan cartel member is riddled with bullets EXCLUSIVE by STEPHEN BREEN, Crime Editor KEVIN and OWEN CONLON McANENA THIS is the chilling moment a hitman for Gerry ‘The BBC sports journalist Monk’ Hutch’s mob finishes off Kinahan gangster David hides during bloodbath Byrne while BBC reporter Kevin McAnena cowers in terror. As Patrick Hutch, 26, walked free yesterday from court after his murder charge was dropped, the Irish Sun today publishes the first ever CCTV images of the Patrick . horror inside the Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016. yesterday THE HIT THAT SPARKED A DEADLY WAR — PAGES 2,3,4,5,6&7 2 ...............Thursday, February 21, 2019 1RM 1RM Thursday, February 21, 2019 ............... 3 REGENCY MURDER HOW GUNMAN FINISHEDFINISHED OFFOFF DAVID BYRNE 3 4 5 KILLERS ON LUNCH LEFT BEHIND GANGSTER BYRNE SHOT HE CRAWLS FOR HIS LIFE 6 THE LOOSE HITMAN MOVES IN FOR KILL Investigation . Regency 2 EXCLUSIVE by STEPHEN BREEN Crime Journalist of the Year THESE are the horrific scenes as a Hutch hit team stormed Dublin’s Regency Hotel in search of mob boss Daniel Kinahan — and instead whacked cartel member David Byrne. Our exclusive CCTV images show the 34-year-old being gunned down in the lobby on 9 8 7 February 5, 2016, after he was chased through the premises by the merciless killers. Just a day after Patrick Hutch walked free following the collapse of his trial for the murder of Byrne, we publish a series of photographs to illustrate the horror 1 that greeted men, women and children who were in the hotel that HOTEL STORMED day for a boxing weigh-in. Two of the assassins, disguised as BBC sports reporter members of the Garda Emergency begged, ‘Don’t shoot’ Response Unit, arrive at front door Our extraordinary CCTV grabs from inside the Regency show a Hutch gang member — named as ‘Tac 2’ during the aborted STALKS CORRIDOR KILLER CALMLY DEPARTS DEAD CARTEL YOB DAVID THUG JUMPS ON COUNTER Special Criminal Court case — aiming his AK47 assault rifle at Byrne. neurone disease and was unable to was dead. The cameras also caught shots show the slayers roaming here.” His job that day was to During the mob’s murder mission, mob were plotting to kill him. The total of six men were involved in assault as “resourced, carefully He did so after Byrne, stand trial for Byrne’s murder. gunman Tac 2 calmly jumping on through the corridor. Unknown to create a distraction by firing shots the snaps also captured one of the investigation to ID the three the bid to wipe out the Kinahan planned, targeted and murderous”. the most senior cartel As Byrne lies dead, another snap top of the counter before firing a the assassins, their main target, and forcing people to escape via gunmen casually walking past mystery gunmen remains ongoing cartel chief — two who initially Byrne’s parents James and Sadie member to have been shows killer Tac 2, disguised as a final shot into Byrne, who was cartel kingpin Daniel Kinahan, 39, the Regency’s main entrance. Byrne towards an outside door. at Ballymun Garda Station. entered the hotel, three posing as heard that a post-mortem found murdered in the lethal member of the Garda’s Emergency already lying in a pool of blood. had a lucky escape when he was But when cartel members — along Another striking shot shows one During the trial last year, judges armed gardai and the driver. their son had died as a result of Kinahan/Hutch feud, had Response Unit, leaning over the Just seconds before the cartel brought to safety by his own with innocent members of the hitman in another part of the hotel. heard ‘Tac 2’ brutally killed Byrne. The van was then driven to the being shot a number of times with already been blasted by counter while the journalist begs: member was struck down, CCTV security team. public, including children — legged The three gunmen who stormed Barrister Sean Gillane, for the nearby Charlemont Estate, where it a high-velocity firearm. another gunman, ‘Tac 1’. “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot.” images show terrified punters Senior cartel figure Sean it in different directions, the hit the hotel that day have never been DPP, said: “Tac 2 jumped up on the was set ablaze. Prosecutor Gillane told the court One terrifying still — today In an interview shortly after the fleeing the hotel as shots rang out. McGovern, 33, who remains in team was unable to locate Daniel. formally identified, but gardai have counter and pointed his gun at the The ‘blonde’ and the man in the that during a separate Garda published for the first time — atrocity, Mr McAnena also As punters ran for their lives, the Dubai, was blasted in the leg, while In other shocking images shown drawn up a list of suspects. reporter but he didn’t discharge it. flat cap — Murray — were seen operation in Co Meath on March 9, also shows innocent BBC claimed: “He took a decision in cams captured ‘Tac 1’ and ‘Tac 3’ his pal Aaron Bulger, 28, was hit in the Special Criminal Court, Investigators suspect two of them “The man then jumped off the running away, carrying bags. 2016, investigators recovered three sports reporter Kevin that moment whether I would storming through a hotel corridor. the stomach. Both survived. judges saw the team walked are senior Hutch associates, one of counter, pointed the gun at Byrne, The three who were dressed in assault rifles which had been McAnena cowering behind live or die.” In one of the shocking clips, a Shortly before the hit team through the bar area a full SEVEN whom has survived previous who was lying on the ground and tactical uniforms had changed manufactured in China, Romania the reception counter. And in another piece of gunman returns along the corridor searched for cartel members, CCTV MINUTES after entering the Regency. attempts on his life. coldly and calmly discharged more clothes, and all the men left the and Uruguay. Also pictured in the extraordinary footage recorded brandishing a firearm. also captured the man dressed as a One horrifying photo shows a The third is suspected of being a rounds into his head and body. area in different waiting vehicles. Ballistic reports found that these hotel is former dissident by the hotel’s CCTV, Byrne In another sensational image, a woman in a corridor. hotel worker looking on as the kill prominent dissident republican “The man in the blonde wig then Revealing the victim was shot six weapons matched spent cartridges republican Kevin ‘Flat can be seen crawling on his Hutch mobster is seen carrying an Running through the hotel, the crew hunt their victims. from Northern Ireland who has arrived and could be heard saying times and had gunshot wounds to which were recovered at the Cap’ Murray, who has knees after being shot by AK47 and a handgun as the Hutch assassin in drag was heard saying, The snap also shows a plate of recently sought protection from the words to the effect: ‘I can’t f***ing his head, face, abdomen, hands and Regency following the gun attack. Tac 1. Seconds later, he since died from motor Plugged . cartel member David team searches for its prey. Other “I can’t f***ing find him. He’s not food left by a terrified customer. Real IRA over fears the Kinahan find him, he’s not f***ing here.” A thigh, counsel described the hotel @SteBreen SHOCK FACELIFT PICS Katie’s Jor dropping! SEE PAGE 7 Friday, December 28, 2018 BEST VALUE IN IRELAND €1.10 (50p NI) www.thesun.ie TRUTH ABOUT SEX MONSTER Banks . Taoiseach Varad praises TINDER vulture funds By KIERAN DINEEN VULTURE funds have been saluted by the Taoiseach as “often better than the main banks at dealing with loan write- downs”. Leo Varadkar told a meeting of politicial RAPIST reporters that Ireland’s main banks “tend to Caged . vile sex ‘extend and pretend’ rather than coming to thug Nevin trawled settlements with people”. Tinder app to find Full Story — Page Two and groom victims IS ‘PUREEXCL USIVE by STEPHEN BREEN, Crime Editor A WOMAN sexually assaulted by Tinder rapist Patrick Nevin has told how the twisted monster sent her a text the next day asking if she was “OK”. The 35-year-old has broken her silence for the first time since the 2014 ordeal that saw the yob jailed for five-and-a-half years. Speaking to the Irish Sun, the Brazilian described the web predator as “pure evil”. She added: “I will always hate him for what he did to me. He is a real danger to women and always will be.” EVIL’ Interview . chat with our Stephen Full Story — Pages Four and Five Nevin’s victim tells of her nightmare ordeal 4 ...............Friday, December 28, 2018 1RM 1RM Friday, December 28, 2018 ............... 5 24/7 road EX-LoI PLAYER ON work call SICK TINDER PSYCHO’S VICTIM SPEAKS OUT MAJOR transport works should be 24/7 to ensure earlier end dates and less DRINK-DRIVE RAP disruption, it is claimed. 6I was A FORMER League of Ireland By OWEN CONLON Kildare Senator Anthony TWISTED star has blamed a positive drink Lawlor spoke as road- and drugs test on his return to ment, Kasmi said he had behaved works to widen the M7 in PREDATOR Kildare continue 12 so, so “like a complete idiot” and begged his Belgium, saying he was “the months after they began.

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