Jailed Hutch gangsters no longer on protection regime as threat from Kinahan cartel rivals recedes

Almost a year after Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch was acquitted of Regency murder, easing tensions mean security measures have been relaxed

Hutch crime gang members no longer on protection regime in Irish prison system

Ken Foy

Members and close associates of the Hutch organised crime gang are no longer on a protection reg­ime in prison, the Irish Independent can reveal.

Sources said this is one of many examples of how the gang’s deadly feud with the Kinahan cartel, which has claimed 18 lives, is now in its “most stable and calm” situation since it began in 2015.