The Hutch family has suffered another tragedy – just a day after The Monk’s murder trial ended, it emerged last night.
The Irish Mirror has established that Mr Hutch’s sister-in-law Jenny Burke –whose former husband Eddie was murdered by the Kinahan mob – died at her home in Dublin yesterday morning. That was fewer than 24 hours after Gerry “The Monk” Hutch’s mammoth murder trial came to an end at the Special Criminal Court on Thursday.
Proceedings in the non-jury court lasted 13 weeks. He was charged with murdering Kinahan associate David Byrne, 33, – a charge he denied.
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Ms Burke, who was in her 60s, died at her home in inner city Dublin early yesterday. Sources said Ms Burke had several underlying health conditions and there is no suggestion of foul play.
One local said: “She was a lovely woman, but had difficulties for a good few years. She had been living on her own for a while.”
Her death comes almost seven years after her ex husband Eddie – The Monk’s brother – was murdered. The 58-year-old was gunned down at his home, also in central Dublin, on February 8, 2016.
The innocent taxi driver was shot dead by the Daniel Kinahan-led international drugs cartel. It was carried out in retaliation for the murder of associate Byrne at the Regency Airport Hotel three days earlier.
Ms Burke was the mother of five children, including Christopher “Bouncer” Hutch, who was 25 when he died suddenly in 2003. In May last year, The Monk’s sister Tina Hutch Moore, who was in her 50s, collapsed at her Dublin home and died a few hours later.
Her passing came less than two years after The Monk’s brother Johnny, 66, died after falling at his home in the city in July 2019. In September 2015, The Monk’s nephew Gary Hutch, 34, was gunned down as he ran for his life in the Miraflores apartment complex in Spain.
He was killed by the Kinahan drugs cartel – a gang that would murder three more members of the Hutch family. In May 2016, the Kinahans killed Gareth Hutch –Johnny’s son – as he walked to his car in the Avondale House complex in central Dublin.
And in January 2018, another family member, Derek Coakley Hutch, 28, was shot dead beside Wheatfield Prison in West Dublin, also by the Kinahan gang. Gerry “The Monk” Hutch will learn his fate on April 17, when the Special Criminal Court gives its judgement in his murder trial.
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