This is the moment Patsy Hutch tenderly kisses the grave of his son Gary - whose murder by the Kinahan cartel sparked Ireland’s most deadly gang feud.
These Mirror photos also show Mr Hutch – a brother of Gerry “the Monk” Hutch - carefully cleaning Gary’s gravestone in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery early yesterday.
He can be seen kissing a photograph of Gary embossed on the large black gravestone by the family following his brutal murder by the Kinahan cartel in Estepona, southern Spain more than seven years ago.
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He then spends a few moments cleaning the large headstone placed on the grave after Gary’s funeral.
He spent around 40 minutes in the cemetery in central Dublin and is understood to have visited several family graves there.
They include the final resting place of his slain nephew Gareth – whose anniversary fell yesterday.
Gareth (35) was shot dead by the cartel on May 24, 2016 – at the height of the Kinahan-Hutch feud.
And it’s understood he also visited the grave of his own brother Eddie (58), shot dead by the cartel in the aftermath of the gun attack on the Regency Airport Hotel in February 2016 in which Kinahan associate David Byrne (33) was murdered.
His nephew Derek Coakley Hutch (27) shot dead by the cartel in January 2018 is also buried at Glasnevin – as is his brother Johnny (66) who died in July 2019 after a fall at his Dublin home.
The photographs of Patsy at the cemetery emerged a fortnight after he refused to talk to The Star/Mirror about claims he plotted the Regency attack.
Patsy, 62, was in the Special Criminal Court last month by Ms Justice Tara Burns as possibly being the organiser of the dramatic gangland hit that claimed the life of David Byrne in February 2016.
But when confronted on the streets of Dublin and asked to comment on Ms Justice Burns findings, Patsy appeared to roll his eyes, and kept on walking - without uttering a word.
After finding his brother Gerry not guilty of Byrne’s murder last month, respected Judge Tara Burns told the Special Criminal Court that “a reasonable possibility arises on the evidence that the Regency was planned by Patsy Hutch and that Gerard Hutch stepped in, as head of the family, to attempt to sort out the aftermath.”
Ms Justice Burns also went further in her scathing judgement last month, saying that the court was satisfied that Patsy, who is not charged with any offence, “was centrally involved” in the movement of the three AK47 rifles that were used in the Regency, when they were given to IRA man Shane Rowan on March 9, 2016.
Patsy made the pilgrimage to Gary’s son yesterday just over a month after Gerry (60) was acquitted of the Regency attack by Ms Justice Burns. Gerry is now understood to have flown to Spain.
Gary (34) was gunned down by the cartel in southern Spain in September 2015 – weeks after he returned there after the Kinahan gang assured him his life was not in danger.
Gary, a former close pal of Daniel Kinahan (45) fled Spain in August 2014.
He had earlier organised an ally to carry out a botched murder bid on Kinahan in a doomed effort to take over the drugs gang of which he was a key member.
Daniel Kinahan quickly established that Gary was behind the shooting, in which innocent boxer Jamie Moore was injured in the leg – and his former pal ran for his life.
The Hutch gang then paid €200,000 compensation to the Kinahans to secure a peace deal – but the cartel welched on it and shot Gary dead in September 2015.
The Hutch gang then tried to murder Kinahan in Dublin in November – before the cartel failed in a bid to kill Gerry Hutch in Lanzarote in January 2016.
That then led the Hutch gang to try to murder Kinahan at the Regency Airport Hotel the following month – only for them to kill David Byrne.
The Kinahans then went on an orgy of violence that lasted two years – and saw 18 men killed.
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