The jail where Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch was held before walking free from court has been flooded with drugs since he left, it’s been claimed.
The 60-year-old is said to have introduced a ‘no drugs’ directive at Wheatfield Prison after witnessing contraband being thrown over the wall into the yard.
But the landing where he was on remand at the Dublin jail is awash with drugs again since he was found not guilty of the Regency murder in April.
A source told the Irish Sunday Mirror: “Things were great when Gerry was in Wheatfield. All the drugs that had been coming over the perimeter walls into the yard, as well as any being smuggled in, that all stopped.
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“He was very much anti-drugs and was overheard telling a number of inmates not to be bringing any in.
“Without the drugs there was an air of peace, nobody was starting fights and prisoners were calm and not walking around like zombies.
“Since he was released things have sadly returned to normal. The jail is swamped with them again.”
Hutch, who is believed to have left Ireland for Spain, was cleared by the Special Criminal Court of the murder of David Byrne at a boxing weigh-in in 2016.
He was extradited from Spain in September 2021. He spent 21 months on the 3G landing where inmates associated with the Hutch gang are based.
Among those housed there was Jonathan Dowdall, who later turned State witness, and his father Patrick.
Dowdall’s appeal hearing against his four-year sentence for facilitating the murder is due for hearing on June 20.
Sources said the 44-year-old’s term could be reduced to time already served.
He could be flown out of Ireland to start a new life abroad under the witness protection programme next week.
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