Jonathan Dowdall, a former Sinn Féin councillor, was today handed a four-year prison sentence for facilitating the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel.
His father, Patrick Dowdall, was jailed for two years for the same offence.
By booking a room at the Regency Hotel, which was later used as a base by those responsible for killing David Byrne, Jonathan and Patrick Dowdall facilitated the murder and were jailed today for four years and two years respectively. Those sentences won’t take effect for another two weeks. Both of them have already served time for falsely imprisoning and torturing a man at Jonathan’s home on the Navan Rd in Dublin in 2015.
In the absence of mitigation, the former SF councillor was facing eight years in prison. But in light of his guilty plea and the fact that he is willing to give evidence on behalf of the prosecution in Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch’s upcoming murder trial, the judges cut that in half and handed down a four-year sentence.
