Kinahan gunman rushed to hospital after being found unresponsive in prison cell

Trevor Byrne of Finglas, Dublin

A Kinahan cartel gunman was under guard in hospital last night – after he was found unconscious in his prison cell.

The Irish Mirror has confirmed that Trevor Byrne was rushed to the Mater Hospital in central Dublin yesterday morning from nearby Mountjoy Prison.

Sources told us that Byrne – who is serving a 17-and-a-half-year sentence for firearms offences and an armed raid on a bookies – was found unresponsive in the cell yesterday morning.

Byrne, 43 – whom gardaí have asked to be charged with the Kinahan gang murder of Eddie Hutch in February 2016 – was assessed by medics in the prison before a decision was made to move him to the Mater.

It’s understood he was moved by ambulance yesterday afternoon – and was escorted by a number of prison officers.

Several officers were guarding him at his bed last night – but sources say his condition has improved.

“There were worries for him in the morning, but he is not in any danger now,” a source said.

Byrne, from Finglas in north Dublin, is one of up to a dozen people named in a file compiled by gardaí probing the murder of Eddie Hutch, 58, by the Kinahan cartel on February 8, 2016.

Eddie, a brother of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, was shot dead three days after the murderous attack on the Regency Airport Hotel in north Dublin that left Kinahan associate David Byrne, 33, dead.

In March, we revealed that as part of the probe into his murder, gardaí in the Dublin North Central Division had sent a file to the DPP asking for mob boss Daniel Kinahan, 46, to be charged with the crime.

He was one of around a dozen people named in the file – and Byrne was another.

The DPP is considering the file, but sources have told us that gardaí are confident the law officer will direct charges against most suspects – including Dubai-based Kinahan. Byrne was twice arrested over the shock murder but was never charged.

Byrne was questioned over the murder while serving his sentence in Mountjoy Prison.

Byrne, who has 44 previous convictions, was convicted in 2021 by the Special Criminal Court of five charges arising from the armed robbery of BoyleSports in Applewood Village in Swords, Co Dublin, on March 19, 2010.

He was caged for 17-and–a-half years.

Byrne, of Cappagh Road, Finglas West, Dublin, had pleaded not guilty to the robbery, possession of a firearm, false imprisonment, threatening to kill, and to unlawfully seizing a vehicle used in the getaway.

He is now appealing that conviction.

Gardaí have long believed he was a major player in the Kinahan cartel in Dublin.

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