Ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall claimed party leader Mary Lou McDonald used Hutch family for money and votes, court hears

Court hearing audio from bugged conversations between Mr Hutch and ex-Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan DowdallHutch heard discussing mediation in feud with the rival Kinahan gang and saying he was not going to show a ‘weak hand’

Hutch and Dowdall's conversation was bugged

Andrew Phelan and Alison O'Riordan

Former Sinn Féin councillor Jonathan Dowdall was secretly recorded claiming the party leader Mary Lou McDonald used the Hutch family for money and votes, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

Dowdall criticised Ms McDonald for not going to the funeral of the brother of murder accused Gerry 'The Monk’ Hutch and "branding everybody as scumbags”.