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After fleeing to the Costa del Sol in March, he has now been arrested in Andalucía
The Guardia Civil have detained an Irish criminal who was on the run in Fuengirola, Málaga, after playing a part in a brutal revenge war which left over 15 people dead in Dublin and Spain.
Gerry Hutch, nicknamed ‘The Monk’, is at the head of an Irish criminal clan which has been in competition with another crime family, the Kavanaghs, for almost 10 years.
The brutal war was kicked off when Gerry Hutch’s nephew, Gary Hutch, was murdered in Mijas, Málaga, in 2015.
Revenge killings were then organised and orchestrated by Gerry Hutch and other members of the criminal group in Ireland.
Irish authorities were able to gather enough evidence to tie him to a savage attack in the Regency Hotel in Dublin, in which a member of the Kavanagh crime clan was killed, and there has been a warrant out for his arrest for several years.
Spanish police officers tracked him down in Lanzarote in March, but he managed to evade capture by catching a flight to the Costa del Sol and has been hiding in the province of Málaga until last Thursday (August 12), when he was arrested in the municipality of Fuengirola, where he was reportedly staying with his wife.
Hutch has an extensive criminal record spanning several decades and is widely believed to be responsible for a three-million-pound armed robbery carried out in 1995, for which he was never convicted.
The mob boss will now be handed over to Irish authorities, who have already ordered his Fuengirola property be searched.
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