STATE Witness Jonathan Dowdall will appear in the Special Criminal Court on Monday, but before he gives evidence a senior Garda officer from the Crime and Security Unit will tell him that his performance in the box won’t necessarily secure him a place on the Witness Protection Programme.
The Special Criminal Court is to hear a 10-hour recording of bugged conversations between murder accused Gerard Hutch and former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall as they allegedly drove to Northern Ireland a month after the Regency Hotel shooting.