Revealed: How three-man hit squad's plot to assassinate rival at Manchester City vs Liverpool match was foiled

A three-man hit squad plotted to assassinate a rival
at a Premier League match, the Irish Sunday Mirror
has revealed.
36-year-old Liam Byrne was in the UK to watch
Manchester City take on Liverpool on September 9
when the assassins planned to strike.
It’s believed they were sent from Dublin by leading
members of the Hutch gang to take out Kinahan
associate Byrne as he was walking back from the
Etihad Stadium after the 5-0 mauling.
However, it’s understood the mob, who were under
surveillance by British authorities at the time, noticed
they were being monitored and aborted the plan.
Another theory is that Dubliner Byrne, whose brother
David was gunned down in the city’s Regency Hotel
last year, left the ground at half-time as his beloved
Liverpool were losing 2-0.
Byrne is a massive Reds fan and just last year
officers probing the Kinahan cartel seized a betting
slip relating to a Liverpool game worth €38,000 when
they raided his home.
A British security source said: “Leading members of
the Hutch gang are believed to have sent a three-man
hit team to carry out the hit.
“They were apparently to take Byrne out after he left
the stadium and was on his way back into the city.
“They weren’t going to go for him in the grounds as
there was too much police presence due to the
increase over terrorism concerns.
"If they were to take him out within the stadium there
would have been a high probability of them getting
caught.
“Officers are not sure if they got wise to the fact they
were being monitored by cops and got spooked or
whether Byrne left the stadium early as his team was
losing and they lost track of him.
“Liverpool were down 2-0 at half-time and it’s believed
he may have left the game early because of it.
“The hit team sent by the Hutch crew were far from
amateurs and given the opportunity would have taken
him out.
“He’s very lucky to have escaped with his life.
“There is no doubt the Hutch gang will keep going
until they take him out.”
Byrne has convictions for fracturing a man’s skull with
a baseball bat in 2000 and threats to kill.
His brother David, 34, from Crumlin, Dublin, died after
being shot when five gunmen targeted a boxing weigh-
in at the packed Regency Hotel on February 5, last
year.
Meanwhile, veteran ex-con Gerry “The Monk” Hutch is
believed to hiding out in Turkey.
He has not been seen on Irish soil since returning for
his murdered brother Eddie Hutch’s funeral last year.
The Monk is thought to be No1 on the Kinahan hit list
and gardai want to speak to him over the Regency
shooting.

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