Nicola Tallant, Investigations Editor with the Sunday World and host of the Crime World podcast, spoke to Matt about the release from Limerick Prison of former Sinn Fein councillor Jonathan Dowdall who turned state witness in the Regency murder case.
Having served his sentence for torture and false imprisonment of a man and for his part in the shooting of David Byrne, it is expected that Jonathan Dowdall will be relocated abroad and enter the witness protection programme.
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