According to thejournal.ie, Jonathan Dowdall, 43, has been charged with the murder of David Byrne. Byrne was killed on February 5, 2016 when five armed men stormed a boxing weigh-in show at the Regency Hotel in Dublin. Byrne was an alleged top lieutenant in the Kinahan Organized Crime Group (KOCG).
Dowdall is a former Dublin north inner city councillor who represented the Sinn Féin party. In 2017 Dowdall was sentenced to 12 years in prison for imprisoning and torturing a man in his home in 2015. Footage recovered from a mobile phone showed Dowdall waterboarding the man while his father, Patrick Dowdall, threatened to pull the man’s fingers off with a pair of pliers.