The Regency Hotel murder trial has heard David Byrne's death would have been “rapid or even instantaneous”.
The Special Criminal Court has been hearing details about the post-mortem carried out on David Byrne following the shooting in 2016.
The 34-year-old was gunned down at the Regency hotel’s reception, during a boxing weigh-in.
Witnesses described shots being fired by a so-called “tactical team” dressed as armed Gardaí.
It is the prosecution’s case that Patrick Hutch was dressed as a woman at the hotel and participated in and shared the intent to commit the crime.
The 25-year-old from Champion’s Avenue in Dublin’s north inner city denies murdering the father-of-two.
Three AK47s believed to be used in the shooting were shown to the court this morning.
They were found when Gardaí stopped a car just outside Slane in Co. Meath as part of an investigation into the movement of weapons by the IRA.
The results of a post-mortem were also read out. It concluded that Mr. Byrne died from six gunshot wounds fired from a high-velocity weapon and that death would have been “rapid or even instantaneous”.
