Four men were remanded in custody today charged over a foiled hold-up on a cash-in-transit van in which gardai shot and killed one of the raiders.
Cousins Derek Hutch of Chapel Farm Ave, Lusk, Co Dublin, and Gareth Hutch of Drumalee Ave, North Circular Road, Dublin 7, appeared at Blanchardstown District Court with Darren Keane and John Boylan of Foxdene Avenue, Clondalkin, west Dublin.
The alleged raiders were accused of attempting to rob a Securicor worker and having a sawn-off shotgun with intent to commit robbery on Foxborough Road in Lucan, west Dublin on May 15th last year.
Keane and Gareth Hutch were remanded in custody with consent to bail while Boylan and Derek Hutch, who were already in custody, did not apply for bail. Boylan (23) and Derek Hutch (25) were arrested and charged today before the hearing began.
Keane (24) and Gareth Hutch (29) made no reply when charged at 11.25pm on Saturday and 1.05am today respectively. Both were remanded in custody with consent to bail on their own bond of €10,000, with half the bond due in cash.
The pair were both ordered to surrender their passports, not apply for a new one, sign-on daily with gardaí and reside at their respective addresses.
It is understood the gang behind the cash-in-transit hold-up had been under intense Garda surveillance for some time before the sting operation. During the foiled heist undercover officers gunned down Gareth Molloy (27), from Dublin’s Sheriff Street, and wounded one of his accomplices.
The armed robbery involved five men and took place outside a shop as the cash delivery van arrived to fill an ATM at a Centra in a quiet suburban housing estate in Lucan around lunchtime.
All four men are due to appear before Blanchardstown District Court again on May 17th.
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