Regency getaway driver Jason Bonney rushed to hospital after medical emergency
Bonney is serving an eight-and-a-half year sentence in Wheatfield Prison.
Jason Bonney. Photo: Paddy Cummins/PCPhoto.ie
Jason Bonney
Regency hotel getaway driver Jason Bonney is under armed guard in hospital after suffering a medical emergency in prison.
The Sunday World understands 52-year-old Bonney took ill in Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison on Thursday evening.
He was moved to hospital where it’s understood he is in a serious but stable condition.
A source said: “He received emergency medical care in the prison before being moved to hospital where he is now under armed guard.”
Bonney, who fled Ireland a month after the attack in which an armed gang shot dead Kinahan enforcer David Byrne, is serving an eight-and-a-half year sentence.
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He is housed on 3G, also known as the Hutch landing, which is segregated from the rest of the prison population due to the threat that exists against them.
It’s understood he has struggled to adjust to life behind bars during his seven months in custody.
Jason Bonney
He has continued to insist upon his innocence of the charges that cost him his freedom.
Bonney, of Portmarnock, North Co Dublin, had claimed during his trial that his late father William, who died in 2019, had been driving his BMW X5 jeep on February 5, 2016.
The shock claim was corroborated in court by two defence witnesses Julie McGlynn and Peter Tyrell.
But it was rejected by the Special Criminal Court, which insisted it had been lied to.
The court held Bonney was the sole driver of the flash jeep which collected gunman and dissident republican Kevin “Flat Cap” Murray from St Vincent’s GAA car park in North Dublin following the shooting at the nearby Regency Hotel.
Gunman Murray (47) never faced justice for his role in the attack as rapidly advancing motor neurone disease claimed his life in August of 2017.
Bonney’s co-accused Paul Murphy, 61, of Swords, North Co Dublin, was also convicted of assisting the Hutch gang on the day as a getaway driver.
Jason Bonney
The pair have been in Wheatfield Prison since April 17th of this year.
Earlier that day they walked into court as they were on bail while Gerry “The Monk” Hutch was brought from the same prison under armed guard.
But at around 4pm that evening, Hutch was the only man to walk out the doors of the Criminal Courts of Justice after being acquitted of Byrne’s murder at the Regency.
