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Mark O'Brien

UK rapper J Spades releases new song making bizarre claims about Regency Hotel shooting

A UK rapper has released a song about the Regency Hotel shooting slamming the Government, gardai and the media appearing to claim they were involved in a set-up to take out Daniel Kinahan.

J Spades' track, Major Plans, appeared on YouTube yesterday.

The song makes controversial claims about an incident the rapper claims is "worth a movie that could have won an Oscar".

Mobster David Byrne, 33, died from multiple gunshot wounds when rival gangsters launched a daylight attack at a boxing weigh-in at the hotel on February 5, 2016. Another two men were injured in the attack.

The attack is understood to have been carried out by up to six men, with some disguised as gardai and another disguised as a woman.

No one has been convicted to date for the murder.

Patrick Hutch Jnr, 26, walked free from court in February 2019 after his trial collapsed.

It is believed that Kinahan was the intended target of an attack that sparked the bloody Hutch-Kinahan feud that has claimed the lives of 20 people.

Spades' song appears to claim gardai and the Government were involved in setting up the attack.

Lyrics include "Marked for death everything was set-up, 20 minute calls to police, no pick up" and "Guess the Government wanted somebody dead, hoping the bullets hit somebody's head".

The track later slams the media for spreading "propaganda".

No evidence has ever come to light supporting the claims made in the song.

The weigh-in at the north Dublin hotel was hosted by boxing promoter MTK Global.

The company was co-founded by Kinahan in 2016 but he cut all ties with it in February 2017 following a management buy-in.

A number of MTK boxers have supported the song on social media.

Sunny Edwards shared the video on Twitter, saying: "Stand against the injustice. Share everywhere."

Billy Joe Saunders also shared the video, saying: "An attack on boxing is an attack on all of us. 4 years since a man was killed & 2 others seriously injured at a boxing event in front of children.

"The police, government and media have a lot to answer for. What REALLY happened here?"

Boxing promoter Spencer Fearon, who is head of the company's charity, MTK Global Foundation, also tweeted his support for the video.

He said: "4 years ago there was a vicious attack at a boxing weigh-in in Dublin. To date NOT ONE PERSON has been held accountable - why is this @gardainfo @FineGael This is an attack on boxing and therefore an attack on all of us."

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