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Stefan Nivelles Posschier was found dead after he was stabbed at his home at Rattin in Co Westmeath on Tuesday evening

Sources have told us that investigators fear a reprisal attack is imminent

Hutch, 59, from Clontarf in North Dublin, is charged with the murder of Kinahan cartel associate David Byrne, 34, in Dublin’s Regency Hotel on February 5, 2016 - a charge to which he has pleaded not guilty

Gardai have identified a chief suspect after fortune teller Stefan Posschier died in “violent” circumstances at his home at Rattin, between Kinnegad and Milltownpass, in Co Westmeath

The convicted criminal was hit in the head when he was sitting in a car in Killinarden in Tallaght on Tuesday but was not seriously injured

A man remains in hospital after the shooting

The victim, a man aged in his 40s, was walking down the street when he was approached by a group of four people and assaulted

A total of 196 gardai were attacked on duty so far this year up until October 14