Kinahan thug brutally slashed in the face and body in Dublin pub (2024)

A Kinahan thug who played a role in a plot to murder Patsy Hutch was brutally slashed in an inner city pub over the weekend.

The Irish Mirror has learned that Stephen Curtis was slashed in the face and body in a horrific attack at Noctor’s pub in Dublin’s Sheriff Street on Saturday night.

Sources say it is suspected that brazen Curtis (35), who was released from prison in September last year, was set upon by a Hutch associate in the well known inner city pub. Gardai are understood to be investigating whether the well known violent Hutch associate, who has convictions for serious offences, carried out the vicious blade attack against Curtis at around 11pm on Saturday night.

Sources say the incident shows that tensions from the Kinahan Hutch feud are clearly still ongoing - and that Curtis was injured in what could have been considered a message to him and his associates. “The attack was vicious. Curtis was slashed and received lacerations to his face and body in the incident,” a source said.

“(The Hutch associate) was seen carrying out the attack. It was clearly a message to the likes of Curtis and anyone else who got into bed with the Kinahans that they are not welcome in the inner city.” In response to a query from the Irish Mirror, a garda spokesperson confirmed an investigation into the incident.

“Gardaí received a report of an incident of assault that occurred at approximately 11pm on the 1st of June 2024 on Sheriff Street, Dublin 1. One man aged in his 30s was conveyed to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital for treatment of injuries sustained during the course of this incident.

In 2020 Curtis was jailed for his role in a Kinahan cartel conspiracy involving 10 men, to attempt to murder Patsy Hutch at his home on Champions Avenue in February and March 2018. The gang, which also included Curtis’s brother Patrick, planned to create a ruse in order to lure Hutch out of his home to the spot where they would try and shoot him dead on February 28 2018.

But plotter Mark Capper would end up pouring cold water on the plot, and suggested the gang delay the hit after the arrival of Storm Emma on that date. He later pulled out of the plot completely, but by that stage gardai from the Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau had caught him on tape, and learned enough to swoop on the hit team- catching them red-handed on March 10.

In 2020 Stephen Curtis of Bellmans Walk, Seville Place, Dublin 1, pleaded guilty to a charge of participating in activities intended to facilitate the murder of Patsy Hutch by a criminal organisation. He received the lengthy sentence after admitting in Dublin’s Special Criminal Court to helping the Kinahan gang try and kill Patsy Hutch, along with Mohammed Smew and upwards of 10 men in March 2018.

Curtis admitted providing, or assisting in providing, one or more mobile phones for use by the criminal organisation and purchasing or assisting in the purchase of one or more mobile phones, sim cards and credit top-ups. The activities also include passing on the phone number of the “looker” or look-out – O’Driscoll – to a member of the criminal organisation and planning or assisting in planning the intended shooting of Mr Hutch.

Curtis was involved in sub-cell meetings and buying phones and SIM cards. He was recorded expressing reservations about Suspect Number 1, the man in charge of the attempted murder, and said he wanted to get out of the gang. Meanwhile his brother Patrick Curtis was jailed for 10 years for his involvement in the plot.

The court heard how Patrick supervised and directed the subcell and was the highest figure within its hierarchy. Presiding Judge Mr Justice Tony Hunt said there was no doubt that Patrick Curtis knew that he was directing the subcell on behalf of the Kinahan organised crime group, which he called “an insidious organisation”, in the preparation for the murder of Mr Hutch.

A doctor would tell Patrick Curtis’s sentence hearing that he was claustrophobic and putting him in jail would be like putting "a man with arachnophobia in a cell with spiders". Dr Conor McGarry, a GP attached to Portlaoise Prison, said that Patrick Curtis was diagnosed with excessive compulsive disorder and had historic issues which have impacted on his ability to cope with prison in Ireland.

He said the defendant got locked in a car at the age of seven, broke his fingernails attempting to get out of the vehicle and had suffered from a fear of being alone since. The sentence hearing was told that Patrick Curtis suffers from irrational behaviour and blesses himself around sixty times a day to compensate for negative thoughts.

Patsy Hutch, a brother of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch, was a major target for the ruthless Kinahan cartel, which carried out 16 of the 18 murders associated with the violent gangland feud. During the course of the feud Patsy was regularly targeted - as was his son Patrick Jr - who was accused of involvement in the Regency Hotel murder of Kinahan cartel associate David Byrne.

Patsy’s son Derek ‘Del Boy’ Hutch was also targeted in attacks behind bars. His brother ‘The Monk’ meanwhile fled Ireland for years - before he was extradited to Ireland to face and ultimately be cleared of a murder charge. Patsy and Gerry’s brother Eddie Hutch was murdered as part of the feud - shot dead on the doorstep of his inner city home just three days after the Regency shooting in February 2016.

Their nephews Gareth, Gary and Derek Coakley Hutch were also murdered as part of the feud. Nephew Jonathan Hutch was also targeted in a botched hit attempt in Majorca in August 2016 that instead saw innocent Dublin city council worker Trevor O’Neill shot dead in front of his family.