Hutch, who has now changed his name to Derek Moore, pleaded guilty to four charges at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday including dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm
08:23, 29 Oct 2025Updated 08:26, 29 Oct 2025
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Derek Moore, formerly Derek “del boy” Hutch with an address in Champions Avenue, Dublin pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice (CCJ) on Parkgate Street in Dublin for a court appearance. pic: IrishPhotoDesk.ie
Killer Derek ‘Del Boy’ Hutch is facing up to 10 more years in prison – after he admitted seriously injuring a woman in a road smash in central Dublin.
Hutch – who now calls himself Derek Moore – pleaded guilty to one count of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm when he appeared at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on Tuesday. Forty-two-year-old Hutch – whose brother Gary, 35, was murdered by the Kinahan drugs cartel on the Costa del Sol in Spain in September 2015 at the start of the infamous feud that left 18 men dead – also pleaded guilty to three other charges.
He admitted to driving under the influence of an intoxicant. And he also pleaded guilty to two counts of dangerous driving. All the offences were committed in central Dublin on May 27, 2022.
The dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm and driving under the influence of an intoxicant charges relate to an incident in which a Ukrainian woman suffered serious injuries after he struck her while he was riding a motorcycle in central Dublin.
Hutch, who is a convicted armed robber as well as a killer, crashed into Ukrainian refugee Velentyna Linok, 64, as she crossed Amiens Street beside Connolly Station. Hutch initially thought his victim was a man and he told passers-by: “He just ran out in front of me.”
Gardai investigated the case and Hutch, with an address at Champions Avenue in central Dublin, was charged with a number of offences in October 2022. He initially appeared in Dublin District Court, but his case was later sent forward to the Circuit Criminal Court, which has stronger sentencing powers.
Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch with Derek ‘Del Boy’ Hutch
The case against him was listed for hearing on Tuesday and he pleaded guilty to four charges. He was remanded on bail to appear in front of Judge Martin Nolan for sentencing on December 12.
The most serious charge, of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm, carries a jail term of up to 10 years, as well as a fine. But it will be up to Judge Nolan to decide the sentence. The two offences of dangerous driving were committed on the same day, but in Summerhill, another part of central Dublin.
That offence carries a prison term of six months. And the penalty for driving under the influence of an intoxicant is also up to six months in jail.
The May 2022 accident happened around 10 months after he walked free from Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison, where he was serving a jail term for manslaughter and for a separate armed robbery foiled by armed gardai in which a raider was shot dead by an undercover detective in Lucan in west Dublin in 2009. He also served jail time after he was caught with a gun and silencer in the city centre in the same year.
While he was in prison, the nephew of Gerry “the Monk” Hutch was targeted twice by the Kinahan cartel. He survived one attack just three days after he was let out of prison on temporary release for the funeral of his brother Gary.
He was attacked by a gang of inmates he had been talking to in the A yard of Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison on October 9, 2015. Sources say the attack was planned and involved several men who spent more than 10 minutes walking and talking with Hutch in the yard – before suddenly turning on him.
Hutch was stabbed in the arm in the brutal attack. Hutch was saved from more serious injury by the bravery of unarmed prison officers who dived into the crowd attacking the killer to save him.
He was later treated for his wounds by prison medical staff and did not go to hospital. Then in December of the same year a criminal forced his way into Del Boy’s cell and attacked him with a home-made knife.
Hutch escaped with a defensive slash wound to his arms, while one of his assailants had to be taken to hospital to be treated for lacerations. Two prisoners came to Del Boy’s rescue and saved his life, investigators believe.
He was later moved to Wheatfield Prison in west Dublin, from where he was released on July 31, 2021. He subsequently changed his name to Derek Moore from Hutch.