Gerard Davison (c. September 1967 – 5 May 2015) was a Northern Irish militant who was a commander[1] of the Provisional IRA.
[5][6][7] Davison was one of a number of Provisional IRA members to be expelled from the organisation in relation to the murder.
[2][5][8] While police did not identify who killed him,[2] Kevin McGuigan, a former subordinate of Davison's within both the Provisional IRA and Direct Action Against Drugs, was named as the chief suspect after he was also shot dead, reportedly by members of the Provisional IRA, on 12 August 2015.
[9][10] Davidson and McGuigan fell out after Davison had ordered his punishment shooting, following a violent dispute between him and a veteran republican's family, in the early 2000s.
Security sources said it was highly unlikely that any Ulster loyalist group was behind the murders, adding that the killers may instead have come from within the nationalist community, possibly from people who had a longstanding grudge against the victim.”[12] Following his arrest in Fuengirola in August 2021, it was revealed Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch was to be questioned in relation to a weapon used in Davison's murder.