Gardai were forced to put terrified witnesses into protection over fears they would be targeted by “violent” Thomas “Bomber” Kavanagh, the Irish Mirror revealed.
Veteran detectives who dealt with the thug revealed how he was an extremely dangerous criminal in Dublin from the late 80s into the early 2000s.
The pressure from gardai in the capital later saw the now 54-year-old mobster flee to the UK where he set up operations for the Kinahan cartel.
