Jailing Kinahan cartel No2 Thomas “Bomber” Kavanagh was one of the biggest blows to organised crime in the past 30 years, a top garda has revealed.
He was jailed for 21 years by a British court in March after a joint operation between gardai and the UK’s National Crime Agency. A meticulous investigation spanning eight countries linked him to 23 shipments of cocaine and cannabis smuggled inside heavy machinery.
In a new TV documentary called The Fall of Bomber Kavanagh, Det Chief Supt Seamus Boland said: “I’ve been involved in investigations [into] organised crime for 33 years and Kavanagh is probably one of the most significant convictions I have seen.” Ironically it was the killing of Kavanagh’s brother-in-law David Byrne at the Regency Hotel that would start a chain of events that would land the gangster behind bars.
