Kinahan cartel lieutenant Ross Browning’s “escape hatch” at his north Co Dublin home was “concealed with a hanging carpet” in a bedroom.
We can also reveal how Browning’s mother Julie Conway — who married retired garda David O’Brien in 2020 — made a “gushing” entry in her Book of Positive Affirmations diary describing her son as “an amazing businessman always willing to help people”. Court papers show how Ms Conway also boasted in her diary about how Ross gave her a “fab piece of land to live on,” and helped with the renovations of Chestnut Lodge in Garristown.
This is despite in her affidavit later, Ms Conway stated that he did not fund the renovation works, and that “it was imaginary” and did not happen. Browning, who has been described by the CAB as being “at the heart of the €1 billion transnational Kinahan Organised Crime Group involved in the trade of drugs, weapons and murders,” had the escape hatch leading from his house at Garristown to the shed behind it.
