Liverpool football legend Steven Gerrard has been in the company of the father of Kinahan gang boss Liam Byrne during his time in Dublin, we can reveal.
Gerrard, who over the past few days was photographed hanging out with Kinahan cartel foot soldier Nathan ‘Biggie’ Little, has also spent time with veteran criminal James ‘Jaws’ Byrne.
Sources have revealed how Gerrard has spent time with convicted fraudster Jaws and his family over recent days, after the former Rangers manager jetted into Dublin for a few days and made a visit to UFC star Conor McGregor’s pub - ‘The Black Forge Inn.’
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Jaws is the grandfather of Liam Byrne’s son Lee (21), the boyfriend of Gerrard’s daughter Lily-Ella (18), and was named in High Court proceedings taken by the Criminal Assets Bureau.
Following a raid by CAB in 2017, Jaws later applied to the High Court seeking the return of a Rolex Oyster Perpetual watch worth €35,000.
His wife Sadie Byrne, of Raleigh Square, Crumlin, who is the mother of murdered Kinahan mobster David Byrne, also rejected CAB’s claim an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak watch that belonged to her late son worth an estimated €12,500 and a Lexus Jeep were the proceeds of crime.
Meanwhile, over the weekend, Stephen Gerrard was controversially pictured with Nathan “Biggie” Little, captioning it “All day lad”.
In the High Court, the Criminal Assets Bureau has identified the 24-year-old Dubliner as being a low-level member of the Byrne Organised Crime Group.
Little, who is from the Drimnagh area of the city, is a close friend of Liam Byrne’s son Lee,who is the boyfriend of Gerrard’s daughter Lilly-Ella.
Gerrard has also been seen in the company of Jaw’s son Liam Byrne - who was named in the High Court as the leader of an Organised Crime Gang that bears his name.
Liam Byrne is also considered to be the number-two to mob boss Daniel Kinahan, and is said to run the UK branch of the cartel.
Lilly-Ella, Steven Gerrard and Lee Byrne do not have any involvement in organised crime.
The pictures come after a video appeared on social media last year of the former Aston Villa manager with Lee’s gangster father.
In the video the former Liverpool captain is seen inviting the man to watch a match as Byrne is seen joking with the fan.
Towards the end of the video Byrne offers to set up a dinner between the fan and Gerrard in his home.
“You pick a date you want and I’ll get the lads in Dublin to bring you over, come around my house and Stevie is going to come around and have some dinner with you,” Byrne is heard saying.
Liam, who was named in Dublin’s High Court as the leader of the so-called ‘Byrne Organised Crime Group,’ is considered to be the de-facto leader of the Kinahan cartel in the UK.
He is believed to have taken over from mobster Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh as the “number two” in the hierarchy of the Kinahan cartel, and leader of its operations in the transporting of drugs across the UK and Ireland.
Kavanagh, who is Liam’s brother-in-law, is currently serving a 21 year sentence for conspiring to import millions of pounds worth of drugs.
Liam Byrne has enjoyed relative freedom while Kinahan is now said to be moving between various countries in an effort to escape possible capture.
Meanwhile Liam Byrne - who fled Ireland when the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) took away his E2M criminal empire, seems not to have a care in the world as he rubs shoulders with prominent sporting figures.
His brazen actions mirror almost exactly what mob boss Daniel Kinahan has been doing for years - as he attempted to wash his image through the sport of boxing.
Kinahan, who co-founded boxing firm MTK Global, regularly appeared alongside the likes of two-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world Tyson Fury - and proudly boasted about his abilities in managing boxers and arranging fights.
But the strategy soon wore out for Kinahan - who was sanctioned by the US government and authorities in the UAE earlier this year - effectively ending his career on the world boxing stage.
Last year we revealed pictures which showed Liam Byrne acting like he hasn’t got a care in the world - as he smiled for a photo at the Champions League Final in Paris.
He put on a brave face in spite of the fact that just two months prior his own brother-in-law - Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh was jailed for 21 years for his role in a conspiracy to import E36M worth of drugs in the UK.
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