The UK’s National Crime Agency declared caging Kinahan lieutenant Thomas “Bomber” Kavanagh was one of its major operational successes of 2022.
The thug’s 30-plus years involved in serious and organised crime came to an end in March when he was jailed for 21 years by a British court. It followed a huge investigation spanning eight countries that linked him to 23 shipments of cocaine and cannabis worth €36million smuggled inside heavy machinery.
Gardai - who worked closely with the NCA in the probe - had established that Kavanagh, 54, was Daniel Kinahan’s No 2 in the cartel and whilst running a drugs empire in the Midlands of England, he was also directing murders as part of the feud against the Hutch family.
