Kinahan Gang Jailed More Than 60 Years For Drug Shipments To Britain

Three Irishmen who formed the Kinahan Gang and ‘considered themselves to be untouchable’ have been jailed for more than 60 years after admitting to a charge of conspiring to import £30m of class A and B drugs into Britain.

The Kinahan Gang trio consists of; Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh, who the National Crime Agency (NCA) described as the ‘main man’, and Dublin-born brothers-in-law Gary Vickery, and Daniel Canning.

Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh, who the National Crime Agency (NCA) described as the ‘main man’ in Britain for Ireland’s Kinahan organised crime group was sentenced to 21 years in prison at Ipswich Crown Court on March 28.

The Dublin-born brothers-in-law Gary Vickery and Daniel Canning, were sentenced to 20 years and 19-and-a-half years respectively.

NCA Deputy Director of Investigations Matt Horne said;

“Kavanagh was a high-ranking member of the Kinahan cartel, an organised crime group synonymous with acts of violence,”

“He was their main man in the UK”.

“Through their criminal connections overseas, his organisation was able to organise, import and distribute drugs worth many millions of pounds.

“These men considered themselves to be untouchable, but we were able to systematically dismantle the group and prove that this was not the case.”

Thomas Kavanagh, the ‘main man’, lived with his family in a fortified mansion, complete with reinforced doors and bulletproof glass, in Tamworth, Staffordshire, from where he ran his criminal empire.