Kinahan cartel bosses Liam Byrne and Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh are facing decades behind bars after pleading guilty to firearms conspiracy charges in the UK . In a major U-turn at the 11th hour, infamous mobsters Byrne and Kavanagh, who were set to go on trial before a jury at London’s Old Bailey tomorrow, pleaded guilty to their roles in a bizarre plot to deliberately lead the National Crime Agency (NCA) to a seizure of firearms in 2021. ‘Bomber,’ who was once named in Ireland’s High Court by gardai as being “at the top of the tree” of the Kinahan cartel, now admits that he put together an insane plan to have his associates hide a stache of firearms - so that he could pretend to cooperate, help officers find the guns - and then secure himself a lesser prison sentence.
READ MORE: 'The Family' take title of Ireland's biggest mob from 'fragmented' Kinahans amid €16m drugs swoop READ MORE: Dublin's infamous 'The Family' gang laundering €10 million drug profits every month Irish native Kavanagh, once a central figure in the Kinahan gang who lived in a mansion in Tamworth, was at the time of the plot facing trial for conspiring to import €36 million worth of drugs into the UK - a charge he ultimately was convicted of and sentenced to 21 years in prison for. The infamous cartel figure, who is currently locked up in London’s Belmarsh prison, may now face up to a life sentence - after pleading guilty to perverting the course of justice in this case. Meanwhile h.