Inside the Kinahan cartel – from heroin smuggler to €1bn empire and bloody Irish gangland war that claimed 18 lives
He was one of the first Irish prisoners to get his own computer — and used it to brush up on the skills that would make him one of the world’s deadliest narco-terrorists.
However, relations soured between Gary and the Kinahan cartel when Spanish police - working through Operation Shovel - carried out a series of raids on the gang’s operation on the Costa Del Sol. Christy and his sons Daniel and Christopher Junior would face a total of just seven months in jail as prosecutors found it impossible to pin them down with anything concrete.An escalation in the breakdown of the relationship came at the funeral of Jean Boylan, Christy Kinahan’s first wife and mother of Daniel and Christopher Jr.
The Cartel co-author Owen Conlon tells the podcast: “I mean, if it was anybody else, he would have been hunted out and shot down.” In a Dublin church 10 days later, Gary's mother pleaded at her son's funeral: “We don’t want retaliation.”The killing sparked number of attacks on both Hutch and Kinahan gang members - in October 2015, Gary’s brother Derek ‘Del Boy’, survived an attack inside Mountjoy Prison.
Gunmen disguised as elite cops and one dressed as a woman calmly made their getaway after the infamous mob feud attack. “But it would have been very difficult to foresee that the criminality involved and particularly the threat to life aspect was going to extend to the level that that it eventually did.”And Eddie's funeral was the last time his brother Gerry was seen in public before he went into hiding.
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