‘Mickey Mouse criminal’, who died last weekend, took enormous benefits from his son and son-in-law being key Kinahan players in Ireland and Britain
“If it wasn’t for his son-in-law and his sons, very few people would know his name. And the fact he died wouldn’t be in the newspapers. He wasn’t exactly a criminal mastermind, let’s put it like that.”says he died “peacefully, surrounded by his loving family in the kind care of the staff of Tallaght University Hospital”, and gave details of his funeral Mass on Friday at 12 noon in St Catherine’s Church, Meath Street, followed by burial in Mount Jerome Cemetery. It said: “May Jemmy rest in peace.
When he eventually settled his first case with the Cab, in 2004, he had at least 14 criminal convictions for theft, receiving stolen property, forgery and assaulting gardaí. But before his son, Liam Byrne, became Kinahan “top boy” in Ireland, Byrne snr tried every trick in the book to keep him out of jail.in Crumlin. The victim’s girlfriend, Jennifer Doyle, witnessed the attack. After Liam Byrne knocked out Donnelly with the bat, he told his girlfriend: “Tell him if he wakes up it’s bullets.”
One case against Byrne snr that did run to a conclusion in court was taken by the Cab and the Revenue Commissioners in the early 2000s. When intelligence documents were drawn up for Operation Anvil, to tackle the gangs early in the feud, Byrne snr was named as an associate of key players. He was also named as an associate of Christy Kinahan snr. The presence of Byrne snr’s name in the intelligence was significant. A former fraudster and blagger, he was now in the drug dealing milieu as the cocaine trade was exploding during the so-called Celtic Tiger era.
Byrne snr took enormous benefits from his son and son-in-law being the key Kinahan players in Ireland and Britain. Those benefits included travel all over the world, access to luxury vehicles from cartel-controlled garages laundering drugs money in Ireland and Britain, and also receiving plenty of that cash for himself.
usually vulnerable people who had never applied for a passport before and were unlikely to ever do so. The next victim in the feud was Byrne snr and Sadie’s youngest son, David Byrne. The Hutch gang, seeking revenge for Gary Hutch’s killing, tried to ambush Daniel Kinahan at the Regency Hotel in February 2016. But they botched the attack and David Byrne was shot dead instead.Garda sources said once his son was murdered, Byrne snr wanted revenge and stoked the feud in the following years. He had direct dealings with some of the gunmen paid by the Byrne-Kinahan alliance to shoot the Hutches.
Gardaí were stunned at the Byrnes’ connection to the family of the millionaire and legendary sporting figure. But there is no suggestion whatsoever Gerrard, his daughter or Lee Byrne are involved in crime.
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