Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh gets 30 years

A notorious Irish crime gang leader who reported his own weapons stockpile to get his drug smuggling sentence reduced has been jailed for a total of 30 years. Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh, 57, his brother-in law Liam Byrne, 43, and Shaun Kent, 38, tried to dupe the National Crime Agency by obtaining a cache of firearms. Kinahan gang leader Kavanagh had masterminded the plot from his prison cell while on remand awaiting sentence at Ipswich Crown Court. He produced a map…