Thomas Kavanagh

Thomas "Bomber" Kavanagh is an Irish criminal and a senior member of the Kinahan Organised Crime Group founded by Christy Kinahan.

He was one of the first targets of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) when it was established

Move to UK He moved to the UK after 2000 and settled in Tamworth.

In March 2022 the court sentenced Kavanagh, Vickery and Canning to jail for 21 years, 20 years and 19 years six months respectively. The judge said that all three of the men had played a leading role in the criminal organisation. The case has been pursued for over a year in secret, with Mansfield as the main target, with Kavanagh and Kinahan, among others, as respondents. They appeared in Westminster Magistrates court and were remanded to appear at the Old Bailey on 5 September 2023. He gathered and hid a cache of firearms and told the agency through his solicitor of the location in County Down. His brother-in-law was sentenced to five years to be served concurrently with a twenty-one year sentence. The assets include a 50% share in what the NCA called a "fortified family mansion" in Tamworth. Money from sale of other properties in Spain and the UK, along with £150,000 of expensive items seized when Kavanaghs' house was raided were also found to be part of his assets. Kavanagh was told he had three months to pay the £1.1 million or he would face another 12 years in jail.