Senior Kinahan gang figures Liam Byrne and Thomas Kavanagh jailed in the UK

The sentences were handed down after a two-day sentencing at the Old Bailey in the UK

Thomas Kavanagh, 57, Liam Byrne, 44, and Shaun Kent, 38, who were all sentenced to prison at the Old Bailey in London. Picture: National Crime Agency/PA

Kinahan gang crime boss Liam Byrne has been sentenced to five years in prison for weapons charges, with his co-accused Thomas Kavanagh sentenced to six years for similar offences.

Kavanagh, 57, Byrne's brother-in-law, orchestrated a plot to amass an arms cache to dupe authorities in a bid to secure himself a lighter prison sentence.