Kinahan crime boss ordered to pay back £1m or face more jail time

Kavanagh was sentenced in March 2022 to 21 years in prison after pleading guilty to drugs and money laundering offences.

Thomas Kavanagh (PA)

A UK boss of the Kinahan organised crime group has been ordered to pay back more than £1m or face more jail time, prosecutors have said.

Irish national Thomas Kavanagh, 57, of Mile Oak in Tamworth, Staffordshire, will have three months to pay the sum or face another 12 years in prison, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Friday.