Nicola Tallent

Seen as untouchable for years, his sentence for importing tens of millions of pounds of drugs was a major shot across the bow of the Kinahan cartel.

And just two weeks after Kavanaugh's sentencing, the United States raised the stakes.

You've been listening to an extract from our nine-part series, The Science of Fear, about the rise and fall of Daniel Kinahan's right-hand man, Thomas Bomber Kavanagh.

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