[2] In July 1999 CAB secured an order against Kavanagh for IR £106,000 for unpaid taxes on income the bureau said was derived from criminal activity.
[1] In 2017 he was given a sixteen-month suspended sentence for failing to declare taxable income and supplying false payslips to secure a mortgage.
[2] In September 2019 he was jailed at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court for three years for possessing a 10,000-volt stun gun disguised as a torch along with other weaponry found in his house.
In July 2020 Thomas Kavanagh, along with Gary Vickery and Daniel Canning pleaded guilty to drugs and money-laundering offences at Ipswich Crown Court.
[6] In March 2022 it was revealed that the Criminal Assets Bureau was pursuing a case against Kavanagh, as well as Jim Mansfield Jnr and Daniel Kinahan.
[7] 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.
[8] On September 18 2023 he admitted that he had plotted to fool the National Crime Agency by claiming to have intelligence about an arms cache in the hope he would get a reduced sentence.