KINAHAN cartel gun runner Liam Byrne could soon be back in Ireland, we can reveal.
UK cops are currently weighing up plans to deport Byrne, 44, because of his “association with serious organised crime figures” and “firearms”.
The final decision will be made by the UK’s Home Office after his sentence expires, which could be as soon as the end of this year.
If ordered, Byrne will have to leave his luxury pad in the UK and return home.
He could also be hit with a ten-year order banning him from entering the UK.
He moved to the UK in 2017 after the Criminal Assets Bureau moved against his car business and seized his home in Raleigh Square under ‘Operation Lamp’.
The leader of the Byrne Organised Crime Group remains in the UK after he was released from prison early under a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO).
He was freed from Belmarsh Prison three months after he received a five-year prison sentence for his role in the arms smuggling enterprise.
One cop told us: “Byrne is currently living under strict restrictions following his release from custody.
“But once his sentence and the SCPO order has ended, consideration will be made to deport him back to his country of origin which is Ireland.
“Byrne could soon be back living with his mother again.
“He is really a nobody and only considered to be important because of his brother-in-law Thomas Kavanagh.”
As part of his release conditions, Byrne is banned from communicating with anyone identified by the UK’s National Crime Agency as being “participants in organised crime”.
Earlier this month we revealed how gangster Byrne had been mockingly branded an MI5 agent after his release from prison.
The thug was taunted as a “rat” on social media platforms following his release from Belmarsh Prison.
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In one post, his face was plastered on to a fake MI5 certificate with the words “proudly presented to Covert Human Intelligence Source Agent for MI5”.
However, there is no evidence at all that Byrne, 44, is working for the UK authorities.
His brother-in-law Thomas ‘Bomber’ Kavanagh was also labelled an informer after it emerged he had given up a cartel weapons cache in the hope he could have his sentence for drug trafficking reduced.
