13th victim of Kinahan Hutch feud ensnared by gangster’s double-cross
THE latest victim of the Hutch-Kinahan feud believed he was on his way to commit murder when he was double-crossed and shot dead, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. Kane McCormack was the 13th murder victim of the deadly feud. He was the son of Noel ‘Duck Egg’ Kirwan, who was shot dead by the Kinahan cartel last December.
The Mail understands that the 24-year-old, who also went by the name Caine Kirwan, was lured to his death by an infamous criminal and former member of the Westies gang, who has close links to Clondalkin-based members of the Kinahan cartel.
The victim, a father-of-one and convicted criminal, believed he was on his way to commit a ‘paid hit’ in Dunboyne, Co. Meath, with this west Dublin criminal.
A source said: ‘He thought he was meeting this other criminal to go murder someone.
‘But he was always the intended target. It was the ultimate double cross. Like something straight out of a gangster film.’
McCormack’s murdered father Noel was a close friend of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch.
The latest victim in the HutchKinahan feud had ‘sworn revenge against the Kinahans’ for murdering his father. A source explained: ‘Kane has being going around mouthing off to anyone that will listen that he is going to get the Kinahans over his father’s death. They got him first.’
McCormack, of Clonee, Co. Meath, survived an attempt on his life in September after an intervention by the Garda’s Emergency Response Unit.
Gardaí received intelligence his life had been under threat because of repeated promises to kill those who killed his father. The Mail can reveal that McCormack met by arrangement a west Dublin criminal in a Lidl car park in Clonee at 4pm on Friday. He had been asked by this criminal, in his 30s, to carry out a paid murder with him in Dunboyne.
It is understood this major gangster is related by marriage to a senior Kinahan lieutenant, recently convicted in connection with guns offences abroad. The gangster is also closely linked to a Clondalkin-based highly organised criminal who has strong links to the Kinahan cartel.
Gardaí suspect the gang boss who met McCormack on the pretence of committing a proposed murder with him lured him to his death in Dunboyne. Detectives believe others were most likely involved in McCormack’s murder and the dumping of his body. The 24-year-old’s remains were found in a field opposite a supermarket in the leafy village of Dunboyne on the Meath/Kildare border at around noon on Saturday.
McCormack was before the courts just last month on firearms charges after a large quantity of ammunition was found in Dublin last year. At the time of the court case, he was released on bail but his defence lawyer asked that his next court date not be read out in open court as there was ‘a threat on his life’.
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