Kinahan gang boss Liam Byrne gets slap in the wrist for car smash

English cops have given the son of Kinahan gang boss Liam Byrne a slap on the wrist – after he crashed a high-powered sports car on a busy motorway.

Lee Byrne, 22, was hit with an official warning after the €80,000 BMW M3 he was driving crashed on the M62 motorway in the north of England.

Mr Byrne – who has no links to organised crime – was uninjured in the incident, but Merseyside Police did give him a warning over the crash.

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He was handed a so-called Traffic Offence Report, or TOR, which an officer has the power to administer independently on the spot.

UK cops say TORs are handed out when an officer believes there is sufficient evidence for a prosecution and is an alternative to bringing someone to court.

Merseyside Police confirmed to The Star last night that Mr Byrne, who lives in Formby near Liverpool, was given a TOR for an incident of careless driving following a crash on the westbound carriage of the M62 between St Helen’s and Warrington early on January 31.

A spokeswoman said: “We dealt with a one vehicle RTC involving a BMW M3 between J7 8 and 7 of the westbound carriageway of the M62 in the early hours of January 31.

“The driver of the car, a 22 year-old man from the Formby area, was dealt with by way of a TOR (traffic offence report) for the offence of careless driving.”

It is the second time in a year that Mr Byrne, whose father Liam, 41, has been named in court as leading the Byrne organised Crime Group that is an offshoot of mobster Daniel Kinahan’s drugs cartel – has had a brush with the law.

In March last year it was revealed that he paid some €500 to the Garda Benevolent Fund after he appeared in court in Dublin.

Mr Byrne, who only recently came back on social media after he deleted his Instagram account in April, was arrested and charged with obstruction following an incident in south central Dublin early on Saturday, March 13.

He was held in custody at Kevin Street Garda Station, where he was charged with obstruction.

Then later the same morning, he was brought to Dublin’s Criminal Courts of Justice on the charge.

However, the judge struck out the case when Mr Byrne paid €500 to the Garda Benevolent Fund.

That means there was no conviction recorded against Mr Byrne – and sources also stressed he has never come to the attention of gardai before and has no criminal convictions.

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