BUSTED FLUSH

Son of millionaire guilty of trying to flog stolen toilet Businessman dad is linked to cartel through Kinahan ally

- BY MICHAEL O'TOOLE and TOM MASTERS

THE son of a millionaire linked to the Kinahan cartel is facing more than a decade in prison - for trying to sell a stolen gold toilet worth a cool €5.7 million.

Fred Doe, a son of businessman Maurice Sines - whom the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) alleged was connected to Kinahan ally Liam Byrne's gang - is one of three men convicted yesterday over the plot to steal and sell the golden toilet from Blenheim Palace in southern England.

Doe denied the offence of converting or transferring criminal property - but was found guilty after a trial at Oxford Crown Court.

He was not convicted of stealing the toilet itself.

The CAB previously told the High Court that Sines, 63, was connected to the organised crime mob led by Byrne and Thomas “Bomber” Kavanagh, which is part of the wider gang controlled by Daniel Kinahan, 47.

Sines was even pictured at the high-profile February 2016 funeral of mob boss David Byrne, Liam's brother, who was shot dead by the Hutch gang when it tried to kill Daniel Kinahan at the Regency Airport Hotel.

Doe has never been in trouble with the law before but now runs the risk of a significant prison sentence over the toilet caper. The maximum penalty he can receive is 14 years in prison.

He was convicted of trying to sell the stolen toilet, after career robber Jimmy Sheen, 40, and Michael Jones, 38, ripped the glittering lavatory pan from the wall at the stately home with sledgehammers and a crowbar, leaving water gushing over the floor.