'Military tactic' court hoax for murder rap cartel thug

THE Defence Forces and gardai concocted a decoy plan to get Kinahan mobster Sean McGovern safely to court, it has emerged.

- BY MICHAEL O'TOOLE Crime and Defence Editor

The Star has confirmed that military officers at Casement Aerodrome in Baldonnel, south County Dublin worked with senior gardai to send two convoys out at the same time - but the cavalcade the media filmed was a dummy one.

Sources tell us the real convoy carrying McGovern, 39, to the Special Criminal Court left at the same time but from another gate.

"It was a textbook military tactic," a source tells us.

More than a dozen media and members of the public were outside the main gate of the Air Corps HQ when the fake convoy left at approximately 6:57pm to make the journey to the CCJ in central Dublin, where the Special Criminal Court is located.

But McGovern was not in any of the cars.