A decoy ruse with McGovern con-voy

'Military tactic' court hoax for murder rap cartel thug

- BY MICHAEL O'TOOLE Crime and Defence Editor

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

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.