U2 frontman Bono’s daughter was the centre of a GBP4 million kidnap plot when she was just four years old.

Five Irish criminals targeted Jordan Hewson, now 18, and staked out Bono’s Dublin mansion for six months in the 1994 plot. The plan was later dropped after a veto by top gangster Martin “The General” Cahill, according to claims made by his daughter Frances in her new book.

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