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16/10/2009
Ex Boxer Sentenced On Drug Charges
A Meath man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison, with two suspended, for conspiring to import €7 million of heroin and cocaine from Belgium.
John Kinsella, 38, a former Irish super heavyweight boxing champion, of Carne Wood, Johnstown, Navan pleaded guilty the day before his trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to conspiring with others to import the drugs between September 22nd and 26th, 2006.
The trial had been expected to last over six weeks with up to 130 witnesses, including members of the Dutch and Belgium police.
Dutch authorities found 57 kilograms (kg) of heroin and 21 kg of cocaine, worth an estimated €7 million, in the luggage of a passenger trying to board the private jet Kinsella -
an aviation broker - had hired for a round trip from Weston Airport, Kildare to Wevelgem, Belgium on September 26th, 2006.
Judge Tony Hunt said he regarded the maximum penalty of 14 years for such an offence but accepted that Kinsella appeared not to have been leading this drugs enterprise and that there was at least one person above him, referred to as "the auld fella" in wire-tapped phone conversations between Kinsella and others.
(BMcC/KMcA)
John Kinsella, 38, a former Irish super heavyweight boxing champion, of Carne Wood, Johnstown, Navan pleaded guilty the day before his trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to conspiring with others to import the drugs between September 22nd and 26th, 2006.
The trial had been expected to last over six weeks with up to 130 witnesses, including members of the Dutch and Belgium police.
Dutch authorities found 57 kilograms (kg) of heroin and 21 kg of cocaine, worth an estimated €7 million, in the luggage of a passenger trying to board the private jet Kinsella -
an aviation broker - had hired for a round trip from Weston Airport, Kildare to Wevelgem, Belgium on September 26th, 2006.
Judge Tony Hunt said he regarded the maximum penalty of 14 years for such an offence but accepted that Kinsella appeared not to have been leading this drugs enterprise and that there was at least one person above him, referred to as "the auld fella" in wire-tapped phone conversations between Kinsella and others.
(BMcC/KMcA)
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