Ex-boxer gets 12 years for conspiring to import heroin

A Meath aviation broker known as “The Boxer” has been sentenced to twelve years in prison with two suspended for conspiring to import €7m of heroin and cocaine from Belgium.

John Kinsella (aged 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 22 and 26, 2006.