Seamus Walsh emerged from his house at Mountain View Crescent in Dundalk, Co Louth, just after 12.20pm and headed to a grocery shop.
The 43-year-old is facing a possible jail sentence next month after he admitted he applied for and sold his passport for €2,000 in 2011 before Kinahan got his hands on it.
After emerging from the shop yesterday, the Irish Mirror asked Walsh to ask if he wanted to tell his side of the story.
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Before he went back into his home, he told us: “I’ve nothing to say.”
But Walsh – the sole carer for his elderly mother – may not return to his house from Dundalk Circuit Court on April 25 when he will answer for the crime.
At his sentencing hearing last month, Judge Dara Hayes warned a custodial sentence was a real possibility.
The Irish Mirror last month told how Kinahan travelled to Dubai using Walsh’s passport in early September 2015.
It was just weeks before hired hitman James Quinn shot dead Gary Hutch – a nephew of Gerry “The Monk” Hutch – on the Costa Del Sol.
Thug Kinahan had also used the document in mid-November 2015 when he travelled to the UAE following a botched murder bid on him and other senior gang members.
Kinahan, along with “Fat” Freddie Thompson, Liam Roe and others, was at the Red Cow Inn in November 2015 when a gunman attempted to open fire but the weapon jammed.
The false travel document was also used by Kinahan – who has a €5million bounty on his head from US authorities – to travel to other European countries.
Six years after Walsh sold his passport, it was revoked by authorities and flagged with gardai as detectives from the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation launched a probe.
He later pleaded guilty to selling the travel document contrary to the Passports Act 2008.
But his sentencing hearing heard how he was “off his head on drugs” and “in the throes of heroin addiction” at the time.
In evidence, Det Gda Feidhlim McKenna said investigations established the passport was dispatched to Walsh in 2011.
However the supporting documentation used in the application – an electricity bill, a drivers’ licence and a bank statement – were all found to be bogus.
And the picture used did not match that of Walsh’s public services card.
Det Gda McKenna said of the picture on the passport: “This photo belongs to Daniel Joseph Kinahan, a senior figure in organised crime.”
In Garda interviews in 2018, Walsh eventually made full admissions to the officers.
He confirmed the drivers’ licence used for the passport application was his name and date of birth.
However, he told gardai it was not his picture or signature.
He could not explain how an incorrect photo was used.
The court heard Walsh “made the case” that he sold his passport to a “Traveller” in 2011, who had offered €2,000. In his interviews, he said he was a heroin addict and his habit got worse after his father’s death in 2010.
He also claimed: “That Traveller was in and out of the house every day selling drugs. I was in every day.”
Det Gda McKenna told defence Barrister Ronan O’Carroll his client has no links with organised crime.
Mr O’Carroll said Walsh had made full admissions.
Det Gda McKenna added it was common in such cases that vulnerable people with addiction issues were approached for passports. The court heard Walsh was introduced to heroin while in the UK. And Mr O’Carroll claimed the addiction was the “underlying cause” of the offence.
The barrister added his client has been sober since 2016 and leads an “uneventful” life, caring for his 75-year-old mother who has “serious” health complications.
At his sentencing next month, Walsh must present three urinalysis tests to confirm he is off drugs.
A report on his mother’s medical condition must also be handed in.
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