Dean Kelly jailed for passport application fraud

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Dean Kelly was jailed for eight months for falsifying information and documents in a passport application at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. The sentence was imposed by Judge Nolan and is consecutive to a sentence he was already serving.

Kelly pleaded guilty to one count of falsifying information and documents for a passport application. The proceedings were reported on 6 October 2022.

The defence said Kelly had followed another person’s instructions, was not connected to the intended passport recipient, and that the passport was never issued or used.