Encouraged Kerry Millionaire wants 23 -hour penitentiary protection after wild attack

Former closed millionaire, Nathan McDonnell, pleads for a 23 -hour protection in prison following his 12 -year sentence, as part of a traffic plot of 32.4 million euros worth crystal methane in Australia.

Kerry businessman, who has rubbed his shoulders with higher political figures in the past, is trying to be protected from hardened criminals from Portlaoise prison, looking for the highest level of security.

McDonnell, 44 years old, received a long punishment yesterday, as it appeared before the Non-Jury Special Criminal Court.

The court heard how McDonnell, who drove the famous Ballyseedy Garden Center right outside Tralee, Co. KerryHe became associated with the notorious Mexican Sinaloa Cartel, one of the most feared drug trafficking gangs.

Security sources said Irish Daily Mail that the cartel “has eyes and ears everywhere”, adding: “It is not an exaggeration.”

“If they want someone dead, then I usually get what they want,” the source continued.

McDonnell required surgery after suffering a broken jaw during an attack in prison last week.

During his hospital time, he was granted 24 -hour security by armed officers, for fear that he will be attacked while recovering from the operation. Now he’s back behind bars.

McDonnell’s lawyer, Pádraig O’Connell, explained that they are considering an appeal and said that the sentence is extreme.

He said The Mail: “I would describe this as a scary sentence. It is very significant.

“The issue of appeal is considered. It depends on the Irish penitentiary service now to protect it. ‘

The Irish penitentiary service, such as the protocol, does not comment on individual cases. However, the security of prisoners is something that lasts very seriously.

The protection of the prisoners is at the discretion of the governor, but it is understood that the demand will be granted until McDonnell will get more accustomed to the life of the prison.

Portlaoise prison is investigating the attack on McDonnell, made by Glen Thompson’s hitman.

Thompson is a sentence for Patsy Hutch’s murder attempt, Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch’s brother.

Prison investigators analyze the possibility of McDonnell being attacked because he did not help smuggling drugs on campus, while working in the laundry.

McDonnell’s lawyer, Michael Bowman, informed the court from the beginning of yesterday that his client was “viciously assaulted” and will require additional security functions during his sentence.

At the beginning of the week, his lawyer, Mr. O’Connell, said that the state must develop a “safety plan” to protect its client.

“My sympathies towards Mr. McDonnell, Mr. McDonnell is not a violent man. He is in the care of the state, ”he said.

“The state has obviously left him very bad because he was left open for a very violent attack, as you said, and that attack included a broken jaw, regarding which receives continuous evaluation and management from HSE consultants in a secondary care framework. Clearly, there are many problems arising from this. ‘

Before McDonnell’s arrest, he enjoyed a seemingly perfect life with his wife Jackie and their three children.

He went on a lavish foreign holidays and liked to go to racing meetings with wealthy friends.

His wife has assumed control over the business he has left now, is incarcerated.

However, he continues to be listed in the company’s records, involved in some of the companies.

It is understood that the connection between McDonnell and the Sinaloa Cartel was forged by Morris O’Shea Salazar, an Irish-Mexican member of the cartel, who spent time in Kerry in childhood.

This is the only “plausible way in which someone like Nathan could get involved in something like this,” sources said.

O’Shea Salazar spent part of childhood in Killorglin, Co. Kerry, where he was arrested on several occasions. He also appeared in court under accusations, including the possession of firearms.

The dual citizen came to Ireland following his father’s death in a road accident in South America. The family settled in O’Shea Salazar’s father’s hometown of Killorglin, where they stayed for almost a decade. O’Shea Salazar participated in Killorglin Community College, and the locals thought of him as a “kind of friendly friend”.

However, a source of familiar security with his past crimes said: “He was a little Jekyll and Hyde. You would see him and he had been accused of beating a boy or anything else, but then he was talking kind and polite. Gardaí was aware that he had threats to some of his classmates.

“We thought it was just a bit of a bluff, someone who makes up things about” links to cartel “.

Despite the fact that he lived in Ireland for less than a decade, O’Shea Salazar spent some time in prison here.

He was accused of 14 crimes, including holding a firearm and public offenses.

He was imprisoned for a month, but was released by a suspended sentence after he entered a guilty plea.

Nicknamed “Mexico” while in Ireland, O’Shea Salazar moved back to his native country and was supposed to be involved in the drug activity through family ties. He has direct links with the former drug lord Chapo Guzman, who escaped prison on two occasions.

Guzman, known as “El Chapo”, was finally caught by authorities for the third time in 2016 and remains in a high security unit in Colorado in the US. The judicial documents claim that O’Shea Salazar has links with El Chapo through his first wife María Alejandrina Salazar Hernández.