A woman has been jailed for 18 months at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for working with others to make fake passports.
Mojisola Ibidokun (24), a native of Nigeria with addresses at Rosedale Crescent, Clonee, and Harbour View, Naas, was convicted in December by a jury at Naas Circuit Criminal Court, of conspiring with others to make false passports on dates between June 1st, 2003, and January 9th, 2004.
Judge Katherine Delahunt said she was satisfied that Ibidokun was not the mastermind and was fairly low down the ladder but while she made admissions to gardaí, she had not fully co-operated.
Det Garda Niall McKeigue told Orla Crowe, prosecuting, that biodata papers for both Irish and Dutch passports, ink, thread and needles used in making passports, a laminating machine, a typewriter and Irish driving licence were found in different locations in the Naas house after two parcels were intercepted by Customs officers at Dublin airport.
One parcel, with a name "Bukky" and a mobile number on the envelope, addressed to the house, contained a pair of jeans in which biodata papers for passports were found. A second parcel which had another Naas address also carried similar biodata papers.
Ibidokun admitted the mobile number on the envelope was hers.
She said she had asked a Nigerian friend to post over native medicine for her four-year-old son's skin condition and had been told there would be something else in the package for a man to collect.
She told her friend that if it was anything illegal she would throw it in the bin because she didn't want "crime on her soul".
Det Garda McKeigue agreed with Roger Sweetman SC, defending, that Ibidokun had applied for residency in Ireland as her son was born here.
However, her application was refused in January last because of the conviction.