Mobster Daniel Kinahan breaks silence on Regency shooting and claims he just wants to help people

• 15:24, 9 Mar 2022
• Updated: 15:24, 9 Mar 2022

EVIL crime boss Daniel Kinahan told how he is proud of the way he was brought up and just wants to help people in his first tell-all interview.

The notorious mobster, who controls a billion-euro drugs empire, sat down with Scottish podcaster and documentary maker James English for a three-hour interview which will air online next week.

A two-minute trailer from their chat was released today, which appears to take place in a hotel room in a sunny location.

In the clip, Kinahan, who has been holed up in Dubai for a number of years as he tries to evade law enforcement agencies across Europe, said: “I grew up the way I grew up and I’m not going to say I was an angel but I’m proud of where I was brought up and I’m proud of how I was brought up and what I turned things into now, I want to turn everything into a positive and I want to help people.

“If I’m this bad person, the things these newspapers have wrote about me – that I supplied guns to these rebel kids in Africa, that I had a billion dollars worth of cocaine that went through America – come on.

“If this really happened in America I’d be in America now.”

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Viewers will be able to watch the lengthy interview on the streaming service Patreon from 2pm on March 17 if they sign up to English’s podcast for €6 a month.

It will then go live on YouTube on the morning of March 20 and will be on iTunes the following day.

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Kinahan, 44, who wears a beige t-shirt, trousers and sun shoes for the interview, also addresses the gun attack at the Regency Hotel six years ago in which his close pal and trusted lieutenant David Byrne was shot dead.

In the trailer released demonstrating taking a gun out from the back of his trousers, he said: “I’ve never told anyone this story but I seen it being taken out about six metres from me and then I saw the gun at the back and then I heard bu-dum, bu-dum, the shots let go behind me.”

Using hand motions, the thug explained how he just fled once he saw the gun.

English asks him to go into detail about the day of the infamous attack, which took place at a boxing weigh-in, about the events leading up to February 5, 2016 and if there were any attempts on his life.

Kinahan, who has been trying to reinvent himself as a boxing promoter, is expected to address these issues in the full-length interview.

He also hits out at his his portrayal in the media and speaks about the controversial recent draw between two of his fighters, Josh Taylor and Jack Cattrall.

He said: “For me, the media manipulates everything. They create the reality for people for the future, what they want to think, what they see, what they eat, what they buy.

“Josh is a very dear friend of mine and so is Jack a very dear friend of mine. I know Jack’s kid has been over, his girlfriend. I know Josh’s girlfriend, spent a lot of time with them. Really good people.

“They’ve done nothing wrong.”

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