A KINAHAN mob gunrunner nicknamed the ‘Rocket Man’ has been given 18 months jail after trying to secure a €260,000 mortgage with bogus documents.

Jonathan Harding, 46, of Sallins, Co Kildare, is currently serving a 10-year sentence for possession of a large amount of lethal weapons.

But the gangland crim won’t spend any more time banged up after receiving a concurrent term yesterday.

Harding was before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on signed pleas of guilty from the District Court.

Harding admitted using three false payslips from January, February and March 2016 and a false bank statement covering August 2015 to March 2016.

He additionally admitted a false payslip and false bank statement on dates between October 2014 and April 2016, at the Bank of Ireland on Drimnagh Road, in Walkinstown, south Dublin.

Harding was sentenced to ten years in prison in January this year after he pleaded guilty at the Special Criminal Court to possession of nine revolvers, four pistols, a sub-machinegun, an assault rifle and various ammunition magazines on January 24, 2017, at a unit in Greenogue Business Park, Rathcoole, Co Dublin.

Mr Justice Tony Hunt had suspended the final year of the term.

Judge Melanie Greally jailed him for 18 months yesterday after she heard details of his an application for the €260,000 mortgage.

Harding was asked to attend at the bank with the original documentation but never did so and a few days later he withdrew his loan application stating he had been successful elsewhere.

Judge Greally noted there was no actual loss to the bank and Harding co-operated with the Garda probe.

Judge Greally said: “The practice of trying to secure a significant amount of cash on the back of false documentation must be taken seriously.”

Garda Robert Lambert agreed with defence counsel it was “a fairly unsophisticated fraud in the manner in which it was executed”.

He accepted that a bank official immediately spotted that the bank statements supplied didn’t appear right.

Harding earned his ‘Rocket Man’ nickname following the seizure of two rocket launchers in 2010 and had previous convictions, including possession of €800,000 worth of heroin.