A former Brookside actor has been jailed for nine years after he went on the run in Spain before his trial for a £13.6million fraud that exploited thousands of child models and their parents.
Ex-TV soap actor Philip Foster, 51, was jailed in his absence for eight-and-a-half years in February 2025 for fraud and money laundering, but hid in Spain before his trial.
Foster, who also went by the stage name Philip Dowd, played jealous thug Christian Wright in the popular Liverpool-based soap during the mid-1990s.
He was extradited last month and at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday he was jailed for a further six months for
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