Former Brookside actor sentenced to jail over sham modelling agencies

Philip Foster lives in Spain and was sentenced in his absence after defrauding more than 6,000 people

A former TV soap actor has been sentenced to eight and a half years in prison after masterminding a 13.6m fraud that targeted aspiring models.

Former Brookside actor Philip Foster, 49, ran an operation involving a network of sham modelling agencies for more than eight years.