Brookside Actor Arrested in Spain Over £14m Fraud
Brookside Actor Arrested in Spain Over £14m Fraud
The News
Barry Philip Foster, 51, a former actor on the British soap opera "Brookside," has been arrested in Spain over a modeling-agency fraud that British outlets put at up to £14 million.
Foster was held on an international arrest warrant in Torrevieja, a town south of Alicante on the Costa Blanca, according to the Daily Mail and The Sun.
He had spent about a year on Britain's most wanted list, the Daily Mail reported.
The Independent reports he will be extradited to the UK to serve an eight-and-a-half-year sentence.
The Scheme
Foster ran a network of fake modeling agencies, the Daily Mail reported. The Sun reported the operation conned about 6,000 aspiring models out of £14 million. The Independent put the fraud figure at £13.6 million.
Timeline
Foster is named on Britain's most wanted list of fugitives, according to the Daily Mail.
Spanish authorities arrest Foster in Torrevieja on an international arrest warrant. The Sun and the Daily Mail report the arrest; The Independent reports he will be extradited to the UK to serve an eight-and-a-half-year sentence.
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No comment from Foster or a lawyer for him appears in the reports gathered so far.
British coverage frames the case around the scale of the losses and the length of his time on the run: The Sun stresses the roughly 6,000 aspiring models it says were conned, while the Daily Mail emphasizes the year Foster spent on the most wanted list before Spanish police caught up with him in a Costa Blanca resort town.
What's Next
The next step is extradition. The Independent reports Foster is to be returned to the UK to serve his eight-and-a-half-year sentence — a process that runs through the Spanish courts before any handover.
No extradition hearing date has been reported.
More
The reported loss figure is not settled across outlets: The Sun and the Daily Mail use £14 million, while The Independent uses £13.6 million. The Frank will update the number if British authorities publish an official total.
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