Cheriegate conman deported

CONVICTED conman Peter Foster, the man at the centre of the Cheriegate controversy, is on his way back to Australia following his deportation from Ireland.

Foster was escorted yesterday to Dublin Airport from Mountjoy Prison, where he had spent the night following his detention after he arrived off a flight from Paris.

The 40-year-old was deported because of a two-year jail term for fraud imposed in Britain in 1996, according to garda sources.