Foster taken to Dublin Airport

Convicted con-man Peter Foster was today taken by immigration police to Dublin Airport after spending the night at Mountjoy Prison.

The Australian, who helped the British Prime Minister’s wife Cherie Blair buy two flats in Bristol, was refused entry to Ireland yesterday afternoon when he landed at Dublin on a flight from France.

He was held under the Aliens Act at the prison last night as immigration officials prepared to remove him from the country.

At around 11.30am today a red Transit van with blacked out windows took Foster out of the prison and across to Dublin Airport, where he was expected to be boarding a flight shortly.

Gardai said they expected he would be sent back to France, but would not confirm details of the flight.

A spokesman for the Prison Service said Foster spent last night in a cell in the prison’s main C2 wing, since there was no room in the holding cells usually used for people due to be deported.