Apprentice star avoids jail

A FORMER contestant in Lord Sugar’s hit TV programme The Apprentice was given a suspended sentence for fraud yesterday.

Apprentice star avoids jail

Mortgage broker Christopher Farrell attempted to dupe lenders by falsifying customers’ applications so they were more likely to be loaned money.

The former Royal Marine, who appeared in the most recent series of the BBC1 show, inflated applicants’ salaries and forged documents to clinch them a mortgage — and in turn increase his chances of reaching his sales bonus.

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