Tax evader must pay £9.5m or spend more time in jail

Raymond Woolley was found guilty of conspiring to cheat the public revenue through a 38m "carousel" fraud involving mobile phones.

Sentenced to nine years' imprisonment in December 2002, he escaped from Sudbury Prison in February 2005.

He was found in Switzerland, and the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO) secured his extradition back to the UK in March 2008.

Woolley, who had also pleaded guilty to two money laundering charges, is serving the remainder of his sentence at Hewell Prison in Redditch, Worcestershire.

The RCPO applied to have him serve an extra four years for failing to pay back the 9.5m – now said by lawyers to be more than 12m with interest – which was the subject of a confiscation order in April 2006.

Woolley now faces having to serve an additional four-year sentence unless he pays back the millions he owes.