Hollyoaks has announced that Ripper Street star Benjamin O'Mahony is joining the Channel 4 soap for a county lines drugs storyline.
O'Mahony joins as part of a year-long look at the issue and how children can be exploited by criminal gangs. An hour-long episode will air next week, showing teenagers Juliet Nightingale (Niamh Blackshaw) and Sid Sumner (Billy Price) leaving their home town to deliver drugs, only to discover how dangerous the criminal world can be.
O'Mahony, who played DS Frank Thatcher in Ripper Street, will join Hollyoaks in the spring as county lines drug boss Victor, Jordan Price's more powerful and manipulative boss.
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