Hollyoaks has recently announced that Ripper Street star Benjamin O'Mahony is set to join the Channel 4 soap for a county lines drug story.
Benjamin joins the show as part of a year-long look at the issue surrounding children being exploited by criminal gangs. A special hour-long episode will air next week showing teens, Juliet Nightingale and Sid Sumner, leaving their hometown to deliver drugs before discovering how dangerous the criminal world can be.
O'Mahony, known for portraying the role of DS Frank Thatcher in Ripper Street, will join Hollyoaks in the coming weeks as Victor, the county line boss, who is more senior than Jordan Price.
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