Movie producer conman gets six years

A fraudster who set up bogus film companies to fleece hire firms out of more than £2 million worth of Hollywood-grade equipment has been jailed for six years. Christopher McAllister, 36, hired couriers to visit equipment leasing firms in South Africa, Canada and the US to pick up top end cameras and lenses from unsuspecting victims. McAllister sent a stooge to pick up lenses from a firm in Johannesburg after claiming he was producing the 12th series of a TV…