Overview

• Gwynne Thomas Hollis was convicted in 2023 of conspiring to supply Class A drugs and received a 17-year sentence after absconding during a case linked to a York drug network.
• The former Emmerdale and Shameless actress says she has not spoken to her father for almost ten years and had long understood he was involved in crime.
• She gave an exclusive interview to the Manchester Evening News to address social-media efforts to expose her family history and to draw a line under the issue.
• Hollis lived in Thailand for about two and a half years running a legal cannabis shop before returning to the UK in November, stressing the distinction from her father’s illegal activity.
• She says other family members have visited him in prison and report he is coping and mentoring inmates on mental health, and she does not intend to reach out.