Peter Foster fails to attend Federal Court to face contempt judgment over weight-loss scam SensaSlim Peter Foster. A WARRANT will be issued for the arrest of conman Peter Foster unless he hands himself in to police within two hours. Justice John Logan in the Federal Court ordered the warrant be issued if Foster has not gone to police by 5pm. Justice Logan also ordered Foster be held in prison until the next hearing date for the case next month. The court was told Foster faces a jail term after being found in contempt for being involved in a weight loss scam. There will also be moves for the forfeiture of a $120,000 surety that was put him up so he could be released on bail. Justice Logan said he was giving Foster two hours' grace on humane grounds because his mother was known to be ill. Foster had been ordered in 2005 to have no involvement in weight loss products for five years. Foster's involvement in diet scams stretch back almost 30 years and he once boasted he had been locked up in 10 jails on three continents. Foster was first arrested over the SensaSlim scam at the hospital bedside of his mother, Louise Poletti, in November 2011. He was released on bail on a $125,000 surety after arguing he had to care for his mother, who had suffered a stroke. He has a history of jumping bail and going on the run. In 1997 he went into hiding during proceedings to extradite him to England over a diet scam. In that instance he was arrested in Melbourne two months later, with a family friend ordered to forfeit a $250,000 bond she had put up as surety for him. He last year claimed the SenaSlim case was "rubbish" and "absolute nonsense." SensaSlim - which has also been linked to Melbourne underworld figure Mick Gatto - was promoted with claims it had been tested on 11,000 people, who had lost up to 45kg each. But the research institute behind the trial never existed, and photographs of researchers from the company website had been stolen from elsewhere. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission launched the legal action against Foster.