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<h1 class=""><span style="color:#20124d;">Paul Flowers, shamed ex Co-op boss &#8216;back on drugs,&#8217; caught on film buying drugs &#8211; on a four day bender </span></h1>
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<h2 class=""><span style="color:#990000;">&#8216;Crystal Methodist Minister&#8217; reverend Paul Flowers was filmed snorting lines as he entertained four naked rent boys at hot-tub party in his back garden </span></h2>
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<p>With crisps balanced on his nipples, disgraced ex-Co-op bank chairman Paul Flowers is caught napping during a four-day cocaine and ketamine-fuelled bender.<br />
The drug-loving suspended reverend – nicknamed the Crystal Methodist at the height of the scandal that enveloped him two years ago – was earlier filmed snorting lines as he entertained four naked rent boys at a bizarre hot-tub party in his back garden.<br />
The disturbing images, recorded last weekend, reveal Flowers has again fallen prey to his demons.<br />
He is still technically a church minister and vowed to change his ways after “life-changing” rehab.<br />
A rent boy who attended the party told how the ex-bank chief, who was in charge of billions of pounds, had sent him invitation texts saying “I have Charlie and Katie”, code for cocaine and the horse tranquilliser ketamine.<br />
The male escort, who we are calling Kris, said: “There were a lot of drugs. He just doesn’t seem to care. He just seems out of control.”</p>
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<div class="image-credit-wrapper"><span class="image-credit">S</span> <img class="captify" title="Paul Flowers has been filmed on a four day drug bender" src="http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7538249.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/PROD-Paul-Flowers-drug-investigation.jpg" alt="Paul Flowers drug investigation" width="615" height="620" /></div><figcaption><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i> </i></span></figcaption><figcaption><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Photo: Sunday Mirror</i></span><b><br />
Paul Flowers has been filmed on a four day drug bender </b></figcaption></figure>
<p>Footage from the party shows Flowers, 65, chopping up white powder on a table while chatting to a group of young men.<br />
He is later snapped topless and fast asleep in an armchair – with two crisps bizarrely balanced on his nipples.<br />
Flowers admitted he had “sinned” after he hit the headlines in November 2013.<br />
He was filmed in a car counting out £300 to buy cocaine and crystal meth in a drugs deal, earning him his nickname.<br />
A few days earlier he had appeared before a Treasury Select Committee to answer questions about the collapse of the Co-op’s deal to buy 600 Lloyds branches.He was accused of not even knowing the “very basic” details of the bank’s finances.<br />
Flowers was later arrested on drugs charges. In May 2014 he was fined £525 after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine, crystal meth and ketamine at Leeds Magistrates Court.<br />
Before his appearance he told how he had spent 28 days at a rehab clinic tackling his habit. In court, his drug use was attributed to the stress of caring for his terminally ill mother.<br />
He was said to be remorseful and was continuing to seek professional help.<br />
Flowers was suspended indefinitely by the Methodist Church in the summer of 2014 following his drugs shame.<br />
The church has been unable to resolve his position because he is “too unwell” to attend meetings.<br />
But his pledge to turn his life around is today exposed as a sham by Kris who was first taken by a friend to an earlier party at Flower’s home in Salford, Greater Manchester</p>
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<div class="image-credit-wrapper"><span class="image-credit">S</span> <img class="captify" title="Paul Flowers has previously been arrested on drugs charges" src="http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7538248.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/PROD-Paul-Flowers-drug-investigation.jpg" alt="Paul Flowers drug investigation" width="615" height="768" /></div><figcaption><b>Paul Flowers has previously been arrested on drugs charges </b></figcaption></figure>
<p>Kris said: “He was flouncing around speaking really posh. There were about 15 people there and loads of drugs and alcohol. When I arrived he told me, ‘I’ll get you at some point’.<br />
“He was saying things like ‘to good health’ as he snorted something. There were drugs everywhere, ketamine, coke.<br />
“He was talking about how he’d been in the papers in the past. He was paranoid about photos being taken.”<br />
After the party, Flowers went on a month’s holiday to South Africa. But while he was away he texted 22-year-old Kris with a series of crude messages.<br />
And following his return to the UK he invited him back to his house for another party – this time to frolic in a rented hot tub.<br />
Kris said Flowers paid him £200 to go along – but he ended up staying at his house for four days.<br />
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<div class="image-credit-wrapper"><span class="image-credit">A</span> <img class="captify" title="Paul Flowers had previously said his drug use was down to the stress of caring for his mother" src="http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7538244.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Disgraced-former-Co-op-bank-chief-Paul-Flowers.jpg" alt="Disgraced former Co-op bank chief Paul Flowers" width="615" height="409" /></div><figcaption><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i> </i></span></figcaption><figcaption><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Photo: Andy Commins/Mirrorpix</i></span></figcaption><figcaption><b><br />
Paul Flowers had previously said his drug use was down to the stress of caring for his mother</b></figcaption></figure>
<p>“I went on the Thursday and stayed until Sunday,” he said.<br />
“There was a big jacuzzi in the garden but he’d covered it with a gazebo so the neighbours couldn’t see in.<br />
“We were all naked in there. I wouldn’t like to be the next people hiring that out after what was going on.<br />
&#8220;When he was in the lounge he was getting a few lines ready on a plate. He did them side by side, one of cocaine one of ketamine.<br />
“There were a lot of rent boys, all around their early 20s, and a lot of drugs. People were coming and going all weekend.<br />
“Everyone was getting totally wasted. He was talking about getting a float in the Manchester Pride parade with a load of rent boys on it with him. He was also saying he has a guy who comes to his house to clean it naked.<br />
“He blames the press for everything and whenever the Co-op was mentioned he’d say ‘the b******s. He never spoke about his rehab.”<br />
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<figure class="inline-image clearfix portrait"><span class="image-credit">S</span> <img class="captify" title="Paul Flowers new life has been exposed as a sham" src="http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7538245.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/PROD-Paul-Flowers-drug-investigation.jpg" alt="Paul Flowers drug investigation" width="615" height="620" /><figcaption><span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Photo: Sunday Mirror</i></span><b><br />
Paul Flowers new life has been exposed as a sham </b></figcaption></figure>
<p>In early 2014, Flowers described the storm around his private and professional life as “hellish” while revealing he had spent a month in the Priory.<br />
While still chairman of the bank, he said he had come under “considerable pressure” from the Treasury to conclude the Co-op’s agreement to buy the Lloyds branches.<br />
The deal, which would have helped recoup millions in taxpayers money spent bailing out Lloyds, was scrapped when the Co-op’s own financial troubles came to light.<br />
Flowers said: “For me personally, there have been several months when it has been hellish. But during that process I’ve actually been very well supported by a raft of very good friends.<br />
“You certainly find out who your friends are, because a significant number of people in politics and in the Co-op and some in the church have been noticeable by their silence or their absence.”</p>
<p><span class="image-credit">S</span> <img class="captify" title="Paul Flowers had drugs and booze at his home in Salford, Kris says" src="http://i1.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7538247.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/PROD-Paul-Flowers-drug-investigation.jpg" alt="Paul Flowers drug investigation" width="615" height="620" /> <span style="font-size:x-small;"><i> </i></span></p>
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<figure class="inline-image clearfix portrait"><figcaption><b>Paul Flowers had drugs and booze at his home in Salford, Kris says </b></figcaption></figure>
<p>He said he had undergone an addictions treatment programme in rehab. “I found it both cathartic and traumatic,” he said.<br />
“But it actually helped me to look at not so much the superficial issues of the addictions themselves but the more deep-seated reasons why people resort to any sort of addiction.<br />
“For me that was life-changing. I am now much more secure in my own skin, much more self-aware than I was before.”<br />
Flowers was the $189,000 (£132,000)-a-year chairman of the “ethical” Co-op bank from 2010 until June 2013.<br />
He stepped down shortly after the bank was found to have a £1.5billion black hole in its finances. His lifestyle was exposed a few months later.<br />
<span class="image-credit">S</span> <img class="captify" title="Kris says Paul paid him £200 to go along to the four day party" src="http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7538250.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/PROD-Paul-Flowers-drug-investigation.jpg" alt="Paul Flowers drug investigation" width="615" height="620" /> <span style="font-size:x-small;"><i>Photo: Sunday Mirror</i></span></p>
<figure class="inline-image clearfix portrait"><figcaption><b>Kris says Paul paid him £200 to go along to the four day party </b></figcaption></figure>
<p>At the time, Flowers said: “Many of the things that have come into the public domain actually occurred after I had left office, and people assume that they had occurred before, but they are quite wrong.”<br />
After the allegations of his drug use emerged, the Co-op confirmed it was seeking to recover contractual payments totalling £31,000 made to Flowers amid reports that he was also the subject of an inquiry into “lavish” expense claims.<br />
He resigned as a Labour councillor in Bradford in 2011 after “inappropriate but not illegal adult content” was found on his computer.<br />
When Flowers appeared in court on his drugs charge his barrister said he had “lost so much” as a result of events and was not currently working.<br />
He is still receiving a minister’s salary of around £510 a month, although he had access to other assets after inheriting his mother’s estate following her death in 2012.</p>
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Flowers is understood to have paid £180,000 for his three-storey town house with funds from the estate, plus another £20,000 for a conservatory.</p>
<p>When asked if he would like to comment on the party at his house and alleged drug taking, Flowers would only say: “No thank you.”<br />
A Methodist Church spokesman said: “Paul Flowers remains suspended. We regret that our disciplinary procedure has been on hold following advice that he has been too unwell to attend meetings.”<br />
Flowers can still be called Reverend but the disciplinary process could strip him of the title.<br />
The church spokesman added: “We are very disappointed by these new allegations and the disciplinary panel will now review how we progress the matter.<br />
&#8220;We are grateful to the Sunday Mirror for bringing this to our attention.”<br />
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