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Disgraced former Co-operative Bank boss Paul Flowers admitted possessing drugs including cocaine and crystal meth.
The minister, dubbed the Crystal Methodist, appeared before magistrates in Leeds yesterday and pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of the class-A drugs and one count of possession of class-C drug ketamine.
Flowers arrived at court before the doors had been unlocked, leaving him to stand on the street for five minutes to face a media scrum. He said: “Don’t ask me any questions because I won’t give any answers.”
He repeated his description of the reporters and photographers as “vultures” as he stood and endured a barrage of flash photography, eventually saying: “Do you have enough now?”
He was fined £400 and ordered to pay £125 costs.
The Co-op said last year that it would seek to recover £31,000 in payments and look into the “lavish” expenses of Flowers, who stood down as chairman last June.
