Sex, drugs, blasphemy, depravity, arrogance: The Crystal Methodist 'who didn't believe in God'... in his own brazen texts to his dealer



Paul Flowers kept up an astonishing stream of sex and drug obsessed texts, even after his humiliating recent performance before the Commons Treasury Select Commitee and as The Mail on Sunday prepared last week’s revelations about his drug use.

The texts are littered with references to ‘coke’ (cocaine), ‘ket’ (ketamine), and crack, as shown by this selection from exchanges with dealer Peter Wilson (whose name we have changed).

They provide an insight into how he was leading an increasingly depraved lifestyle and show his growing obsession with a 17-year-old friend of Wilson’s, despite knowing he was ‘100 per cent straight’.

Self portrait: Paul Flowers in a mobile phone picture he sent to drug dealer Peter Wilson

A 17-year-old boy... and a date-rape drug

In one of his more disturbing messages, Flowers says he has two bottles of date-rape drug GHB.



His friends say Flowers would often take small amounts of the muscle relaxant during their wild parties.

Drug deals on day of first Commons hearing

On October 29, Flowers is summoned before the Commons Treasury Select Committee to answer questions about the Co-op Bank’s near collapse under his stewardship.



Because of an over-run, he is asked to return the following week.



But it is clear he had other plans, and declares later that evening: ‘I’m on the ket now!’



































'Off our trollies' on cocaine and ketamine

Messages: Flowers kept up his stream of sex and drug obsessed messages even as the Mail on Sunday prepared last week's revelations about his drug use

Surviving 'like Gloria Gaynor' at MPs' grilling

When he does appear before the committee on November 6, his performance is woeful and he guesses at the bank’s assets, but underestimates by £44billion.



Yet, with typical hubris, he quotes from the gay anthem I Will Survive, saying: ‘I survived like Gloria Gaynor.’



Later he talks of buying crack, cocaine and ketamine.





Charlie, 'crystal coke'... and ketted again

Desperate to meet '100%' straight boy

Flowers begins to find the 17-year-old student fascinating even before he meets him when he learns he is straight and, in a seedy exchange, suggests letting the young man watch him having sex, adding: ‘If he sees me off my trolley he might relax.’



Despite his disastrous performance at the committee, he can’t help asking Wilson if he saw him on the Parliament Channel.

Drug references: The texts sent by Flowers littered with references to 'coke' (cocaine), 'ket' (ketamine) and crack

'Floating on ket' before Cenotaph service

Both hours before and after his participation in the Remembrance Day service at Bradford cenotaph, Flowers was taking cocaine and ketamine.



One Conservative councillor remembered being angered at his disrespectful ‘jabbering’ to other people during the procession in the city where he was a Labour councillor for ten years.

Back on 'refreshing' ketamine - at 8am



Insight: The messages provide an insight into how Flowers was leading an increasingly depraved lifestyle

Last Friday... 'fed up with press vultures'

...and Saturday: I've been fitted up in MoS

And just hours after the MoS breaks story...





'I need something I ought not write about'

'I am the whipping boy of the right wing press'

How Flowers bragged that his ex-police chief friend monitored raid on his home

Search: Police revisit Paul Flowers¿s Bradford home on Wednesday

The Reverend Paul Flowers boasted to his drug dealer that a retired police chief inspector friend was allowed to watch over last week’s raid at his home.

Flowers called Peter Wilson hours after the raid finished and said a ‘good mate of mine’ knew the officers and that they had not found anything incriminating.

West Yorkshire officers with sniffer dogs executed a search warrant at Flowers’s home in Bradford on Tuesday.

The Methodist minister told Wilson they had left with ten items including computers containing his work while at the Co-op, memory sticks and DVDs.

Afterwards Flowers told his drug dealer: ‘A good mate of mine, who was a Detective Chief Inspector with the police, knew these officers and went there all evening.

‘He spoke to them at the end and then told my house-sitter, “They have nothing.’’

‘He said, “They’ve taken things away simply as a matter of form and they’ll go through them, but there is nothing at all which is incriminating. They have nothing of any substance”.’

Following the raid, Flowers told Wilson: ‘Although I started off the day feeling a bit s****y when I knew the police were over there, I’m actually now much, much, much relieved.’

A legal expert last night warned that if the claims were true then they could have ‘very serious’ consequences for the retired officer – and possibly result in him facing a charge of perverting the course of justice.

Paul Trotter, a partner and head of law at legal firm Bray & Bray, said: ‘The danger is that if the suspect has extra information it could affect what they tell the police in an interview.’

When confronted with the allegations, the retired officer told The Mail on Sunday: ‘I cannot comment. I don’t know where this has come from. You’re wasting your time.’

A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said: ‘Officers executed a search warrant as part of their investigation into alleged drugs offences.

‘On arrival, officers were met by a man in the house and presented him with the warrant. This person was not the owner of the property but someone who was looking after it.

‘Police had no further contact with anyone other than a man who asked police to move a vehicle.’