The former chairman of the cooperative bank, Paul Flowers, has been sentenced to three years behind bars after stealing nearly £ 100,000 of an older spinster to spend drugs and vacations.
Flowers, 74, betray his long -term friend, Margaret Jarvis, and stole the enormous sum money to finance his expenses, Manchester Crown Court heard today.
Flowers, a former Labor Council and Minister of Church, called the 'Crystal Methodist' after a newspaper drugsting, was the proxy of the lawyer and executor of Miss Jarvis's will, a teetotal retired teacher, who was never married and had no children.
His public profile helped his friend trust him with her affairs, the court heard.
