A number of preliminary hearings in the case were previously aborted when Flowers cited health problems, and in November 2023 another crown court judge issued a similar warrant when Flowers did not appear as scheduled.
The Financial Conduct Authority concluded he used his work mobile telephone to make a number of inappropriate telephone calls to a premium-rate chat line and he used his work email account to send and receive sexually explicit and otherwise inappropriate messages, and to discuss illegal drugs.
Judge issues arrest warrant for disgraced former minister and banking group boss Paul Flowers.
The Mail on Sunday story, headlined “Crystal meth shame of bank chief”, was the starting point for a very rapid and public decline in Flowers’ fortunes.
A judge has issued an arrest warrant for a disgraced former minister and banking group boss who acquired the nickname “Crystal Methodist”.
