Paul Flowers, 74, had pleaded guilty to 18 fraud charges amounting to £100,000 after abusing his position as the executor of the will and holder of power of attorney for a woman named Margaret Jarvis.
An arrest warrant had been issued for Paul Flowers after he failed to turn up to a hearing earlier this month.
A disgraced former church minister and banking group boss who acquired the nickname Crystal Methodist has been jailed for three years by a judge in Manchester.
He was due to be sentenced earlier this month but failed to turn up and an arrest warrant was issued.
He hit the headlines in 2013 after the Mail on Sunday published secretly filmed footage of him handing over £300 in cash for crystal meth and other drugs in Leeds.
