The Right Reverend Tom Butler - The Bishop of Southwark

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The story as reported by The Sun.

'Steaming drunk' bishop shame.

A Bishop was so drunk he climbed into a stranger’s car before falling out and bashing his head, it was claimed last night.

Nicola Sumpter, 33, said the Right Rev Tom Butler staggered from a function into the back of her Mercedes.

She said the Bishop of Southwark, 60, tossed out her baby’s toys and refused to leave the car outside a South London bar on Tuesday night. Asked if he had been drinking, he replied: “I am the Bishop of Southwark. It’s what I do.”

When her husband Paul pulled him out, he allegedly fell and cracked his head.

The bishop’s spokesman last night admitted he could not remember what had happened.

And as reported by the BBC.

Bishop mugged walking to his home.

The Bishop of Southwark has been mugged near his home in south London.

The Right Reverend Tom Butler had his mobile phone, briefcase and spectacles taken in Tuesday night's attack near his house in Streatham.

A spokesman said: "He does not remember very much at all. He got a bump on the back of his head.

"He is OK and is in good spirits. He is back at work and really wants to downplay it." The bishop, 66, was walking home from a church event.

I have checked both web sites and it seems to be a genuine story - I have logged on to the Sun web site by an old link to make sure that I have not been looking at a copycat site and the story is there but reading some of the other stories I get the impression the Sun site has been hacked, either that or Sun reporters were having a ball over the weekend with all sorts of strange substances (maybe that's nothing new!)