Troubled footballer, Paul Gascoigne, was back in hospital last night after going “hysterical” while staying at another hotel yesterday.

The police were called to the four-star Millennium Hotel in Knightsbridge, after staff became concerned over Gazza’s condition.

The 40-year-old, had been drinking heavily and was behaving unpredictably.  He had booked into the hotel and an inside source said “He then rang down for a steak, but a few minutes later cancelled it, saying they should just bring him the steak knife.  The staff said ‘No way’ and immediately began to fear for his safety.  Gazza kept trying to reassure everyone by saying he was speaking to his psychiatrist.”

“It was about ninety minutes after he checked in and the hotel decided to call the police.  About ten officers then went to his room.  It was in complete darkness.  There were cigarette ends lying around and the gin bottle was on the floor.  The officers then heard splashing noises coming from the bathroom.  When Gazza heard the officers, he shouted, ‘I’ve ordered cocaine - I want cocaine’.

“The police went in and he was naked in the bath with the water a couple of inches from the top.  The taps were still running.  He told them if he couldn’t kill himself by slashing his wrists, he would drown himself.  Then he held his shaven head under the water.  The police dipped in to pull him up and hauled him out of the bath.  He was extremely emotional and distressed, crying his eyes out.”

“They made him dress and marched him to the hotel reception.  He was out of it, shouting that he did not want to go with them, and that he was going to call his psychiatrist.  Outside the hotel he refused to get in the van and began scuffling with the officers.  At one stage they told him he was being sectioned under the Mental Health Act.  He calmed down when they agreed he could be taken to a local hospital without handcuffs.”

In a separate incident on Saturday, he had apparently left the Kensington Royal Garden Hotel, after setting off the fire alarms by smoking in his room and was later spotted in a hair salon having his hair dyed bright red, which he obviously wasn’t that pleased with, and sometime in between shaved it all off.

Gazza was only freed from a psychiatric hospital two months ago where he was detained for two weeks under the Mental Health Act.