Pete Doherty jailed for 14 weeks
Pete Doherty was jailed for 14 weeks yesterday after he admitted breaching a court decree designed to cure his do drugs addiction. The Babyshambles frontman was expected to wake up in a electric cell in Wormwood Gown prison house this good morning later on admitting missing appointments with the probation service.His lawyer said tests as part of the gild showed Doherty had still been exploitation category A drugs. It is the longest spell he has faced in slammer since 2003, when he was convicted of burglary. The judgment of conviction means Doherty will miss come out on acting at the Glastonbury festival in June.
Doherty was jailed by district judge Davinder Lachhar at mae West British capital magistrates homage. In October, the evaluate had precondition Doherty a suspended sentence for driving offences and possessing crack cocaine, heroin, ketamine and hemp.Yesterday Doherty's solicitor, Sean Curran, said that patch under the order testing had shown Doherty was taking class A drugs. He added that the singer missed two appointments in Jan and February, though he had kept 12 out of 14 appointments under the parliamentary procedure."He wanted to retain on the monastic order. He had missed appointments, merely he had engaged well with the probation servicing. Probation were non asking for the rules of order to be revoked. From Pete's point of view, he hadn't committed an offense spell on the order," said Curran."I think the order was portion him. Manifestly he didn't want to go to prison. He's for sure non criticising anybody or saying he's been gratingly treated."A program line from the 29-year-old's criminal record society, Parlophone, said: "Today, Simon Peter Doherty was sentenced to a total of 14 weeks in clink for existence in breach of his probation holy Order." It added that a picture at the Royal stag Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel Charles Francis Hall on Apr 26 would be rescheduled.This is non the first time the ace has been behind parallel bars. In Feb 2006, Doherty spent several days in Pentonville prison after being charged with possessing drugs. A year to begin with he spent tetrad nights in the lapp prison on charges of robbery and blackmail which were later dropped.
