Doherty to be sentenced over drugs

12 April 2012

Singer Pete Doherty faces a possible prison sentence when he appears in court on drugs charges.

The Babyshambles star pleaded guilty to possessing quantities of crack cocaine, heroin, cannabis and ketamine as well as two driving charges, when he appeared at West London Magistrates' Court on July 3.

He narrowly avoided a jail term when district judge Davinder Lachlar opted to defer sentencing him on the condition he went into rehab to tackle his addiction and did not commit any more offences before he case came up again.

But Miss Lachlar left Doherty in no doubt that he could go into custody if he failed to take up a place he had been offered on a detox programme.

She told him she was considering all sentencing options.

Doherty's six offences all related to his arrest on May 5, when his car was stopped by officers in Kensington High Street, London.

Crack cocaine and herbal cannabis were found in his clothes and then more drugs, including heroin and ketamine were revealed when he was strip searched at a police station.

At the July hearing, Doherty's solicitor Sean Curran argued the charges related to "small amounts" of illegal drugs, and that the singer had been working extremely hard on his new album at the time of his arrest and he had had a "difficulty in his personal life".

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