Pete Doherty avoids jail
26/10/2007 16:21  - (SA)  

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London - Rock musician Pete Doherty was given a suspended jail sentence of four months on Friday for a series of drug and driving offences.

He was fined £400 for driving without insurance and £75 for not having a valid inspection certificate for his car.

Appearing in West London Magistrates Court, Doherty was also placed under court supervision for 18 months and made subject to a 12-month drug treatment order.

In Thames Magistrates Court in east London on Wednesday, Doherty had been released from a court-ordered drug treatment order after satisfying a judge that he would continue his efforts to beat drug addiction.

Numerous arrests

Doherty, 28, was arrested in May and subsequently pleaded guilty to driving while in possession of crack cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis.

He was arrested again in August for allegedly breaching bail conditions by possessing drugs, but that charge was dropped because police failed to meet a deadline for bringing him to court.

Best known as the on-off boyfriend of model Kate Moss, Doherty fronts a band called Babyshambles.

- AP

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