Sunday 18 May 2008

Pete Doherty released from Wormwood Scrubs jail

Pete Doherty released from Wormwood Scrubs jail



The musician Pete Doherty left hand Wormwood Gown prison house this morning after serving 29 years of a 14-week condemnation for breaching his probation.Prison life was "a circle of gangsters and Wireless 4", he told waiting reporters, borrowing a sound from one so he could ask a friend to nibble him up.Emerging from the west London prison's gate at 7.10am, smoking a butt, the former Libertines frontman said: "Thank you Mrs Thatcher for putting me in the company of the most dangerous criminals in the country."










He said he was looking for forward to a rum and coke and disbursal time with his cats.Doherty has had a long and public battle with diacetylmorphine dependance and was jailed for 14 weeks after missing an engagement with his probation officer. In October last year he had been presumption a suspended sentence for drug and driving offences.Asked if he had taken drugs piece inwardly, he replied: "Easily, I knew it was sledding to be a chip roughly to start with, with the overcrowding and the health check facilities, although they do their best - they ar good, they can't real ply for the average junkie."He showed reporters a certificate proving he had passed a drugs screen while in prison then ran down the road to his friend's car, pursued by reporters. The flurry distracted passage motorists to such an extent that a motorbus and a lorry collided, causing a traffic block.Doherty's jail prison term forced him to miss what would have been his biggest solo execution yet, at the Royal stag Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel Hall in London. Had he served the full term, he would accept missed his scheduled appearance at the Glastonbury festival.