Pete Doherty

Profession: Singer
Place/Date of Birth: Hexham, England, 12 March 2020
Associated with: Kate Moss

Telling him that it wasn’t the end, but the beginning she added: "You must be pleased."

Judge McIvor said experts had convinced her that the plan already in place for Doherty to be clean was going to be followed.

She said: "There is no need for statutory supervision or state funding."

Outside court Doherty told reporters and photographers he was going to have to stay drug free.

He said: "I have just had enough really."

Reiterating the judge’s quotes, he said: "It’s just the beginning, you know what I mean. My life has changed."

Adding that there was always the pub, Doherty said he was taking one day at a time.

He said he was undergoing rehabilitation and wanted to get back on the road with his band.

Pete’s impromptu gig - Oct 9 2007
Pete Doherty apparently celebrated coming out of rehab with an impromptu gig at a local pub.

The rocker - whose band hit the No 5 slot in the charts with Shotter’s Nation this week - delighted crowds at The Sun Inn in Marlborough in Wiltshire, reports the Sun.

The 28-year-old has been staying at the Clouds clinic for a month and is now staying in a nearby cottage to stay in line with bail conditions of avoiding London - and his crowd of pals.

At the weekend, he decided to make himself at home and head to the local for a few pints.

An onlooker told the paper: "It was a normal Saturday night until Pete rocked up.

"As soon as word got out, the place was packed and people were begging him to sing.

"He was asking for pints of Guinness as he paused between the tracks and was kissing all the girls who asked for one.

"It was a really great atmosphere."

Pete given another chance to avoid jail - Oct 3 2007
The district judge due to sentence Pete Doherty has adjourned his hearing to give him a chance to kick his drug habit, his lawyer said.

The 28-year-old singer is facing a possible jail sentence for drug and motoring offences.

Sean Curran, of Guney Clark Ryan solicitors, said Doherty would now be able to fit in an aftercare drugs rehabilitation plan before appearing at West London Magistrates’ Court on October 26.

District Judge Davinder Lachhar accepted the application for adjournment on hearing that Doherty has tested negative for drugs throughout his six-week residential drugs treatment and wants to "give himself a chance" to recover, he said.

The Babyshambles frontman will complete his residential care on Thursday and then take part in aftercare treatment until October 20, he explained.

Mr Curran said: "Pete’s doing very, very well, extremely well and he wants to give himself a chance.

"The court knows he’s tested negative for drugs throughout his residential programme - that’s six weeks now.

"The judge wants to see how he’s keeping after the aftercare before he goes back for them to assess him."

He emphasised: "This was not a court application or anything to do with court bureaucracy - it was my application, which was accepted at 5.15pm last night."

Doherty was arrested in Kensington, west London, in May and pleaded guilty to driving illegally while in possession of crack cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis.

He was arrested again in August over allegations that he’d broken bail conditions.

But he walked free on a technicality when police failed to bring him before the courts within a 24-hour legal timeframe.

Kate never liked my music, says Pete - Oct 1 2007
Pete Doherty has apparently admitted that his ex-girlfriend Kate Moss hated his music.

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Biography

It’s hard to believe that just a couple of years ago we didn’t even know who Pete Doherty was now that not a day goes by when another entry to the PD catalogue of disasters is published in the tabloids.

A long and drawn out battle with drugs, an especially fiery relationship with Croydon’s favourite daughter and any number of bust ups and arrests has made the singer/songwriter one of Britain’s most recognisable faces (all be it a screwed up, sweaty zombie face).

Born on March 12 1979 in Hexham, Northumberland and living at various times in Liverpool, Shepherd’s Bush, Coventry, Dorset, Cyprus and Russia, Pete Doherty first came to the public’s attention as one half of the singing songwriting duo who fronted Britain’s must see band, The Libertines, who kick started the country’s new garage rock scene in 2002/03.

Debauched backstage shenanigans and frantic but brilliant shows saw The Libertines hit the headlines time and time again and their debut album, Up The Bracket, shot up the charts. However, the band’s success was to be short lived and numerous problems, between Pete and the rest of the band (specifically with best friend Carl Barat - the pair met when they became flatmates in Stoke Newington) saw them part ways but not before Pete hit the headlines for drink and drug problems which caused him to steal from his bandmates to feed his habit.

It was around this time that Lisa Moorish gave birth to Doherty’s child, Astile but, rather than settling down Pete carried on taking heroin, selling his ’My Drug Hell’ stories to any and every tabloid to pay for his out of control habit before being put in to several rehab clinics (including a Thai monastery), none of which have changed his ways.

Nonetheless he has managed to forge a career on his own, first working with Wolfman on For Lovers then forming Babyshambles, initially as a way to make money for.you guessed it! Now trying to get clean with the aid of Naltroxene after an arrest for assault, which resulted in some jail time as well as a curfew and constant supervision Pete is reportedly set to marry supermodel Kate Moss.
November 2007