Pete Doherty horsing around in prison
JAILED rocker PETE DOHERTY stares
vacantly in his cell —
amid revelations he is shooting up
heroin in the prison’s DETOX unit.
The junkie singer, 29,
has been injecting smack smuggled
into London’s tough Wormwood
Scrubs slammer.
Doherty,
jailed for snubbing rehab orders,
is paying for the drugs by begging
credit from fellow lags and writing IOUs.
A fellow inmate said:
“We can’t believe how much he’s
still clucking for it.
They put him inside to force him
to give up but Pete always has a
need to feed his habit.”
The heroin revelations came as
The Sun obtained photos of Doherty
behind bars, wearing prison-issue blue
T-shirt and grey tracksuit bottoms.
Prison … Wormwood Scrubs
Doherty was banged up for 3½ months
last week for failing to take drug tests
ordered by a court after he admitted
possessing heroin, crack, cannabis and
the horse tranquiliser ketamine.
He is sharing a cell in the Scrubs’
Connibere detox wing with a
28-year-old drug dealer.
Doctors are giving him heroin
substitute methadone in a bid
to wean him off.
But the rocker
is topping up
with the real thing.
The fellow inmate said:
“He hasn’t received his prison wage
yet so he’s getting the drugs on credit
and writing IOUs.”
Doherty has struck up a friendship
with a burly ex-streetfighter named Ray,
who is protecting him after lags started
a rumour the singer brought a stash of
drugs with him from the outside.
The inmate said:
“It wasn’t true but it was enough
to make people want to find him
and rob him.
Ray is making sure this doesn’t happen.”
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Prison officers are said to treat Doherty
like a superstar –
and tramp from other
wings to get his autograph.
.
The inmate said:
“He usually signs his name next
to a scribbled smiley face with a trilby.”
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He added that Doherty sleeps on a
urine-stained mattress and has been
told he will be transferred to an open
prison when a place is available.
A Prison Service spokesman said last night:
“We will act on any intelligence which
indicates drugs are being smuggled or abused.”
Pete Doherty giving his cat Dinger “something” to smoke.
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