Pete Doherty Finally Going To Jail?

That Pete Doherty, eh? When he's not taking drugs, writing rubbish songs and being worshipped by a clueless swathe of imbeciles, he's,  erm,  actually, that's pretty much all he does. Sorry. We don't know where we were going with that.

Anyway. It's that same fondness for narcotics that, of course, has landed Pete Doherty in all sorts of trouble with the law over the last couple of years, thereby plastering his chimney-sweep-with-leprosy little face over the cover of many a tabloid. Remarkably, though, Pete Doherty has always managed to wiggle his way out of doing actual jail time, despite having a criminal record that would make an ASBO-collecting Chav weep into their Stella.

Until now.

Following the Babyshambles performance at this year's V Festival (during which the helpless smack-tit was four hours late), Pete Doherty has added another tally-mark to his list of shame by getting arrested yet again for suspected drug possession. The term 'suspected' possibly being used here in the way everyone 'suspects' that the Sun rises in the morning and sets at night. Or that Babyshambles are crap. Whichever is the more obvious.

Speaking to increasingly-embarrassing teenybop rag NME, lawyer Paul Harris explained that this new arrest could see Pete Doherty finally being thrown in the slammer for good:

"He's on bail for a similar offence [drug possession], so because he may have committed this new offence his risk of jail is increased. If he pleads not guilty it will make less of a difference to his sentencing. He'll be innocent until proven guilty. But if he pleads guilty it will increase the risk of jail drastically.''

Pete Doherty off the streets? Legions of worthless Shoreditch pricks wandering around helplessly, eyes wide with fear beneath their ironic trilbies, uncertain of what to do or think now that their spiritual Pied Piper is behind bars? Sounds wonderful to us. But wait - it's not all good news. Harris goes on: 

''The judge will decide on his overall progress, and won't just base the decision on this one incident. He may still be responding to detox treatment while committing the offence, which will be taken into consideration."

So chances are he's going to get off with a mild wrist-slap yet again. No doubt while a pensioner caught doing three miles over the speed limit is sentenced to sixteen years hard labour and a cell bunk-up with Charles Bronson.

Which still sounds preferable to listening to whatever half-baked shite Doherty is going to release next. 

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Top Lawyer: 'Pete Doherty's Drastically Increased His Chances Of Jail' - NME