Doherty set to be freed from jail today

Troubled rocker Pete Doherty is expected to be freed from jail today after spending the weekend behind bars.

Doherty, ex-singer with The Libertines and on-off boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, was held in Pentonville prison after appearing in court on Friday charged with robbery and blackmail.

The judge at Highbury Corner magistrates court had granted him bail on condition that his record company, Rough Trade, provide a surety of £100,000 (€145,000) and EMI, which owns his recording rights, another £50,000 (€72,000).

But the money was not raised in time for Doherty to go free the same day. Proof that the money is available is expected to be produced to the court today.

Doherty will then not have to spend any more time in Pentonville before his next court hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court in two weeks time.

However, he has been ordered to start a drug rehabilitation course in London today.

He will also have to observe a curfew between 10pm and 7am and not leave his home in Islington, north London, without a security guard provided by his record company.

The charges against him relate to an alleged dispute with documentary maker Max Carlish at the Rookery Hotel in Islington and the alleged taking of items including Mr Carlish’s Barclaycard.

Doherty, a self-confessed hard drug addict and now singer of the band Babyshambles, has been at the centre of a media frenzy during his brief relationship with Kate Moss, aged 31.