Doherty pleads guilty to possession

Singer Pete Doherty pleaded guilty today to possessing heroin and cocaine.

The Babyshambles frontman appeared before Ealing Magistrates’ Court in west London, where he admitted two charges of possessing Class A drugs which were found when police stopped his car nearby on November 30.

The court heard that the former Libertines singer was spotted at the wheel of a Jaguar on Cleveland Road breaking the speed limit and was stopped by police.

Prosecutor Bryony Darbyshire told the magistrates that police noticed that he appeared to be under the influence of “something” with his eyes glazed and pupils dilated.

The officers told the singer, whose on-off relationship with supermodel Kate Moss had been in the headlines, that they were going to search the car and he admitted that they would find drugs.

Ms Darbyshire told the court that officers found a total of three packets containing 0.875gm (0.03oz) of heroin and one packet of cocaine, weighing 0.234gm (0.008oz).