Pete Doherty Fined For Drug Smuggling
The latest in a seemingly never-ending stream of drug related mishaps for Pete Doherty involves the Babyshanbles singer being fined for smuggling Class A drugs at Oslo airport
Babyshambles had flown to Oslo airport in Gardermoen, Norway on Friday morning (August 12) to play the country’s Oya Rock Festival later that day.
However, they failed to leave the drama that surrounds their every move in the UK behind them as Doherty and another as-yet-unnamed member of the band were detained at the airport after customs official found they were carrying class-A drugs.
The pair were held for four hours at the airport before eventually being released and fined 8,000 Norwegian Krone (£700) each for carrying of crack cocaine and heroin.
Oslo police prosecutor Harold Holmsen had refused to name the offenders but was quoted by The Mirror as saying, "I can confirm two British citizens were stopped by the customs on Friday at around 4pm. One of them had 1.7g of coke, the other had 1.5g of heroin. They both received 8,000 krone fines and were released several hours later.
"It will not go to court as they accepted their fines but it will be registered as a criminal offence in Norway."
As an equally charming afterthought, as a result of the delay the band finally arrived at the festival site an impressive five hours late and didn't start performing at the event until 10.30pm.
As usual their set was shortened to 30 minutes, with the 4,000 strong crowd enjoying highlights that reportedly included Doherty telling the crowd his singing was “supposed to be out of tune”, throwing bottles of vodka into the audience and as a piece de resistance, throwing up all over the stage.
Classy.
Babyshambles’ new single ‘F**k Forever’ (the newly remixed version) is released today (August 15) and the band’s now impossibly massively anticipated debut album is currently reported to be released on October 10. In addition the single after that is being reported as being ‘Albion’ with a release date of September 26.
A new fly-on-the wall documentary, entitled ‘Who the F**k is Pete Doherty’ is also being broadcast on BBC3 on August 28 at 10pm.
Taken from Xfm.co.uk