I don't know how legit this is but figured I'd post it anyway
Doherty's cat is hooked on crack
Daily Star
22/08/07
ONE of junkie rocker Pete Doherty’s pet kittens is a crackhead, too.
The poorly moggy had to be saved by the RSPCA after eating cocaine.
And it is not just the kitten which has used up one of its nine lives – Pete walked free from court yesterday after a massive police bungle.
Charges of breaching his bail had to be dropped because officers failed to get him before the court within 24 hours – a legal requirement.
Doherty, 28, had been arrested in the early hours of Monday, hours after performing at Stafford’s V Festival. He was allegedly caught with drugs.
The news that he has dragged one of his pets into his junkie antics outraged animal campaigners.
His adult cat – named Dinger, junkie slang for a syringe – recently had a litter of five kittens. When one of them fell ill, a worried vet tested the sick kitten and found cocaine in its bloodstream.
RSPCA spokesman Julie Stainton said: “It is a police matter, so we cannot deny or confirm the identity of the man who had his kitten removed. But it is very important to protect animals from substances that can do them serious harm.”
Pete – ex-lover of model Kate Moss, 33 – yesterday walked free from Bethnal Green police station in east London, where he had been held in the cells.
The police blunder meant he did not even have to appear at West London Magistrates’ Court as planned.
There, District Judge Susan Williams fumed: “As the police ought to know, anyone arrested for breach of bail must be brought before court within 24 hours.”
Pete has repeatedly been spared jail, despite a string of drugs offences. Two weeks ago a judge gave him “one more chance” to clean up.
Police were last night investigating their blunder.
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