Damn its taken them long enough.

[Garp]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7337212.stm

Finally they've shoved Pete Doherty behind bars for drugs related stuff. Shame its only 14 weeks.

If only they'd have thrown the book at him earlier instead of just letting him get away with it all the time, presenting the wonderful image to kids that doing drugs or other illegal stuff has no consequences if you're caught.

[Justsomebloke]

Prison is the Last place a Heroin addict should be sent.
Also blaming Pete for kids doing drugs is as Pathetic as blaming gaming for murders.

[Garp]

Originally Posted by malc30

Prison is the Last place a Heroin addict should be sent.
Also blaming Pete for kids doing drugs is as Pathetic as blaming gaming for murders.

I'm not blaming Pete for kids doing drugs, I'm blaming the justice system for publicly letting him get away with the illegal acts without consequences, due to his celebrity status. He walks out of one hearing for breaking terms of his parol relating to drugs taking, gets arrested and cautioned less than 30 minutes later in possession of drugs, again. Still nothing done. Admits publicly to driving under the influence of drugs, and still gets next to nothing by way of punishment. If it had been joe public doing half the stuff he's done and admitted to doing, they would have been behind bars faster than you could blink, but instead its taken this long. All the whilst that says clearly "You can do drugs, we'll arrest you, but hey, we let you go again with no hassles"

[Stan_Lite]

Originally Posted by Garp

I'm blaming the justice system for publicly letting him get away with the illegal acts without consequences, due to his celebrity status. He walks out of one hearing for breaking terms of his parol relating to drugs taking, gets arrested and cautioned less than 30 minutes later in possession of drugs, again. Still nothing done. Admits publicly to driving under the influence of drugs, and still gets next to nothing by way of punishment. If it had been joe public doing half the stuff he's done and admitted to doing, they would have been behind bars faster than you could blink, but instead its taken this long. All the whilst that says clearly "You can do drugs, we'll arrest you, but hey, we let you go again with no hassles"

In my home town, it's not uncommon for junkies to appear in court half a dozen times for drugs related offences before finally being given a custodial sentence. I realise different areas have different ways of dealing with these issues but I don't think the argument that his celebrity status affords him some sort of semi-immunity from doing time really holds much water.

I fully agree that the guy's behaviour is out of order and he needs sorting out (along with all the other addicts who's behaviour causes inconvenience or poses a risk to others) but I'm not sure (as Malc says) that prison is the best place to do that. I don't have the answer to the rehabilitation of addicts but there has to be a better way to deal with them than sending them to general prisons.

[BBx]

Good.

That will keep him out of the newspapers for 14 weeks too.

(fingers crossed)

No doubt he will be out in 2 for 'good behaviour'

BB x

[Justsomebloke]

He'll probably get more exposure through getting jailed & released than anything else BB. He'll also get more smax than he did before as well
He'll also meet a crap load of new dealers/wasters & contacts for future drug endeavours. It really is a lose lose situation for junkys.
If they were isolated from the other convicts & got clean it would at least accomplish something but it doesn't
Honestly people i have known people who would never even touch smax come out of a jail sentence addicted to the crap, One of my All time best mates did & he was dead set against drugs because of me before he went in.

[Justsomebloke]

That is because doing drugs is a Personal choice & only possesion of drugs is a crime.

[Lomster]

Originally Posted by malc30

That is because doing drugs is a Personal choice & only possesion of drugs is a crime.

Or driving whilst unfit through drink or drugs...

[Mark]

I don't think that really works as you'd have to posess them to 'do' them.

Anyway, I'm on the fence on this. It's about ****ing time they did something, but as Malc has correctly pointed out jail is often the worst place for a drug addict.

Best solution in my book - send the guy into obscurity, never to be heard about in a news report again. Never going to happen of course. :/

[Flibster]

Who?