Pete Doherty horsing around in prison

JAILED rocker PETE DOHERTY

stares vacantly in his cell —

amid revelations he is shooting up

heroin in the prison’s DETOX unit,

the crime reporter Anthony France

is reporting April 16th for the U.K. Sun.

The junkie singer, 29,

has been injecting smack smuggled

into London’s tough Wormwood Scrubs

slammer.

Doherty,

jailed for snubbing rehab orders,

is paying for the drugs by begging credit

from fellow lags and writing IOUs.

A fellow inmate said:

“We can’t believe how much

he’s still clucking for it.

They put him inside to force him

to give up but Pete always has a

need to feed his habit.”

The heroin revelations came as

The Sun obtained photos of Doherty

behind bars, wearing prison-issue blue

T-shirt and grey tracksuit bottoms.

Doherty was banged up for 3½ months

last week for failing to take drug tests

ordered by a court after he admitted

possessing heroin, crack, cannabis

and the horse tranquiliser ketamine.

He is sharing a cell in the Scrubs’ Connibere

detox wing with a 28-year-old drug dealer.

Doctors are giving him heroin substitute

methadone in a bid to wean him off.

But the rocker is topping up with the real thing.

The fellow inmate said:

“He hasn’t received his prison wage yet

so he’s getting the drugs on credit and writing IOUs.”

Doherty has struck up a friendship with a burly

ex-streetfighter named Ray, who is protecting him

after lags started a rumour the singer brought a

stash of drugs with him from the outside.

The inmate said:

“It wasn’t true but it was enough to make people

want to find him and rob him.

Ray is making sure this doesn’t happen.”

Prison officers are said to treat

Doherty like a superstar –

and tramp from other wings to get his autograph.

The inmate said:

“He usually signs his name next

to a scribbled smiley face with a trilby.”

He added that Doherty sleeps on a urine-stained mattress

and has been told he will be transferred to an open

prison when a place is available.

A Prison Service spokesman said last night:

“We will act on any intelligence which indicates

drugs are being smuggled or abused.”

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Rash Manly                           22moon.com

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