Prince Crakchead Is Still A Crackhead BTW

THE Sun today calls for junkie rocker Pete Doherty to be jailed —as we publish shocking footage of him once again injecting heroin.

Just hours after claiming to be drugs free at an awards bash,
he was proving that he is as far as ever from kicking his deadly addiction.

Now, after countless ineffective slaps on the wrist for drugs offences, the time has come to lock him up for his own good.

The grim video — shot on a mobile phone and lasting 1min 14secs - shows Doherty crouched on the floor, holding a needle in his mouth.

He stares into the camera, “cooks up” the heroin on a spoon, and fills the syringe. His head slumps forward as he injects it into his tattooed right arm.

The Sun is well aware of the sickening nature of the images — and prints them only to show Doherty is not cured and is a terrible role model.

They were taken at the Babyshambles star’s home in Wiltshire on Friday — hours after the MTV European Music Awards in Germany.

In the footage, he is wearing the green wristband from the previous night’s ceremony — and is still in the same clothes he returned home in.

Just hours before the bash, 28-year-old Doherty — who recently completed six weeks in rehab — had joked to a TV reporter that he was “missing” hard drugs.

A source close to him said: “It’s not the first time he’s injected since he was supposed to have gone clean.

“He may have got clean through rehab, but as soon as the temptation is put in front of him, he cannot help himself. It’s so sad to see. He’s been given so many chances and so many fresh starts and he just throws them all away.

“It’s not fair on those who have tried to help. It makes a mockery of the legal system.

“Anyone else would have been sent to jail by now.”

Doherty has been warned numerous times that he faces jail if he does not kick his drug habit.

In 2003 he admitted a five-year crack and heroin addiction as he was jailed for burglary. The ex Libertines singer promised to quit drugs in 2005 after getting together with supermodel Kate Moss.

But months later he was back on the drugs after Kate was pictured taking cocaine.

And in April 2006 shocking pictures emerged of Doherty injecting a girl slumped on a floor. The teen later claimed he had been taking blood to use in a painting. Since then he has been on a merry-go-round of court appearances followed by rehab.

Just weeks ago — on October 24 — he was released from a drug treatment order by Thames Magistrates’ Court after testing negative for crack cocaine and heroin.

Earlier he had told reporters outside: “I’ve had enough. It’s just the beginning. My life has changed.”

Two days later he was let off jail at West London Magistrates’ Court, after admitting crack and heroin charges.

He was given a four-month suspended sentence and a 12-month drug rehab order.

With ironic timing, Doherty talks about “being clean” in tomorrow’s issue of music mag NME.

He said: “It’s hard work. I think I miss it a bit. It’s sad, but I’m in mourning for an armful.”

This made me sad, call me crazy but I kind of believed this was the end.

The Sun