PETE DOHERTY - DOHERTY DISAPPOINTS PRISONERS

DOHERTY DISAPPOINTS PRISONERS

Troubled rocker PETE DOHERTY upset inmates after he was banned from a recent prison gig - they hoped he would help them with their drug addictions. Prisoners at Pentonville jail in London were left disappointed when a performance by Babyshambles frontman was vetoed by the U.K. Prison Service over fears he sent out the wrong message. Doherty has a history of substance abuse and recently escaped a jail sentence for drug possession. However, inmates at the prison believe a visit by the star would have been beneficial. One tells British newspaper the Independent, "They should have let him come because he knows he has the same problems as us. The only difference is he can afford the drugs." Dirty Pretty Things played a set beside the cells in prison on Monday (27Aug07), as part of the Wasted Youth awareness campaign.