Pete Doherty facing German jail

By | Published on Wednesday 6 July 2011

Pete Doherty

German police this week said that they plan to charge Doherty with “careless intoxication”, which carries a maximum sentence of five years, in relation to allegations that he was involved in a burglary in the city of Regensburg earlier this year.

The Libertines and Babyshambles frontman was in Regensburg in March to film the movie ‘The Confession Of A Child Of The Century’, in which he stars. A witness told a local paper Mittelbayerische Zeitung that she saw three men, who were all drunk and speaking in English, standing outside the shop in question at the time the break in is believed to have taken place, when a guitar and a number of records were stolen. She added that she saw one of them reaching through a broken window and that “it was Doherty, I clearly recognised him”.

Doherty later admitted to being outside the shop when the window was smashed, but said he had been drunk and had no further recollection of the event.

If Germany’s law enforcers want to lock him up though, they’ll have to wait until August, when he is due to complete a six month sentence for drug possession back in England.