Doherty: “The Picture Is Staged”

Pete Doherty has refuted the allegations that he injected heroin into the arm of an unconscious fan while she was asleep, as suggested in a photo printed by The Sun newspaper.

Doherty was questioned by police after the photo appeared in the tabloid, but the Babyshambles frontman claims that it is one of a number of staged shots that were recently stolen from his flat.

In a posting on his official website, Doherty writes: "Just a note to note the unjust Sun's disturbing and ridiculously offensive 'story'. Firstly the photo's are stolen from my flat so... upsetting and personally catastrophic... how rude.

Secondly its a staged shot and what a f*cking liberty to suggest I'd bang up a sleeping lass. Darkness."

DL