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| Singer Pete Doherty has been handed a suspended prison term for drugs and motoring offences. | |
| Doherty had previously admitted driving while uninsured and with no MoT while in possession of crack cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis. | |
| He was sentenced to four-months in jail - suspended for two years - at West London Magistrates' Court on Friday. | |
| The 28-year-old was also given an 18-month supervision order and a 12-month drug rehabilitation order. | |
| Order revoked | |
| District judge Davinder Lachhar ordered that Doherty pay a £475 fine for driving without insurance or an MOT. | |
| Doherty admitted the charges after being arrested in High Street, Kensington, west London in May. | |
| He was arrested again in August over allegations he had broken conditions of his bail by possessing drugs at Staffordshire's V Festival, where his band had played hours earlier. | |
| But he was freed on a technicality when police failed to bring him before the court within the required 24-hour timeframe. | |
| Earlier this week a judge revoked the remaining six months left to serve on a drug treatment order after advice from experts. | |
| Judge McIvor said Doherty had already been supervised over 18 months and he had been convinced the plan in place for the musician to remain drug-free was going to be followed. |