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Pete Doherty Gets Conditional Bail

added 04 February 2005 at 17.09

Doherty (wearing a dark blue raincoat) and former Left Hand guitarist Alan Wass appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court earlier today (February 4) to face charges of robbery and blackmail. Neither spoke in court except to confirm their identities.

Doherty was granted bail after his record company put up £150,000 in bonds and was allowed to leave but must return on February 21 to face the charges  at Snaresbrook Crown Court. However, presiding District Judge, Dorothy Quick insisted on a series of conditions for the bail. Doherty must:

• Start a course of drug rehabilitation at a London clinic on Monday (February 8)
  
  
• Adhere to a strict night time curfew, meaning he will not be allowed to leave his home between 10pm and 7am and will only be allowed outside his house accompanied by a bodyguard.
  
  
• He has also had to surrender his passport. This puts pay to his reported plans to fly to Moscow to live with his girlfriend, supermodel Kate Moss. 
  
  
• He must not to approach any prosecution witnesses or go to the Rookery Hotel, where the alleged incident took place.
  
  
• He must report daily to his local police station.

Outside court, Sean Curran, solicitor for both Doherty and Wass men, issued a brief statement, saying:

"The District Judge has granted both defendants bail. They both ferociously deny the allegations against them. They look forward to a satisfactory conclusion at the Crown Court when not guilty verdicts are returned on all counts.''

As previously reported, Doherty was arrested on Wednesday (February 2) after police were called to the hotel on Peters Lane, London EC1, after reports a man had been assaulted. Reports claim that Doherty attacked filmmaker Max Carlish who recently made a documentary on Babyshambles. Carlish was taken to University College Hospital, London, with facial injuries (two black eyes and a broken nose) before being discharged.

The brawl allegedly broke out after Doherty demanded money for photos Carlish recently took showing the musician smoking heroin, which were then sold to a tabloid newspaper. After being arrested the singer was then held overnight in a North London police station.

Its not know whether Doherty will face a custodial sentence if found guilty to the charges, although the fact he received a four-month suspended jail sentence for possession of a flick knife in September 2004 may well count against him.

Doherty was previously jailed for six months for burgling the house of his former Libertines bandmate Carl Barat in 2003.

Keep checking Xfm Online today for all the breaking news on this story as it unfolds.

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