Pete Doherty has been released on bail after being arrested over the weekend in relation to a set of images which appeared in The Sun on Friday. The tabloid ran various pictures of the Babyshambler in their publication last week, one of which depicted him injecting drugs into the arm of an apparently unconscious female. Police arrested Doherty on Saturday on suspicion of "administering a noxious substance recklessly", raiding his flat just hours ahead of his scheduled appearance at this weekend's Love Music Hate Racism gig in Trafalgar Square. A Met spokeswoman confirmed that the singer "was released on bail to return on a date in July pending further inquiries."
Doherty himself has apparently responded to the publication of those images with a statement on his Babyshambles forum, claiming that the shots were staged. "Just a note to note the unjust Sun's disturbing and ridiculously offensive 'story'," he wrote. "Firstly the photos are stolen from my flat so... upsetting and personally catastrophic... how rude, secondly it's a staged shot and what a fucking liberty to suggest I'd bang up a sleeping lass. Darkness."