Pete Doherty to be released from prison

Babyshambles star Pete Doherty is set to be released from Wormwood Scrubs prison next week.

The 29-year-old musician is currently serving a 14-week sentence for repeatedly breaching his probation. He is expected to be released on Tuesday, meaning that he will have served only 29 days behind bars.

The singer, best known for his work with The Libertines alongside Carl Barât, was jailed on 8 April for breaching a probation order granted after a series of drug-driving offences, and a four-month suspended sentence for posessing crack cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis.

The Sun newspaper has reported that he continued to take heroin while locked up, despite being given the substitute methadone.

Doherty was moved to a different wing of the prison on 18 April after it was discovered that fellow inmates where planning an attack on him.

In September 2003, Doherty received a six-month jail sentence after admitting breaking into the home of his former Libertines bandmate.