About a month ago, I lamented the fact that Pete Doherty was spending far too much concentration upon presenting himself as a so-called “serious musician” and not nearly enough of his precious moments violating the law and, well, landing himself in police custody. After all, our Antihero hasn’t been on the wrong side of the jail cell since leaving Wormwoods Scrubs prison in May 2008 after serving a mere 29 days of a 98 day sentence for failing to fulfill the bail conditions of one of Doherty’s random Fall 2007 arrests. For the morbidly curious, this latest stint would bring his total hard time served to…. 33 days, mates. Since then, Pete has managed to keep a relatively low profile, due to sheer luck and savvy publicity, but we knew it couldn’t last:

Pete Doherty has been arrested in Switzerland after being accused of taking drugs on a British Airways flight. The ex-Libertines and Babyshambles singer was detained on arrival at Geneva on Friday after cabin staff found him slumped in a toilet on board. He was escorted back to his economy class seat apparently intoxicated. A member of the cabin crew found a hypodermic needle in the toilet and the pilot called police to meet the plane.

“He had been in there for about 25 minutes when the announcement came over the tannoy for the crew to prepare the flight for landing. The crew knocked on the door but Pete didn’t come out. They eventually managed to get in 10 minutes before the plane landed. Pete was taken back to his seat and he looked completely out of it. One of the crew took a needle out of the toilet wrapped in a tissue.”

Aye, heroin sleep is a bitch, ain’t it? Geneva police have confirmed that Doherty was arrested and, after a fine was paid (most likely by his management), released back into society at large. Naturally, Pete was allowed to perform at that gig in Switzerland, but this incident blows the makeshift lid off his little ruse of sobriety. British Airways has reserved the right to ban Doherty from future flights, and, to be certain, London’s metropolitan police will, at least temporarily, be keeping one eye on the misadventures of one Pete Doherty.

Ah well, at least Pete managed to recently reiterate his usual stance against the BNP at the recent annual Love Music Hate Racism festival, where he changed a line of “What a Waster” to the ever-so-charming, “You two bob racist cunt.” Hit the next page for some video footage of Pete’s speech and performance, along with a worshipful crowd that would make Friedrich Nietzsche swoon with envy:

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