Doperty Fined For Bringing Heroin To Court

Pete Doherty has been ordered to pay a £750 (about $1,300 Canadian) fine for taking four grams of heroin to court with him last month.

Doperty was in Gloucester, England last month to face careless driving charges, for which he was charged £2,210 (about $3,800 Canadian). Then, security asked him to empty his pockets on his way into the court, and a plastic bag with 13 wraps of heroin in it fell out of his coat pocket into the floor.

Doperty was arrested and charged with heroin possession following his court appearance that day.

"Either this was sheer stupidity or a ploy to get more publicity," district judge Joti Boparai said in court on Wednesday (Jan. 27), according to BBC News.

Bruce Clark, Doperty's lawyer, said the Babyshambles singer "was not mickey taking" and had forgotten the drugs were in his pocket, refuting the allegations he'd taken the drugs to court on purpose. It isn't known whether he refuted the judge's statement that Doperty was "stupid."

In addition to his £750 fine, Doperty was ordered to pay £100 (about $170 Canadian) in court costs, according to NME.com, and judge Boparai also told him to immediately pay the £2,210 fine imposed on him in December, which Doperty had not yet done.

Doperty just finished a short tour of Sweden, Norway and Ireland in support of his Grace/Wastelands debut solo album, which came out last year.