Entertainment 18-08-2004 who: Rock star Pete Doherty what: Threated with jail for carrying flick knife where: Thames magistrates` court, LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "If the law was to send me to prison it wouldn`t be able to look itself in the eye," the former Libertines frontman and confessed heroin addict told waiting reporters as he emerged from court having been charged with possession of an offensive weapon, reports today`s Mirror. Insisting the four-inch knife was bought on holiday as a gift for a friend and had been blunted, his defending counsel Frank Brazell said Doherty is a "peaceful man" with no history of violence. [... more]

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