D Thursday, January 28, 2010 News Addict Pete took heroin into court DRUG addict Pete Doherty was spared jail yet again yesterday after being convicted of walking into court with 13 heroin wraps in his pocket. Anti-drugs campaigners accused the Babyshambles singer of mocking the law after he escaped with a 750 (864) fine and 85 (97) costs. He arrived 45 minutes late for his latest appearance at Gloucester Crown Court, in the UK, blaming his cars sat-nav system. Doherty, 30, ex-boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, also owes 2,050 (2,362) in unpaid fines for careless driving and drink driving offences. Yesterday he was accused of carrying the heroin wraps into the same court on December 21 last year where security guards noticed they had fallen from his coat. District judge Joti Boparai accepted the recovering addicts claim that he had left the heroin worth 192 (221) in his coat by mistake a long time ago. Defence counsel Bruce Clark told the court the coat was one of hundreds Doherty owned and the wraps were residual drugs. This was the ghost of past offending, not the resurrection of it, he added. Doherty was jailed in 2007 for various offences. by Colm Kelpie Judge tells jury he has no bias in Lillis verdict A JUDGE last night recalled the jury in the murder trial of Eamonn Lillis to explain his summary of evidence. Justice Barry White asked the six men and six women to return to court an hour after deliberations began to stress he was not biased towards a particular verdict over the death of the television producers wife, Celine Cawley. I told you at the outset of the charge that I dont carry a sword for the prosecution or a shield for the defence and that is my position and I hope you dont think otherwise, the judge said. I hope you dont think my charge was directed to secure a particular verdict, because it was not. The jury were recalled after legal submissions were carried out in their absence. The Central Criminal Court has heard ten days of evidence and two days of lawyers arguments before the jury was asked to find Lillis guilty of murder, manslaughter or not guilty. They have been asked to try to return a unanimous verdict first. During the trial, the jury heard Lillis initially told garda a burglar was in his home when he came back from walking the dogs, but he later retracted the statement, saying it had been to protect his teenage daughter from a row he had with his wife. Murder denial: Eamonn Lillis said wife Celine Cawley died by accident after a row Nightclub criticised by judge A JUDGE threatened to close down Krystle nightclub for having blackguarded a female Traveller, whom a bouncer would not let back in, saying her heels were too high and posed a safety risk. Judge John ONeill said Sarah Stokes had acted in a very ladylike manner on August 7 when the Harcourt Street club refused to re-admit her to a 30-a-ticket charity event after she went for a drink in Dicey Reillys, which shares the building. The court heard Ms Stokes, of Cherrywood Park, Clondalkin, had attended the fundraising function in Krystle and was claiming discrimination. After the judge threatened to close the club, the owners are believed to have offered her a 5,000 settlement. Lillis, who has been on bail throughout the trial, de- nies the murder at the family home in Howth in 2008. Mr Justice White said the defences case was that, during a row Lillis had with his wife she slipped and banged her head. The prosecution case was that Lillis had no credibil- ity and had repeatedly lied, he said. In his summing-up on Tuesday Mr Justice White asked the jury to act dispassionately and set aside any feelings of sympathy or revulsion. He also asked jurors to consider discrepancies in the accounts of the morning Lillis gave to his beautician lover Jean Treacy and to authorities. Deliberations continue today. Angelina breaks cover P6 v1 index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html