Singer Pete Doherty is spending his first full day behind bars at the start of a 14-week prison sentence for drug offences.

The Babyshambles frontman was jailed for breaching the terms of a probation order by missing appointments with probation officers and using drugs.

He was stopped by police in Kensington, west London, in May last year and found with class A drugs.

The following October, he pleaded guilty to possession of crack cocaine, heroin, ketamine and cannabis, and admitted various driving offences. He was given a four-month jail sentence suspended for two years.

He was sentenced to prison at West London Magistrates' Court in front of District Judge Davinder Lachhar, who deferred a jail term in October.

Doherty's solicitor Sean Curran said his client would not be appealing.

His management company has been forced to postpone a planned concert at the Royal Albert Hall, due to take place later this month.

If Doherty serves his full term in jail he will also miss out on a date at Glastonbury festival at the end of June.

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