Party over for celebrity drug users, says police chief

In a cultural climate in which even minor celebrities are increasingly untouchable (seriously, how long before we're all opening chapels dedicated to Barry Scott and passing laws that make it illegal not to look like Vernon Kay?) the head of the metropolitan police has decided that enough is enough.

Sir Ian Blair - for it is he - is tired of witnessing oxygen-thieves such as Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse ingesting ludicrous amounts of narcotics and walking away without paying any consequences. Well, apart from retreating into drug-fuelled paranoia, rampant ill-health and frittering away what talent they once had ...

Blair cited stick-insect-with-lipstick Kate Moss as a good example. Moss has previously been exposed by tabloids as being a major coke fiend, and Blair isn't happy that nothing seems to have become of this:

'I was quite clear that I expressed my concern over the Kate Moss story, and we did that same investigation and we hit the same issue. And I think it's reasonable for a jury to be able to say, beyond reasonable doubt, 'I can see that behaviour, you convince me that you're taking talcum powder, because that's an unusual way to take it.'

The Crown Prosecution Service don't share the same view, however:

"Any suggestion that the CPS does not prosecute celebrities is completely untrue. We will prosecute when the police provide us with sufficient evidence to do so."

Evidence, eh? Boy - just want until we hand in that dossier on Paul Daniels. You think you really know who killed Diana?

Note to lawyers: we are in no way inferring that popular television magician Paul Daniels was involved in the death of the People's Princess. Unless you know something we don't, that is ...

Written by C J Davies on 6 Jun 2008 5:44 PM. Permalink