London:
Rocker Pete Doherty's plea tohave his cocaine possession case thrown out of court has beenrejected by a judge here.
The 31-year-old singer was charged with the drug countlast September, alongside his two friends, Peter Wolfe andAlan Wass, following an investigation into the death offilmmaker Robyn Whitehead.
Director Whitehead, who was working on a documentaryabout the troubled Libertines star, was found dead from asuspected drug overdose in an apartment in Hackney, London inJanuary 2010.
The trio's legal team requested that the case wasthrown out at Thames Magistrates' Court in east London onFriday but a judge dismissed the plea, reported Daily Star.
Doherty and his co-defendants, none of whom turned upfor the hearing, are set to appear in court on February 2.
The 31-year-old singer was charged with the drug countlast September, alongside his two friends, Peter Wolfe andAlan Wass, following an investigation into the death offilmmaker Robyn Whitehead.
Director Whitehead, who was working on a documentaryabout the troubled Libertines star, was found dead from asuspected drug overdose in an apartment in Hackney, London inJanuary 2010.
The trio's legal team requested that the case wasthrown out at Thames Magistrates' Court in east London onFriday but a judge dismissed the plea, reported Daily Star.
Doherty and his co-defendants, none of whom turned upfor the hearing, are set to appear in court on February 2.
