A British court has ordered musician Pete Doherty to pay damages to a photographer, after he smashed her camera as she tried to snap him before he returned to a clinic for drug treatment.
Magistrates in Yeovil, southwest England, said the 29-year-old Babyshambles lead singer should pay Catherine Mead £918.27 ($NZ2,455) for breaking her lens on August 22 last year.
Mead, a photographer with the South West News Service agency, had her equipment broken when Doherty became angry that she was following him and his family around the town of Crewkerne.
Doherty, a recovering drug addict who has made numerous court appearances in London on possession charges and served 29 days of a 14-week jail term for breaching his probation earlier this year, pleaded guilty to criminal damage.
