Pete Doherty is now linked to three deaths, yet his record label says nothing

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Freddy McConnel looked “angelic”: the neighbours say it; the photos prove it. His parents talk tenderly of their “staggeringly bright”, “deliciously naughty” boy, the teenager who had the talent to be a novelist, the baby who would “sing” to them in his cot.
Freddy spent a brief part of his life growing up in an idyllic Norfolk farmhouse, by a flower-studded meadow. He died at the end of last month, aged 18, in a shabby London flat, on a bed surrounded by needles, from a heroin overdose.
Robin Whitehead was also beautiful. A scion of the Goldsmith family, one friend remembered her as “brilliant, vibrant. Hilariously funny, very, very talented.” The 27-year-old film-maker was found in a London flat in January 2010, dead from a heroin overdose.
Mark Blanco, 30: he was a Cambridge philosophy graduate. His mother talks of her “incredibly bright” child, of his “great thirst for knowledge and living”. Found dead in a London street, December 2006, after a mysterious fall from a balcony during a party.
Three children, three bright futures, three pairs of grief-stricken parents. And one man linking them all: Pete Doherty, the singer – the not-so-angelic singer. Thirty-two years old, 15 court appearances in eight years, 25 drugs convictions, plus three more for burglary, driving without insurance and assault.