I wonder how you would feel when you are on the way to an interview knowing that this is the type of questions that you are going to be asked. The interview covers the usual ‘tabloid’ areas of interest, Kate Moss, drugs, prison and his friendship with Amy Winehouse. Alright the interview is with Loaded so you expect it to “aim low, hit low”. It is this that is obviously seized on by the majority of the media. If you google Pete Doherty all the top listings currently are about an interview he has just given for Loaded where he describes among other things missing Kate Moss. Thinking about that one more carefully, having sex with Marilyn Monroe is pretty cool. I wonder how if when asked what his greatest achievement was if he thought it was writing a critically acclaimed play ripping apart the alienation associated capitalism in the United States or having had sex with Marilyn Monroe. It would be the same with the dramatist Arthur Miller. Must be nice being one of the most talented musicians currently making music but you are more famous in certain quarters for who used to have sex with. To the tabloid press though he will always be primarily Kate Moss’s ex. Imagine you took a snap poll with the 8 out of 10 cats audience, the most frequent replies would most certainly be musician, artist, writer, poet, junky and among others. But he asked for the sentence to be as minimal as possible if the judge wasn't with him.Pete Doherty is many things. He has deep-seated issues, unidentified and undiagnosed, and impossible to recognise."īecause of his client's issues Mr Wilson asked for sentence to be deferred so Van-Meir could be further assessed. He conceded his client had hit Miss Aspell three times, but said the injuries caused were "wholly unintentional." Mr Wilson told the court: "He accepts fully his responsibility for this. Rodney Wilson, defending, conceded the assault caused grave and permanent injury.
Driver sped past police on M32 at 120mph.Knowle West man who blew chance from judge lands himself in jail.I stay in all the time, I only speak to friends and my mum." Read More Related Articles I feel ugly, I find it hard to look at myself in the mirror. She added that she had lost her former "bubbly" personality. Said the assault left her disfigured, with possible permanent nerve damage to her jaw and a daily regime of pain control. In an impact statement Miss Aspell described how Van-Meir threatened her if he didn't get his own way.
Miss Aspell told police: "He does boxing, he knows how to punch." She said after hitting her to the ribs he punched her in the face." Van-Meir was interviewed but made no comment. Want the latest news delivered straight to your inbox? Click here to sign up forBristol Live's newsletters. She spent days in hospital before having an operation to insert three pins into her jaw, the court heard. Neil Treharne, prosecuting, described how a concerned Miss Aspell phoned police when Van-Meir appeared in Swiss Drive on the scooter.Īs she made the call Van-Meir got off the scooter and punched her twice to the body and once to the head before riding off. Van-Meir, who admitted breaching a non-molestation order, was handed an indefinite restraining order to have no contact with Miss Aspell. You punched her three times, you are a man with experience of boxing and it shows." The judge told him: "The court has seen video footage.
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Van-Meir, 35, of Marshfield in South Gloucestershire, pleaded guilty to wounding after the assault on January 24. She then attended Bristol Royal Infirmary, where she was diagnosed with a broken rib, a broken jaw in three places and the loss of four teeth.
He got off the scooter and delivered two hard blows to her head and one to her face.īristol Crown Court heard she remained conscious and stayed on her feet as Van-Meir rode off. Israel Van-Meir was riding a motor scooter in Swiss Drive, Bristol, when he spotted Danielle Aspell and her two young children. But a court heard the sentence he imposed on his victim was a ruined life. A trained boxer who knocked his ex-partner's teeth out in the street has been jailed.