Pete Doherty speaks to police over actor's death

Pete Doherty spoke to police today about the death of an actor at a London party. The Libertines singer went to a police station to answer questions about the death of 30-year-old Mark Blanco, his solicitor confirmed. The actor fell to his death from the balcony of a flat in Whitechapel, east London, in December 2006. He was taken to hospital with severe head injuries and died the next day. Doherty's solicitor, Sean Curran, stressed that the singer was not formally questioned by police. "He did attend a police station to help them with their inquiries, but he attended voluntarily," he said. The Metropolitan police is continuing to investigate the death of Blanco, a Cambridge graduate. An initial police investigation found that he had jumped deliberately, but a coroner then ordered a second independent investigation. This prompted his family to commission their own specialist reports on how Blanco died, including a study by neurobiology expert Professor Richard Wassersug, who concluded that he could not have deliberately jumped and suffered his head injuries. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We have made no arrests. Inquiries continue and we are not prepared to discuss who we may or may not have spoken to."