Moss's lover detained in drugs swoop

Pete Doherty, the drug-addicted rock musician boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, was released on Sunday after being arrested following a raid on his tour bus.

Pete Doherty, the drug-addicted rock musician boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, was released on Sunday after being arrested following a raid on his tour bus, the singer told journalists.

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Doherty said the arrest was "some sort of mistake," and insisted that he was not using drugs on his current tour.

He said police had confused a patch designed to get him off drugs with real narcotics.

"It's for an implant and they thought it was 'hard stuff'," he said.

Police in Shrewsbury, a town in central England, said they had carried out searches at one address and two coaches and detained "a number of people" in a major operation involving police dogs and forensic teams.

Doherty's band, Babyshambles, played a concert in Shrewsbury on Saturday night.

Doherty, a 25-year-old self-confessed user of heroin, crack cocaine and other drugs, has been dating Moss for some months.

The supermodel, 31, has lost a series of big-name clients in recent weeks following newspaper allegations she was a cocaine user. Moss has since checked into a US clinic.

Britain's newspapers have found the relationship between the fashion icon and her infamously scruffy and disorganised beau a source of seemingly endless fascination.

Doherty is British rock music's current notorious bad boy, having been kicked out his previous group for persistent substance abuse, even serving a brief jail term for burgling a band mates's apartment to raise drug money.