Last month, Pete Doherty was jailed for six months after being filmed taking crack cocaine.Freddy McConnel was a skilled guitarist, a table-tennis champion and a member of Mensa with an IQ of 144 but he began to “idolise” Doherty at 13. He began taking drugs but his parents thought he had beaten his habit only to learn after his death that he had begun injecting heroin in an attempt to ape the musician’s lifestyle. His father is James McConnel, the composer, and his mother is Annie Tempest, the cartoonist whose work features in Country Life. Mr McConnel warned parents concerned that their children might suffer the same fate that there was little they could do but “pray”. He said: “In my view, Doherty is the lowest form of life on the planet”. “I don’t blame him directly for killing my son but the attitude to drugs that was engendered in him came as a result of the ethos Doherty espouses”. “There’s nothing wrong with being an anti-hero but if it kills people either directly or indirectly it’s just despicable”. “My son idolised him and the only difference between them was that my son had more talent”. “He lived his life according to Pete Doherty and even wore a hat like his.” He added: “It’s very difficult for parents because teenagers think they are invincible”. “What can they do? They have to pray. Because you can teach them or force them but teenagers will do what they want to.”
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