In a further twist to the story that has dominated Indigo Flow over the last few weeks, Libertine star Pete Doherty has fled the Thamkrabok Monastery drug rehabilitation centre in Thailand after less than a week.

In the last month the guitarist and vocalist has also booked himself out (or, in one case, possibly been thrown out) of branches of The Priory in London and Paris. It was hoped that a stay in the remote monastery in Thailand would allow Doherty to finally kick his addiction to heroin and crack.

A statement from the monastery, which has treated thousands of patients over the last 46 years, including the godson of Eastenders star June Brown, reads, “Having entered into the free treatment program at Thamkrabok Monastery in Thailand on Thursday June 10, and having vowed to senior Monks ‘never to take drugs ever again’ upon registration, Peter refused to take even his third dose of medication, and has finally today rejected the sensitive and compassionate care offered by the Nuns and the Monks there.

“Despite insistent and concerned appeals from the Monastery’s officials and even his own mother, he demanded his passport and personal belongings and has fled to a hotel in Bangkok.

“Upon leaving the Monastery, Pete signed a declaration stating that: “Thamkrabok Monastery have done everything they could to help me, but I am just not strong enough for this treatment.”

This is almost certainly not the last we’ll here about this and we will bring you the latest as soon as we hear it.