Police Question Doherty on Party Death

British singer Pete Doherty waits before his court case involving drug possession charges at Thames Magistrates Court, in east London in this Dec. 4, 2006 file photo. Police are now questioning Doherty in the case of a man who was injured at a Dec. 3, 2006 party and lated died. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File) (Lefteris Pitarakis - AP)

LONDON -- The family of a man who fell to his death at a party attended by troubled singer Pete Doherty have called for a full police investigation into the incident. Actor Matt Blanco, 30, was found injured outside an east London apartment building where he had attended a party on Dec. 3 and died later in hospital.

Doherty and others at the party have been interviewed by police, who reportedly do not consider the singer a suspect. They have said they believe Blanco fell from a balcony.

Blanco's sister, Emma, said the family wanted to know why Doherty and others reportedly left the scene before police arrived.

"We're finding it very difficult to do any grieving as we're so busy trying to find out the truth," she was quoted as saying by The Independent on Sunday newspaper.

"We want to know what happened that night. This is not about us assigning blame on a pseudo-celebrity. We just want the truth."

The apartment where the party took place belonged to Paul Roundhill, a literary editor and friend of Doherty. Friends said Blanco had been celebrating gaining a role in a production of Dario Fo's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," in which the title character plunges to his death from a police station.

Roundhill has said Blanco was behaving rambunctiously and was eventually ejected from the party. Soon after, he was found injured on the pavement outside.

Doherty, the lead singer of "Babyshambles" and on-off boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, has had a series of well-publicized run-ins with police over his drug use. Last week he was fined and banned from driving for four months for possessing drugs including heroin and crack cocaine.

Doherty's drug habit gained international attention after a British tabloid printed pictures last year of Moss allegedly using cocaine at a music studio where Doherty and his band were recording. Moss was not charged.