Pete Doherty in clear over party death fall

The Crown Prosecution Service yesterday told relatives there was “insufficient evidence” to bring any charges over the actor’s death in 2006.

The family, which has vowed to launch private proceedings, was told by prosecutors that it could not be established that a criminal act had taken place.

Mr Blanco was involved in a confrontation with Doherty, the star’s bodyguard Johnny Jeannevol and Paul Roundhill at a party shortly before his death, investigations showed. But the three denied any wrongdoing.

The family, which said it had evidence that Mr Blanco was unlawfully killed, launched a lengthy campaign for justice after two police reports and an inquest failed to establish exactly what triggered his fall from a balcony in Whitechapel, east London.

But in a meeting at the CPS’s central London headquarters yesterday, Jenny Hopkins, head of the organisation’s complex casework, said: “None of the evidence is capable of establishing to the required standard that Mr Blanco was thrown or pushed from the balcony or that any other individual was present at the time he fell.”