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Jonathan “Headlock” Jeannevol, Pete Doherty’s former minder, has spoken for the first time since a documentary uncovered evidence that suggests Mark Blanco was murdered
Pete Doherty should tell all about the death of an actor who fell from a balcony while partying with him, the rocker’s former minder has said.
Jonathan “Headlock” Jeannevol spoke for the first time since a Channel 4 documentary uncovered evidence that suggests Mark Blanco was murdered.
Mark, 30, fell from a block of flats after a run-in with the Libertines star in December 2006 and the case has never been resolved. CCTV shows Doherty stepping over Mark and fleeing with Jeannevol.
Speaking outside his home in East London, Jeannevol, 46, said when asked what happened to Mark: “Go and ask Pete.”
He later told us: “If I had done it I would be in prison, someone would be in prison if they had done it. We just saw that he [Mark] had fallen and Pete ran and I followed him because that was my job, to look after Pete.”
Mark’s mum Sheila said: “Jeannevol’s response is very significant… Doherty has got to come up with the truth.”
Jeannevol was speaking a short distance from the “crack den” flat where Mark died in December 2006. An inquest the following year heard the ex-minder had confessed to police that he pushed Mark off but retracted it, saying he was high on cocaine when he made it, and was released without charge.
Pete has previously denied any knowledge of how Mark died but admitted running away from the scene to avoid a run-in with the police over drug possession.
The Met said: “We have no update on the investigation at this time.”
