LONDON:

Troubled Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty has reportedly given Kate Moss the present of a dead mouse. According to UK newspaper the Daily Star, Doherty sent his former lover a brooch with a deceased rodent attached to it. The singer was apparently inspired by Courtney Love, who gave one of her friends the same gift.

Love visited Doherty at a rehab clinic in Wiltshire, where he is battling to get clean.

A source commented of the gift, “Some people might find it disgusting but it’s still art, if in its extreme sense. Nobody baulks when Damien Hirst puts a shark in formaldehyde and this is very similar. It’s become the latest outlandish fashion statement in Manhattan but Pete is trying to emphasise how he feels without Kate - defeated, crushed and broken, like the dead animal.”