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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Graeme Thomson

The 10: Rock's Most Unimpressive Cons

News broke this week that R'n'B star Akon isn't quite the criminal mastermind he's always claimed to be - alas, it was just too late to include him in this Sunday's OMM 10. So who did make the list...?

Here they are:

1. Pete Doherty Twenty-seven strikes and you're out. Mr Shambles received 14 weeks for 'breach of time-keeping, missing appointments with probation officers and using different drugs' this month. Fair cop.

2. Johnny Cash Forget all that punchin' and pill-poppin', they finally got big bad John for 'illegally picking flowers' in Starkville, Mississippi in 1965.

3. Axl Rose Once pleaded guilty to a charge of disturbing the peace after shaking his fist at an airport supervisor who wanted to look at his bags.

4. Grooverider The Radio 1 DJ was given a four-year jail term in Dubai courtesy of the 2.16 grams of cannabis found in his trousers.

5. Chrissie Hynde Spent a night in chokey for 'damaging leather apparel' at a Gap store in New York, protesting against the torture of cows in India and China.

6. Ian Brown Bye Bye Badman. Served four months in Strangeways after threatening a stewardess with plastic cutlery and offering to cut off her hands.

7. Lil' Kim Lying under oath about two friends' involvement in a Manhattan shooting, Kim was jailed for a year in 2005 for conspiracy and perjury.

8. Glen Campbell In the county lock-up on drink driving and hit and run charges, the country star kneed a police sergeant in the thigh - a charge of aggravated assault was dropped in a plea bargain. He served 10 days.

9. Steve Strange The ex-Visage star got three months (suspended) in 2000 for stealing a Teletubby in Bridgend. Eh-oh.

10. Wayne Fontana Having torched a bailiff's car, the Mindbender appeared in court as the Lady of Justice, with sword, scales, crown and cape. Got 11 months.

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