Doherty not a suspect in party death

updated 8:08 p.m. ET Dec. 10, 2006

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

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