Kate Moss is likely to escape punishment for her drug taking sessions after finally facing police yesterday.

The model was questioned four months after she was pictured snorting 'line after line' of cocaine at a recording studio last autumn.

But according to police sources, she is unlikely even to be cautioned, leaving her without a criminal record and free to work wherever she wishes.

This is despite admitting 'full responsibility' for her actions in a statement about the affair last year.

Yesterday, Miss Moss, 32, ended her extraordinary 142- day exile from Britain to face a series of questions from detectives at Scotland Yard's Specialist Crime Operations Team headquarters near Buckingham Palace in central London.

Sources close to the investigation revealed that, acting on legal advice, she simply refused to say anything beyond confirming her name and address and handing over a short written statement.

Earlier, she had flown back to Britain in a private jet and landed at Farnborough airfield in Hampshire before being driven to the capital. Scotland Yard said she had attended the meeting 'voluntarily' in relation to an investigation into 'allegations of possible drug abuse'.

In a black cardigan, cream shawl and cropped trousers, she appeared calm as she arrived at police headquarters for questioning.

She was taken straight into a spacious interview room and questioned by two officers. Eighty minutes later she left through a back exit.

Last night she was back at her Cotswolds mansion where she replied: 'No comment' over the intercom when asked about the day's events.

A spokesman for Miss Moss's model agency, Storm, said: 'Kate Moss voluntarily reported to the police today to assist their investigation as she has always said she would when she returned to this country.'

Officially, 'inquiries continue' into the case but police sources said it was almost inconceivable that she would have to answer any more questions.

Miss Moss left the country and stayed in a U.S. drug rehabilitation clinic after the pictures were published last September.

She is now thought to be keen to settle in Los Angeles with her three-yearold daughter.