Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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THE proportion of women attending routine NHS breast cancer screening slumped to 70.5% in 2018.
Some 750,000 aged 50 to 70 invited in England did not go within six months, NHS Digital data showed.
It compared with 71.1% in 2017 and charity bosses said it was “worrying”. HOLBY City actor John Michie has told of his heartache at losing his daughter after her drug dealer boyfriend was found guilty of manslaughter yesterday.
Louella Fletcher-michie died at the Bestival music festival on the eve of her 25th birthday after Ceon Broughton gave her the Class A drug 2-CP.
John, 62, said outside court where rapper Broughton was convicted yesterday: “Regardless of the outcome of this harrowing trial, there are never going to be any winners. Our life sentence began on what would have been Louella’s 25th birthday.
“Ceon’s life sentence is knowing he did not help Louella to live.”
Broughton, 30, failed to get help after she collapsed and even filmed as she lay dying and “screaming like an animal” in woods near the Dorset festival in 2017.
It can now be revealed Broughton, who narrowly avoided jail for carrying a knife a month before Louella’s death, had a fascination with morbid images and liked to film women taking drugs.
He once filmed another girlfriend as she bled from a wound on her head.
HEARTBROKEN
It can also now be reported that he nearly came to blows with Louella’s heartbroken father when they bumped into each other during a break in proceedings at Winchester crown court.
Angry Broughton smashed up a table, screamed and hit himself after Mr Michie told him he was “evil”.
Broughton then went on to attack a water cooler nearby before two policemen restrained him, as he shouted: “Get off me, bruv.”
During the trial an often emotional Mr Michie was seen in the public gallery with his wife Carol and children Sam and Penny, along with the defendant’s father, Dave. After the verdict was delivered yesterday Mr Michie turned to him and said: “You have my sympathy”, while Carol left the court in tears.
Broughton himself showed little emotion, flippantly telling his lawyer: “Text my mum.”
The trial was shown shocking footage filmed on Broughton’s phone of Louella’s final moments. Jurors heard how, after giving her the drug, he filmed her on his phone as she hallucinated instead of taking her just 87 yards to get help as she deteriorated. He then recorded images of her corpse. Experts said Louella initially had a 90% chance of recovery. But Broughton avoided calling 999 or getting help, despite pleas from her family when he called them, because he “did not want to be