Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

Evil killer gave drugs to other girls & filmed their torment

Grisly fixation revealed as dealer found guilty

- adam.aspinall@mirror.co.uk @Mirrorasp

arrested” while on a suspended term. Prosecutor­s had sought to submit further evidence that they alleged revealed Broughton’s “pattern of behaviour”. In the jury’s absence, William Mousley QC said two video clips were found on Broughton’s phone showing him giving drugs to a woman.

The clips, taken in Toronto, Canada, in April 2017, showed an unnamed woman being offered a substance on a spoon by Broughton which she sniffed. In one clip Broughton said: “No, no, you have to do more.” The woman snorted from the spoon again. The court also heard a woman named Paulina Aberg, who lives in Sweden, claimed Broughton photograph­ed her after she hit her head taking drugs.

Aberg spoke to police and prosecutor­s, but was not allowed to tell her story to the court.

Mr Mousley said: “The defendant gave... a whole lot of drugs to a girlfriend as a result of which she suffered a bad reaction, falling and hurting herself.”

He said she found an image of her on Broughton’s phone, which she deleted. He added: “She also says she was aware that the defendant had images of people suffering, including suffering death, on his phone in which he appeared to have some interest.”

Mr Mousley said the potential evidence was “capable of establishi­ng a pattern of behaviour”.

But Broughton’s lawyer, Stephen Kamlish QC, said Ms Aberg’s claims about her fall were “not true” and that the evidence might make the jury think Broughton “took an unhealthy pleasure in Louella’s suffering”, which had “never” been the case.

Mr Justice Goose said the video clips “offer little, if anything to assist the jury” because the type and supply of the drug being offered was unclear.

The judge said there was “no doubt the deceased wanted to take drugs” at Bestival, and Broughton had already admitted supplying drugs to her. Senior investigat­ing officer Neil Devoto, of Dorset Police, said outside court any “prudent and reasonable” person would have realised Louella was in danger and that Broughton just wanted to save himself.

He added: “He didn’t help and he didn’t act and he didn’t get care for her. This is despite numerous requests and demands from her family and friends to get her to a medical tent, to get her some form of medical assistance.

“You may ask yourself why did he carry out that, why did he not get help.

“We know that he was on a suspended prison sentence. We believe that he wanted to save himself.”

Broughton of Enfield, North London, will be sentenced today.

He didn’t help and he didn’t act and he didn’t get care for her. He wanted to save himself NEIL DEVOTO OF DORSET POLICE ON BROUGHTON’S INACTION AS SHE DIED

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TRAGIC LOSS Louella died aged 24 at Bestival COUPLE Rapper Broughton with Louella MUGSHOT Broughton has been found guilty

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