Actor confronts dead daughter’s boyfriend
JOHN MICHIE, the Holby City actor, locked eyes on his late daughter’s boyfriend in court yesterday as he asked how anyone could claim to love someone they left to die.
The 62-year-old broke down as he was asked to recall the night Louella Fletcher-michie, the youngest of his three children, died at Bestival music festival just an hour before her 25th birthday.
She fell ill after allegedly being given a “bumped-up” dose of the Class A party drug 2C-P by her boyfriend, Ceon Broughton, a rapper, who is accused of failing to seek medical help as she died.
Mr Broughton is said to have called her a “drama queen” and filmed her on his mobile phone as she hallucinated and repeatedly called for her mother.
Mr Michie described how he and his wife Carol Fletcher-michie, 68, made a 130-mile drive from their north London home to the festival site after hearing their daughter screech down the phone like a “wild animal”.
He told the jury at Winchester Crown Court that he thought Miss Fletchermichie had loved Mr Broughton, 29, whom he refused to blame in the immediate aftermath of her death.
“But what I didn’t realise was how, in the six hours he was with her, he had not taken her to get help,” he said. Turning to stare at Mr Broughton, he continued: “I think Louella loved Ceon, but I’m not sure he loved her. I don’t know how you can say you love someone who you left to die in front of you.”
The court has heard there was a medical tent 400 yards away but prosecutors claim Mr Broughton did not seek help because he had previously received a suspended prison sentence and was worried about being arrested.
Mr Broughton, from Enfield, London, denies manslaughter and supplying a Class A drug. The trial continues.