Boyfriend ‘filmed Holby City actor’s girl dying after giving her drugs’
Rapper in dock over festival death ‘could have saved her... but refused to ring 999’
THE daughter of a Holby City star was filmed by her boyfriend as she lay dying from drugs he had given her, a court heard yesterday.
Louella Fletcher- Michie, whose father John Michie plays surgeon Guy Self in the drama, died an hour before her 25th birthday.
At a festival in Dorset she spent the evening suffering from the horrific effects of a cocktail of 2C-P, ketamine and MDMA.
On- off boyfriend Ceon Broughton, 29, is accused of manslaughter – in failing to call for help for six hours ‘because he didn’t want to be arrested’.
Miss Fletcher-Michie is the first person known to have died from the increasingly popular designer drug 2C-P. She would have survived had Broughton, a rapper, not been ‘thinking only of himself’, Winchester Crown Court heard.
Miss Fletcher-Michie initially had a 90 per cent chance of recovery. But instead of phoning 999, Broughton stayed in a secluded wooded area of the Bestival event with her, documenting her decline and mental distress in disturbing videos and photos on his mobile phone.
Broughton, who recorded songs with the rap artist Skepta under the pseudonym CEON Compiled RPG, even created footage of his girlfriend’s corpse, prosecutors said.
The jury were shown 15 minutes of the disturbing images. At one point Broughton had recorded non-stop for 51 minutes. Some of the clips recorded Miss Fletcher-Michie screaming for her mother as the drugs took effect. At first she had said she was having an amazing time.
Broughton told police that at one point she was scratching herself with stinging nettles and trying to eat them. Some of the images showed her with facial wounds.
Her father and mother, former Hot Gossip dancer Carol Fletcher, made a desperate 130- mile dash to the festival, having been contacted at around 7pm. Miss Fletcher spoke to Broughton for 11 minutes, urging him to seek help.
William Mousley QC, prosecuting, said: ‘In the end Carol was so concerned she told her husband and they dropped everything to travel there from north London.’ But Miss FletcherMichie, a dancer and yoga teacher, died around an hour before the couple arrived.
Mr Mousley said Broughton failed to get help because he feared the legal consequences – having received a suspended jail term a month earlier. Miss Fletcher-Michie’s brother Sam also messaged Broughton and told him to get her help, the court heard.
In an opening speech for the defence Stephen Kamlish QC said Broughton ‘did what he could’ and that the pair liked to film each other taking drugs.
Jazz Jamieson, who had been friends with Miss FletcherMichie for over a decade, told the court: ‘She was in love with Ceon, she ... believed in him.’
Broughton, of Enfield, northeast London, has already admitted two counts of supplying class A drugs at the Glastonbury music festival in June 2017. He denies manslaughter and supplying 2C-P to Miss FletcherMichie at Bestival that September. The trial continues.
‘Thinking only of himself’