How can you say you love someone then leave them to die in front of you?
Emotional Holby star comes face to face with drug-death daughter’s boyfriend at court
Holby City actor John Michie asked his daughter’s boyfriend how he could leave her ‘to die in front of you’ yesterday.
Mr Michie said it was a ‘mistake’ to trust 29-year- old Ceon broughton, who he once thought was a ‘good person’.
In a dramatic courtroom confrontation, he said the rapper could have saved 24-year-old louella Fletcher-Michie’s life by calling for help.
Mr Michie, who plays Guy Self in the bbC medical drama, said: ‘I don’t know how you could say you love someone who you left to die in front of you.’
He added: ‘I think louella loved Ceon, but I’m not sure he loved her. If I was in Ceon’s situation, I would have taken another human being – let alone my girlfriend who I was supposed to love – to a medical tent to save her life.’ Winchester Crown Court heard that Mr Michie, 62, was shocked to discover broughton allegedly failed to call for help after louella took a fatal drug dose at a music festival, even filming her after she died.
Glaring at the defendant across the courtroom, Mr Michie added: ‘I didn’t realise how in the six hours he was with her, he had not taken her to get help… how he had seen her in a very, very distressed state and how I believe he has even filmed her after she had died.’
When asked about being told of his daughter’s death as he arrived at bestival in September 2017, Mr Michie slumped forward, before regaining his composure.
‘I’ve since learnt he described her as a drama queen, which is hurtful,’ he added. broughton is accused of giving louella the designer drug 2C-P and of her manslaughter after failing to call for help for six hours because he was scared of being arrested.
Instead of phoning 999, the grime artist stayed hidden in a wooded area, documenting her decline in a disturbing series of videos which continued after death, prosecutors say.
The hospital area was 400 yards away but broughton made no attempt to take her there.
louella is the first person known to have died after using the increasingly popular drug, the court heard, and would have survived had broughton not been ‘thinking only of himself’.
Her parents made a desperate 130-mile drive to the festival after hearing Miss Fletcher- Michie screeching down the phone like a ‘wild animal’, having overdosed on a cocktail of party drugs.
by the time they arrived at the site on the lulworth Estate in Dorset, she was dead. yesterday, the Michie family gave agonising evidence against a man they had welcomed into their home. Carol Fletcher, 68, sobbed as she told jurors she ‘couldn’t believe’ it was her daughter on the phone. She said: ‘I only spoke to Ceon, louella was like a wild animal in the background. I couldn’t believe that was her and that was the last time I heard her voice.
‘I’ve never heard her before like that, I’ve never heard anyone before like that. That’s why we got in the car and drove down – because of her voice.
‘I could hear louella saying “give me my phone” and “I don’t trust you, I hate you”. I told him to get help and that’s what I assumed he would do. I asked what they had taken and he said, “We can see things other people can’t see.” ’
louella’s brother Sam said broughton told him on the phone ‘I bumped it up a bit’, referring to the drug dose he had given louella. He said he thought this could have meant a ‘bigger dose’ or ‘maybe something else alongside’ it. The judge ordered supporters of Miss Fletcher-Michie’s family not to scoff, as broughton’s lawyer suggested her brother could have misheard his client’s words due to the windy conditions.
Mr Fletcher-Michie said: ‘I urged him to get her to a medical tent as she was in serious trouble and he assured me he would.’
louella’s sister Daisy FletcherMichie said she now believed that broughton ‘did nothing to help her and put himself first’.
broughton, of Enfield, north london, has admitted two counts of supplying class A drugs. He denies supplying louella 2C-P and her manslaughter.
The trial continues.
‘The last time I heard her voice’