No winners, says Holby City star as rapper found guilty of daughter’s death
JOHN MICHIE, the Holby City actor, said there were “no winners” yesterday, as a musician was convicted of killing his daughter by giving her a “bumped up” dose of a recreational drug.
Ceon Broughton was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter after he failed to get help for Louella Fletcher-michie, 24, when she became unwell at the Bestival music event.
Winchester Crown Court had heard how Broughton filmed Miss Fletchermichie as she lay dying from a drug overdose rather than going to a nearby medical tent to get help.
But, an ex-girlfriend has now revealed how the 29-year-old had a morbid fascination with images of death and once took a photograph of her as she lay bleeding from a head wound following a druginduced fall.
Broughton also filmed another girl on his mobile phone as he plied her with drugs, encouraging her to take ever larger quantities.
These details come as Broughton faces a lengthy prison sentence for ignoring Miss Fletchermichie’s plight as she died on what would have been her 25th birthday.
The defendant showed no emotion as the verdicts were read out in court, but asked his lawyer to text his mother to let her know.
Speaking after the verdict, Mr Michie said: “Regardless of the outcome of this harrowing trial, there were never going to be any winners.
“We began our life sentence on what would have been Louella’s 25th birth- day. Ceon’s life sentence is knowing he didn’t help Louella to live.”
It can now be reported that towards the end of the trial, Mr Michie confronted the defendant in a court waiting area and called him “evil”. Broughton was seen to lose his temper and damaged a table and a water cooler. It can also be revealed how one of Broughton’s ex-girlfriends contacted the court midway through the trial, alerting them to the danger she believed he posed.
Paulina Aberg wrote to prosecutor William Mousley QC from her home in Sweden, saying that she had been drugged and then photographed by Broughton.
Details of her revelations can only now be reported as Mr Justice Goose, the judge, ruled that the evidence was inadmissible.
During legal argument, it was heard Broughton had given Miss Aberg a “whole load of drugs”, causing her to fall and crack her head, which Broughton was said to have taken a picture of. The alleged incident was understood to have taken place just weeks before the tragic events at Bestival. Police also found recordings on Broughton’s phone from an incident in April 2017 when he had plied a girl with drugs during a trip to Toronto in Canada. In one clip, he was seen urging a female to take more drugs. Broughton’s lawyer, Stephen Kamlish QC, successfully argued that the evidence was prejudicial and therefore should not be put before the jury. Broughton will be sentenced today.