No-one could have saved star’s daughter, court told

HOLBY City actor John Michie’s daughter took such a large dose of the party drug 2C-P before her death that no one could have saved her, it was claimed today.

Sobs were heard from the public gallery where Mr Michie, 62, and his family watched as barrister Stephen Kamlish QC told jurors she had taken a staggering 32 milligrams of the substance.

Mr Kamlish claimed Louella Fletcher-michie, 24, took almost six times the accepted normal six milligram dose of the synthetic drug, causing a fatal overdose.

The trial has heard the creator of 2C-P, chemist Alexander Shulgin, had tested a dose of 16 milligrams, describing it as a “physical disaster not to be repeated”.

Expert forensic toxicologist Emma Pagden previously told jurors one “cannot say” how large a dose someone would have taken from their post mortem results.

However, Mr Kamlish, representing her rapper boyfriend Ceon Broughton, who is accused of Ms Fletcher-michie’s manslaughter, said he calculated she had taken as much as 32 mgs.

The barrister said doctors would have needed to pump her stomach almost immediately after she took 2C-P at Bestival music festival to stop it getting into her blood.

As they would have been unable to do so in time, with her and 30-yearold Mr Broughton in woodland just off the festival site, he said she could not have been saved and so his client could “not be held responsible” for her death.

Prosecutors allege the rapper gave dancer and yoga teacher Ms Fletchermichie a “bumped up” dose of the class A substance on September 10, 2017, filmed her as she had a “bad trip” and did nothing to save her.

The court has seen harrowing footage of Ms Fletcher-michie screaming, hitting herself and even heard a clip of her being urged to stop trying to eat thorns.

But Mr Kamlish claimed Broughton, who did not give evidence, “would have done more if he thought it was the right thing to do” and is so upset by Ms Fletchermichie’s death he has “cried quietly throughout the trial”.

Giving his closing speech yesterday at Winchester Crown Court, Mr Kamlish told jurors this was a “unique” charge, which “makes a criminal” of someone who did not want a person to die.

The barrister claimed that the 0.032mg of 2C-P found in Ms Fletcher-michie’s blood during a post-mortem indicated she would have taken five to six times the normal dose of the drug.

Mr Broughton, of Enfield, London, denies manslaughter and supplying class A drugs. The trial continues.