A rapper jailed for killing a Holthrough City actor’s daughter with drugs has been overturned today for manslaughter through the Court of Appeal.
Ceon Broughton, 31, provided John Michie’s daughter Louella Fletcher-Michie, who is his girlfriend, the intoxicating 2-CP hallucinogenic at Bestival in Dorset.
But her conviction was overturned after her lawyer said the prosecutors failed to prove that she would have survived if she had ever obtained redress.
Miss Fletcher-Michie died after taking an improved form of Class A substance while Broughton recorded photographs on her cell phone for six hours.
She discovered her death in the woods at the festival site at Lulworth Castle on the morning of her 25th birthday on September 11, 2017.
Broughton, who raps under CEONRPG level, convicted in March 2019 of gross negligence involuntary manslaughter and imprisoned for 8 years and six months.
But today at the High Court in London, Lord Burnett overruled the conviction, saying: “In our view, this is one of the rare cases in which the entire jury had the skillful evidence to help them answer the question of causality.
Ceon Broughton pictured with her friend Louella Fletcher-Michie, who died in September 2017
“This skillful evidence is not in a position to identify a causal link to the criminal standard.
British justice is a joke
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