Ceon Broughton had a history of giving women drugs and filming them, as well as an interest in images of death, prosecutors believe. On Thursday Broughton, 30, was found guilty of manslaughter after giving his girlfriend, Louella Fletcher-Michie, a fatal dose of drugs at the Bestival music festival in September 2017. Kamlish argued the evidence might make the jury think Broughton “took an unhealthy pleasure in Louella’s suffering”, which had “never” been the case. “This has never been the case of the defendant forcing drugs on anyone, they go off to take drugs together because she wants to,” he said. The judge added there was “no doubt the deceased wanted to take drugs” at Bestival and Broughton had already admitted supplying drugs to her in June 2017.

Source: The Guardian February 28, 2019 23:03 UTC