Rapper Cleared Of Killing Girlfriend Is Banned From The Roads

Court Again: Ceon Broughton

A rapper who was cleared on appeal of killing his girlfriend, who fatally overdosed at a music festival, has been banned from the roads after refusing to give a blood specimen to police.

Ceon Broughton, 33 - who performs as CeonRPG - was released from an eight-and-a-half year prison sentence when the Court of Appeal quashed his manslaughter conviction in 2020.

At Westminster Magistrates Court last month he pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen to City of London Police when driving his black 1.6 litre Daihatsu Sportrak in the Square Mile on June 5.

He also pleaded guilty on the day of his trial, after initially fighting the charge, to driving in Cornhill without a licence authorising him to drive the vehicle.

Broughton, of Island Centre Way, Enfield was fined £250, with £200 costs and ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge.

He was also disqualified from driving for sixteen months.

In 2019 Broughton was jailed following the death of Louella Fletcher-Michie, 24, the daughter of Holby City actor John Michie.

He had given her hallucinogenic Class A drug 2-CP at Dorset’s Festival in 2017.

She was found dead in woodland, 400 metres from the festival’s hospital tent in the early hours on September 11, the day she was due to turn twenty-five years-old.

Westminster Magistrates Court

Broughton recorded her “disturbed, agitated and then seriously ill,” the trial at Winchester Crown Court was told, where Broughton was also  convicted of supplying the Class A drug.

However, three Court of Appeal judges overturned the manslaughter conviction, ruling the prosecution failed to prove Louella could have lived if Broughton called for help.

A trial expert said she would have had a 90% chance of survival if given medical treatment even nearly five hours after taking the drug, but the judges ruled this was insufficient to meet the criminal standard of proof.

Broughton had received seven years for manslaughter, plus eighteen months for supplying the drug and that conviction remains on his record.

After he won his appeal Broughton’s lawyers released a statement which read: “Ceon remains devastated by her death.

“He has always wished that he could have done more to save her.

“He loved Louella and she him, but he knows that no words will ever be sufficient to convey his sense of responsibility for what happened or to begin to remove the pain that others have been caused.”