Rapper who was cleared of killing girlfriend at Bestival is banned from driving after dodging police blood check

A RAPPER who was cleared on appeal of killing his girlfriend 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.

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The rapper was previously jailed following the death of his girlfriend Louella Fletcher-Michie at a music festival[/caption]

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Broughton had his conviction for the manslaughter of his girlfriend Louella overturned by the Court of Appeal[/caption]

The rapper has now been banned from the road after he pleaded guilty last month at Westminster Magistrates Court to failing to provide a specimen to police 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, he was locked up for filming girlfriend Louella Fletcher-Michie, the daughter of Holy City actor John Michie, as she fatally overdosed at music festival Bestival in 2017.

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

He had supplied her with Class A drug 2-CP – and later released a song appearing to reference his former-girlfriend’s death.

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 later 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.”