John Michie outside court yesterday (Image: Solent News & Photo Agency)
When quizzed by police about Louella's death, Ceon Broughton, 29, denied giving her the drugs and claimed he had not taken anything either at the Bestival music festival, in Dorset, in September 2017. The rapper said he would have carried Louella, 24, to a medical tent 400 yards away, but claimed Mr Michie, 62, and wife Carol, 68, told him on the phone to get help from someone in a "high-vis" jacket.
Jurors heard Broughton was serving a suspended sentence, which prosecutors allege is why he did not help his dying girlfriend.
During his first police interview, carried out at Poole police station the day after Louella died after taking the drug 2C-P, Broughton claimed she had bought the drugs.
He told officers: "She bought LSD or something. We was just having fun. She was tripping and then she said she had acid.
"She was fine at first, then it kind of spiralled. I called her mum and she told me to get to someone
