RULING: Bobbi Kristina Brown JUDGE: Nick Gordon RESPONSIBLE For Her DEATH

A judge just ruled that, Nick Gordon, step-brother and boyfriend of the late Bobbi Kristina Brown, is responsible for her death. The ruling came after Gordon failed to show up in court for a mandatory appearance Friday.

The hearing, which had been scheduled for 9:30am at Atlanta’s Fulton County Superior Court, was to hear motions on the wrongful death suit filed by the estate of Bobbi Kristina against Gordon. Judge T. Jackson Bedford, who was presiding over the case, said of the Gordon ruling: ‘I do not like people thumbing their nose at the court.’

Gordon, who had elected to represent himself in the trial, was not in attendance however, leading the judge to declare that all allegations made by Bobbi Kristina’s estate in the case would be admitted through omission. A jury will now hear the case and decide on the damages owed by Gordon to the estate, who had been seeking $50million in their lawsuit. The news that Gordon had failed to appear for court was first reported by 11 Alive. Bobbi Kristina, the daughter of Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston, passed away at the age of 22 on July 26, 2015. She spent the final six months of her life in a medically induced coma after being found unresponsive in a bathtub at her Georgia home. h/t dailymail

‘In court today, we finally finished a long journey for justice for Bobbi Kristina Brown,’ R. David Ware, a lawyer for Brown’s conservator, said outside of court. ‘He is legally responsible for her death, and the only thing left for us to prove is the value of her life,’ R. David Ware, the lawyer for Bobbi Kristina’s estate, said outside the courthouse Friday morning. ‘And we intend to do that.’