Michael Jackson’s doctor waited for up to 21 minutes before raising the alarm after the pop star stopped breathing, a court heard today.
Dr Conrad Murray called the singer’s security team and ordered a guard to pile drugs and other medical paraphernalia into his bag before calling emergency services, it was claimed.
Jackson’s personal doctor is accused of being responsible for his death and is facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter.
A preliminary hearing to decide if he should face a full trial began in Los Angeles yesterday, as prosecutors outlined the case against him.
The court heard he had given the king of pop a cocktail of sleeping drugs and a ‘powerful anaesthetic’ in the hours before he stopped breathing.
Prosecutors claim Murray, 57, was then distracted by a phone call and said his later attempts at resuscitating Jackson were ‘ineffectual’.
District attorney David Walgren told the court: ‘There are a number of actions displayed by Dr Murray that show an extreme deviation from the standard of care.’
Mr Walgren said Murray, who was paid £100,000-a-month to treat the king of pop, had failed to tell paramedics or hospital doctors that he had given Jackson an intravenous drip containing propofol, an surgical anaesthetic.
Jackson’s sister LaToya and brother Jermaine watched from the public gallery with their mother Katherine as Mr Walgren described the 50-year-old’s final hours in June 2009.
The star had been rehearsing for a worldwide tour, This Is It, which was due to begin in London’s O2 arena later that year. He rehearsed late into the night and did not return to his mansion until 1am on June 25.
The court heard Murray treated him in his bedroom, and gave him a valium pill at 1.30am, followed by an intravenous drip containing the sedative lorazepam. He administered more sedatives at 3am and 7.30am, and just before 11am he put Jackson on a drip containing propofol
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