Jackson doctor 'scooped up painkiller vials'

A third witness described frantic efforts by the doctor charged over Michael Jackson’s death to gather medication from the floor of the bedroom where the singer died after receiving intravenous doses of a powerful anaesthetic.

Paramedic Martin Blount told a preliminary court hearing in Los Angeles that Dr Conrad Murray scooped up three vials of the painkiller lidocaine moments after the doctor said he had not given the superstar any medication.