Blow to doctor's defence as coroner says Jackson did not give himself fatal dose

A coroner has dealt a major blow to the defence of Michael Jackson’s doctor, saying it was unreasonable to believe the pop star could have given himself a fatal dose of the powerful anaesthetic propofol.

Dr Christopher Rogers, who conducted the autopsy on Jackson, 50, told a Los Angeles jury it was more likely that Dr Conrad Murray overdosed the singer when he incorrectly estimated how much of the drug he was giving him to induce sleep to fight insomnia.