Jurors in the Michael Jackson child abuse trial will have to decide whether his teenage accuser is a credible witness after viewing the boy’s videotaped testimony.

The judge in the Michael Jackson child abuse trial kept a graphic piece of evidence out of the sight of jurors when he barred prosecutors yesterday from showing photographs of the pop star’s genitals.

The defence rested in the Michael Jackson child abuse trial without putting the pop star on the stand, wrapping up after a three-week effort to portray the accuser and his mother as shakedown artists.

News organisations covering the Michael Jackson child abuse trial are seeking an end to the secrecy surrounding key aspects of the case, including the grand jury indictment describing the pop singer’s alleged crimes.