Experts repeatedly told jurors that Michael Jackson’s doctor acted with “gross negligence” throughout his treatment of the pop star as prosecutors neared the end of their involuntary manslaughter case against the physician.

Lawyers representing Michael Jackson’s doctor have abandoned the defence theory that the pop megastar swallowed the drug that killed him.

Lawyers for the doctor charged over Michael Jackson’s death have dropped their claim that the pop star swallowed a fatal dose of the anaesthetic propofol while his physician was not looking.