Depicting Michael Jackson’s accuser as vengeful and angry over being evicted from the lush life of Neverland, the pop star’s lawyer loaded his cross-examination with suggestions that the boy made up a story of abuse to get even.

The teenager who says Michael Jackson molested him acknowledged under cross-examination today that he told an administrator at his school that the pop star “didn’t do anything to me”.

A woman in the US who left a homeless man she hit with her car to die a slow death while lodged in her broken windscreen has been jailed for 50 years.