LABELS on fingerprint evidence seized from Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch were switched and some of it was handled without gloves, it emerged yesterday.

PORNOGRAPHY found on Michael Jackson’s computer is likely to be barred from his child molestation trial, it emerged yesterday.

PROSECUTORS in the Michael Jackson child molestation case asked the trial judge yesterday to schedule a hearing as early as next week on whether to admit evidence of alleged prior sexual offences by Jackson.

The judge in Michael Jackson’s child molestation trial tonight denied a defence request for a mistrial on the grounds that the jury has heard about the singer’s previous relationships with young boys.

A former housekeeper at Michael Jackson’s Neverland ranch told the singer’s child molestation trial today that the pop star had close friendships with several boys, aged 10 to 14, and that she saw children she believed to be intoxicated at the estate.

Michael Jackson may be ”on the precipice of bankruptcy,” owing $288m (€214m), prosecutors at his child molestation trial told a judge today.

Not a single witness saw Michael Jackson act inappropriately towards children, it was claimed today.

Michael Jackson imprisoned a child and his family at his ranch and forced them to make a video absolving him of sex claims after a television documentary linked the pop star to an obsession with young boys, a prosecutor said.

POP superstar Michael Jackson enticed a young boy, then imprisoned him and his family at his Neverland Ranch and forced them to make a video absolving him of molestation claims, a prosecutor said yesterday.