Bad blood between Jackson and prosecutor boils for decade

THE bad blood between pop star Michael Jackson and the prosecutor who has filed child molesting charges against him goes back more than a decade.

It even spawned a song in which Jackson calls Santa Barbara County district attorney Tom Sneddon a “cold man”.

Ten years ago Mr Sneddon tried to put together a child-molesting case against Jackson. But it fell apart when the singer’s accuser reportedly accepted a multimillion-dollar civil settlement and refused to testify in any criminal case.