Prince Jackson tells of frantic efforts to revive his father

Michael Jackson’s oldest son has described the frantic efforts to revive his father to a jury, a scene of tears and agony that ended a dozen idyllic years being raised by one of pop music’s superstars.

Michael Joseph “Prince” Jackson Jr told the panel in Los Angeles how he knew there was trouble in the singer’s rented mansion when he heard screaming upstairs and went into his father’s bedroom. His father was lying halfway off the bed, eyes rolled up into the back of his head as his physician tried CPR.

His sister Paris screamed for her father and Prince, now 16, told jurors that he was crying. On the ride to a hospital, he recounted how he tried to calm the fears of his sister and younger brother by telling them that angels were watching over their father and everything would be fine.