'No witnesses to Jackson molestation allegations'

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

Only the 15-year-old alleged victim and his brother have testified that the singer molested them, according to new reports.

But court documents, as seen by thesmokinggun.com website, reveal that several people gave evidence concerning the alleged conspiracy to silence, extort, and falsely imprison the accuser and his family.

Jackson, 46, denies molesting the then 13-year-old boy, plying him with alcohol and conspiring to hold him and his family captive.

A grand jury heard evidence from some 41 witnesses last year before concluding that the case should go to trial.

Brian Barron, a Californian policeman who worked as a part-time security guard at Neverland, testified that he had never seen Jackson act inappropriately with young boys.

But according to the documents he claims to have seen a note ordering the accuser not be allowed to leave the 2,800-acre property.

The long-time house manager of the ranch allegedly claimed the accuser’s family was held against its will and that the boy and his brother, then 11, slept almost every night with Jackson in the singer’s bedroom.

Jesus Salas told jurors that the accuser’s mother was crying and distraught during one stay at Neverland. He reportedly said that on orders of Jackson’s management she was not allowed to leave the California property.

Asked by prosecutor Gordon Auchincloss: “Did it appear to you, based on everything you saw that (family members) were being held against their will ?” Salas allegedly answered: “I would say yes.”

Bodyguard Christopher Carter said he minded Jackson “pretty much 24 hours a day” between 2002 and 2003.

He is said to have witnessed the singer entertaining the accuser, his brother and three other children in his office.

The group watched movies as they sat around a table filled with glasses of wine, which Jackson called Jesus “Juice”, he said.

Carter reportedly told jurors he once caught the alleged victim drunk, and when he confronted him was told: “Michael said if I can handle it, it’s okay. It’s part of being a man.”

He also reported that Jackson secretly monitored telephone calls made by Neverland visitors and once walked into the singer’s bedroom when “one of the kids” was eavesdropping on a call.

Both the accuser and his brother have told detectives the listening device was used to monitor their mother’s phone calls during the month-long period the family was held at Neverland in 2003.

But Carter too, said he had never seen Jackson inappropriately touch anyone.

Flight attendants allegedly testified that Jackson asked for wine to be served in Coke cans, just as his accuser claims to have been given alcohol.

The Smoking Gun website said the grand jury had also been presented with surveillance videos and a tape of a secretly recorded telephone conversation. It claimed to have reviewed sealed police and court records, including the 1,903-page transcript from last year’s grand jury proceedings.

Meanwhile, jury selection in the case at the Santa Maria court has been adjourned until next Tuesday while Jackson recovers from an illness.