Frail Jacko late for court again

A feeble-looking Michael Jackson arrived late again to his child abuse trial, but the judge took no apparent action – and the star sat through testimony from a psychologist who said few child sex abuse allegations turned out to be false.

Jackson, who is said to have back problems, trembled and wept yesterday at the defence table in Santa Maria, California, as lawyers and a doctor who came to court in hospital scrubs conferred in chambers with Judge Rodney Melville.