Court told of Jackson 'dependency'

In his own words, Dr Conrad Murray described how he spent months trying to shepherd Michael Jackson through a raging case of insomnia, giving him nightly infusions of an anaesthetic until realising that the singer was becoming addicted.

Murray’s account, in an interview with police that was played publicly for the first time yesterday, was so detailed and graphic that Jackson’s sister, Rebbie, arose and rushed from the courtroom during the description of the singer’s death scene.