'Call from ambulance transporting Michael Jackson contradicts' claims of Dr Conrad Murray
By Matt Fortune
Last updated at 2:04 AM on 24th February 2010
Potential new evidence has to come to light which appears to reveal the moment Michael Jackson's death was first announced last June.
A tape recording is believed to feature a Los Angeles Fire Department medical worker calling the UCLA hospital.
It could be used in Dr Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial later this year as it contradicts his claims the star was still warm and had a pulse when he found Jackson and put him in the ambulance.
A voice on the tape, obtained by The Sun newspaper, says: 'Patient is Michael Jackson, the pop star singer. No pulse, no breathing. Unresponsive. Tried to resuscitate him. Unsuccessful.
The King is dead: Jackson's body is loaded into a van to be taken to the Los Angeles County Coroner's office (above). His doctor, Conrad Murray, faces trial over the singer's death later this year
'We've done everything we can. We should be there in five minutes. It doesn't look good. It doesn't look good.'
The tape emerged on an ambulance workers' web forum but has yet to be confirmed as genuine.
An LAFD spokesman said: 'I couldn't confirm that is one of our workers. It could be. They refer to 'pop star Michael Jackson' but it is not our practice to name names.'
Dr Murray was Jackson's personal doctor at the time of his death. The 56-year-old originally told police he administered a cocktail of drugs including powerful sedative Propofol, at 10.50am.
After leaving the room for two minutes he returned to find the star's condition deteriorating, leading Murray to begin CPR. However, the 911 call to the emergency services was not made until an hour and half later at 12.21pm.
Last week it emerged Dr Murray rang another patient at 11.54am with test results.
Jackson was officially pronounced dead 2.26pm.
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