Los Angeles: Michael Jackson's bodyguard Alberto Alvarez, who took the witness stand in the death trial of the singer today, claimed doctor Conrad Murray asked him to hide drug vials and an IV bag before calling 911.
The defence lawyers, however, attacked Alvarez's testimony, saying his account of the doctor's actions was physically impossible and influenced by offers of huge sums from tabloids.
Murray, Jackson's personal physician at the time of his death, is charged with causing the singer's death by accidentally giving him a fatal dose of the anaesthetic Propofol to help the singer fight his chronic insomnia.
Murray has pleaded not guilty in the case. He faces four years in jail if convicted.
Alvarez was the first person to reach Jackson's bedroom after his doctor called for help.
He claimed that before Murray asked him to dial the emergency, he ordered him to gather up drug bottles, vials and an IV bag of a "milky, white substance."
"I thought we were packing up for getting ready to go to the hospital," he claimed, adding that he followed the instructions because he believed the doctor had the best intentions.
Some 11 bottles of Propofol were discovered by the investigators stashed in a cabinet in another bedroom of Jackson's rented mansion. Jackson died on June 25, 2009.
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