involuntary manslaughter
. Here's Alastair Leithead.
Doctor Conrad Murray listened intently as the prosecution delivered a final summary of its case against him to the jury. Michael Jackson's doctor has been painted as a man who acted with criminal negligence that Doctor Murray was out of the room when Jackson stopped breathing, did not call for help quickly enough. The defence claims Michael Jackson injected himself with a fatal dose of the drug while Doctor Murray was out of the room. Every step of the trial has been broadcast live. Doctor Murray
faces up to
four years in prison if convicted.
A fight between rival gangs in a prison in Venezuela has left eight people dead. Several police officers were taken hostage during the violence in the jail, and the authorities are trying to negotiate their release. Venezuela's overcrowded prisons have been the scene of repeated uprisings and gang violence.
And finally, a cleaning woman at a German art gallery has caused
irreparable
damage to a valuable artwork by one of Germany's most celebrated modern sculptors by
polishing off
what she believed to be an
unsightly
stain on the work. Steve Evans reports.
Martin Kippenberger, who died in 1997, was according to his
obituary
in the New York Times one of the most talented German artists of his generation. The city of Dortmund then considered itself fortunate to have one of his installations called When It Starts Dripping From the Ceiling. The work consisted of a tower of wooden slats under which a rubber trough was placed with a thin beige layer of paint representing dried rainwater. Not appreciating the work properly, a cleaner assumed the stain needed to be cleaned, so she scrubbed it till it gleamed.