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Murray, who was with Jackson during his final moments, was questioned on Saturday by investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for three hours to explain his actions. However, his spokeswoman, Miranda Sevcik, told US media that Murray said he was not a suspect.

Dr. Tim Gopeesingh, who knew Dr. Conrad Murray said, "I saw on all the international media that his competence has never been questioned and from what I saw he had some financial problems, and many doctors do have financial problems, but his competence as a cardiologist remains unquestionable." Another Trinidadian doctor as well as a director of a medical clinic, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they also had interactions with Murray professionally and vouched for his competence.

Murray has been cleared by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) of any wrongdoing in the death of pop star, Michael Jackson. A second police interview with Murray, who was caring for Jackson the day he died, yielded no information suggesting the physician committed a crime, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday.

Murray, who rode in the ambulance from Jackson’s home to a hospital after the singer had suffered cardiac arrest on Thursday, helped police “identify the circumstance around the death...and clarified some inconsistencies,” said the statement from the law firm Stradely, Chernoff & Alford. The second meeting between police and Murray, who has offices in Houston and Las Vegas, lasted three hours.

Questions have centred on what brought on his heart failure. Jackson had not performed in years, but was rehearsing for a series of sold-out, comeback concerts in London starting in July. He was said to be in good health and had passed a physical examination before beginning rehearsals.

But according to media reports, Jackson was injected with narcotic painkiller, Demerol, before he went into cardiac arrest, and Murray was trying to revive him when paramedics arrived. The official autopsy failed to determine what killed the singer, pending toxicology tests that could take four to six weeks and might reveal the presence of any drugs in his system.