Katherine Jackson has spoken out after the man responsible for her son’s death was sentenced today.
Dr. Conrad Murray will spend four years in jail for the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson. The King of Pop died two years ago from acute Propofol intoxication at the hands of the physician.
But Jackson’s elderly mother said that Judge Michael Pastor did all he could in his sentencing but wishes Murray would stay behind bars for a longer period of time.
“Four years is not enough for someone’s life,” Katherine told waiting reporters. “It won’t bring him back but at least he got the maximum.”
“As Michael’s parents, we never imagined we would live to witness his passing,” attorney Brian Panish read from a family’s statement before sentencing. “There is no way to describe the loss of our beloved son, father and friend.”
Judge Michael Pastor gave Murray a stern talking to before delivery his sentence.
He spoke about the tape that the 58-year-old made of a clearly drugged Jackson whose speech was slurred and words incoherent.
“That tape recording was Dr. Murray’s insurance policy,” Judge Pastor said. “It was designed to record his patient surreptitiously at that patient’s most vulnerable point.”
The judge said the recording, taken on Murray’s phone, was a “horrific violation of trust,” and asked, “What value would be placed on that tape recording if it were to be released?”
Prosecutor David Waldren read a statement during the proceedings that was taken from Katherine shortly after Jackson died.
It described how the family’s world “collapsed” following the King of Pop’s death two years ago.
He described how Jackson’s daughter Paris was hysterically crying at the hospital.
“I want to go with you,” she told her father when she was told he was dead and not coming back.
The Jackson family watched the sentencing from a packed court room but did not hear Murray speak as he declined to address the court.
It is expected that the physician will file an appeal in the next 60 days as he continues to plead innocence.
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