The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office on Friday ruled out foul play in the death of Michael Jackson but warned it could be up to six weeks before toxicology results are completed, which would shed light on how the singer died,

Reports earlier in the day had centred around Jackson’s personal doctor, who had prescribed the singer several painkilling drugs and who had apparently disappeared. But Dr Conrad Murray is now preparing to help police with their inquiries into the singer’s death.