Look at this, Jacko relegated to story number four! In Friday's
Jacko trial proceedings the court room were shown a video in which the singer's accuser, Gavin Arvizo, says Jackson is a father figure to him. The video shows Gavin saying "He treats me like he's my father", while his mother, Janet, is seen denouncing people who accuse the pop star of acting inappropriately with children, saying that people who made those allegations were "missing out on something very beautiful that they have tainted". Gavin's brother Star, meanwhile, says "He actually seemed more fatherly than like our biological father."
As previously reported, the video was filmed shortly after the first screening of Martin Bashir's now legendary Michael Jackson documentary. The prosecution claim the family were forced into making the recording while they were held of Jacko's Neverland ranch.
After the little video screening, Gavin's older sister Davellin returned to the witness stand. She told the court room how she had seen
Jackson "constantly hugging and kissing" her brother
"on the cheek or the head", adding that after spending time with the singer her brother "didn't want to be hugged, he didn't want to be kissed".
Jacko's defence scored some points when questioning Davellin - the sister admitted that she had lied about certain things when questioned by the authorities about the allegations, and also admitted that when she said she saw Jackson and her brothers drinking wine together she did not actually know for certain what was actually being drunk - she assumed it was wine because they were in he wine cellar at the time.
The case continues. Oh joy.