Pharmacy raid 'links Murray to propofol'

Michael Jackson's personal doctor has been linked to prescriptions for the surgical anaesthetic propofol implicated in the singer's death in June.

A police raid on Applied Pharmacy Services in Las Vegas found prescriptions for the drug written by Dr Conrad Murray and documents showing that he had legally purchased the compound there, The AP reports.

An unnamed law enforcement officer told the news agency that the records had been found after Los Angeles and Las Vegas police and Drug Enforcement Administration agents served a sealed search warrant on the premises on Tuesday morning.

Murray's attorney Edward Chernoff said through a spokeswoman that he had not seen the warrant and did not immediately comment on the matter.

Investigators are said to believe that Jackson died after being given a shot of painkiller pethidine following a dose of propofol earlier that day.