Joe Jackson 'tried to save Michael'

Joe Jackson has said that he thinks he could have saved his son Michael, who passed away June.

He told German newspaper Bild that he had tried to intervene in his son's painkiller use shortly before he died.

Joe said: "I tried it. But in the last weeks before his death it wasn't possible to reach him. I stood in front of his house and the security [from the concert organisers] blocked my way.

"I even called the police. I did everything. I went as far as thinking, 'I'll go home. Take my guns and shoot my way to Michael'."

He added: "I said to my wife, 'Katherine, we have to get out the boy from there or he'll be dead in a week'. One week later he was dead.

"What worries me is that such a fundamentally good human being like Michael was exploited and has been ruined by people he has trusted and who he overwhelmed with gifts."