Conrad Murray: 'Jackson alive at hospital'

Conrad Murray has claimed that Michael Jackson was still alive when he was taken to UCLA Medical Centre on the day of his death.

According to TMZ, the singer's former personal physician said that he was able to resuscitate Jackson's heart at the popstar's home and maintained his heart rhythm in the ambulance.

It is thought that doctors ran two EKGs on Jackson and that there was rhythmic heart activity during both times.

Murray's evaluation contradicts paramedics at the scene who wanted to take him to the morgue, not UCLA, because they believed that he was dead.

Jackson's dad Joe's lawyer Brian Oxman added that the weak pulse detected at UCLA was in reaction to resuscitation efforts.