HOLLYWOOD - GRIEF turned into anger on Saturday for fans of Michael Jackson who bitterly accused his doctors - and society at large - for cutting short the King of Pop's tragic life.

Don't think it was just a heart attack< DEREK Sheridan, 45, who grew up on Jackson songs and has taught his family to dance the star's moves, feared that the true circumstances behind Jackson's death may never be known. 'This is tragic. I had been hoping that Michael Jackson would still be dancing like that when he was 70 years old,' Sheridan said. ... more

Two days after one of history's best-selling artists collapsed and died at his rented Beverly Hills mansion, streams of fans kept offering flowers and teddy bears outside his home and on his star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

'He shouldn't have died so young. It's so sad. I'm just hysterical,' said Deborah Canton as she sobbed inconsolably near the late 50-year-old pop singer's star.

Ms Canton, 46, grew up in Jackson's home state of Indiana and listened to him since he was a child star in the Jackson 5. She blamed society for treating him cruelly.

'The guy would never hurt a fly but all of these evil people would do everything to destroy him just to get his money,' she said. 'I don't think he wanted to live anymore.' She pointed to the accusations of pedophilia, on which Jackson was acquitted, and sharply criticised the doctors who surrounded the pop star.

'The doctors were greedy bastards. I do hold them responsible,' she said.

Los Angeles police are hoping to question the singer's doctor, identified as Conrad Murray, a second time late on Saturday. Dr Murray is reported to have injected Jackson with the powerful painkiller Demerol shortly before his death.

'I don't know whether there was a conspiracy, but to be perfectly honest, it was really shady,' said Megan Foley, 25, who left a handwritten sign on Jackson's star saying, 'You will be missed.' 'I'm a nurse myself. What physician wouldn't know how to perform CPR?' she said.

In an emergency call released by the Los Angeles Fire Department, a member of Jackson's entourage is heard pleading for help, saying the doctor's attempts to revive him had failed.

Los Angeles Coroner's Office said preliminary investigation showed no evidence of 'external trauma or foul play' on Jackson's body. But friends and associates of Jackson have voiced anger over the role of advisers and physicians that surrounded the star.

Jackson suffered an apparent cardiac arrest, but the coroners said they were performing exhaustive toxicology tests that would take six to eight weeks to complete. -- AFP