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THE lad at the centre of the Michael Jackson child abuse trial yesterday admitted telling his head teacher the star had NEVER touched him.

The cancer victim, 15, said he had twice assured Jeffrey Alpert he had not been molested by the singer.

Jacko’s lawyer Thomas Mesereau told the jury the boy had chatted with Mr Alpert, head of his Los Angeles school, shortly after his final visit to the singer’s Neverland ranch.

The lawyer then turned to the lad and asked: “He said, ‘Look at me. I can’t help you if you don’t tell me the truth. Did anything bad happen?’

“Your response was, ‘No, nothing bad happened’.” The boy said that was correct.

Mr Mesereau again asked: “You told Mr Alpert twice that Mr Jackson had never done anything to you of a sexual nature, is that true?” The boy said: “Yes”.

The admission came just days after the boy told the court how Jacko molested him in bed when he was a 13-year-old. Jacko, 46, denies the charges.

Surprise witness Mr Alpert will give evidence himself later this week to confirm the story.

But prosecutors are expected to claim that sex abuse victims rarely tell authority figures the truth.

Yesterday the boy also admitted sending Jacko adoring letters that read: “I love you, Daddy — signing some “your son.”

Mr Mesereau asked him: “Do you remember sending this card ... ‘I love you Daddy. Thank you for being my Daddy, Michael’? The boy said: “I remember it.”

Mr Mesereau added: “You called him the nicest, most loving person in the world and wrote, ‘Thank you for being my best, best friend ever. I love you Daddy Michael’?” The boy said: “Yes.”

Mr Mesereau also claimed the boy had changed his story about when Jacko allegedly fondled him.

He said the teenager had told the court it happened AFTER telly reporter Martin Bashir made a damaging documentary on the singer’s bizarre lifestyle.

But, Mr Mesereau said, the boy previously told cops he was molested BEFORE the video was filmed.

JACKO is cashing in on his sex abuse trial — by selling videos of himself denying the charges.
Judge Rodney Melville has ruled he can flog the films to foreign TV to ease his £140million debts — but banned them from being screened in the US.