A former security guard at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Valley Ranch testified on Wednesday that staff were instructed to keep the pop star’s teenage accuser from leaving the property.

Brian Barron, a police officer who moonlighted as a security guard at Neverland from 1997 to 2004, said the notice was posted in a ranch security office in early 2003. That was around the time the boy and his family said they were held prisoner by Jackson and his aides.

“It simply stated (the boy) is not allowed off the property,” Barron said.

He testified that the note was written on a dry-erase board and stayed there for about a week. He understood it to mean “that we weren’t to allow him off the property without some type of permission.”

Source: Reuters