Michael Barrymore did NOT administer drugs…
Ex-SAS officer, Jeremy Barrett,
managing director of Polygraph Security Services, was called in by
The News of the World newspaper (edition published on 12th February
2006) to administer polygraph testing to a key witness of the events
which took place at the home of Michael Barrymore in March 2001 following
which
a man,
named Stuart Lubbock, was found dead in the swimming pool. The entertainer
was accused of supplying drink and drugs to party-goers and also of
rubbing cocaine onto the Lubbock's gums against his will.
A guest at the party, Kylie Merritt had testified, and given evidence at the inquest into Lubbock's death, that she had seen Barrymore trying to put cocaine in the man's mouth and then rubbing the man's gums with cocaine.
It was only when Barrett was called in by the newspaper that the truth was uncovered and the witness's original statement was proven untrue. Barrett concluded, using specialist lie detection techniques, that she was now telling the truth in a changed of statement, as opposed to the statement she originally gave at the inquest.
When Merritt was asked during the
polygraph test "Are you certain that Michael Barrymore put cocaine
on his fingers and tried to put them into Stuart Lubbock's mouth?" she
replied "No".
Barrett concluded, having carefully analysed the polygraph charts,
that her reply was truthful. Thus it is clear that, for whatever reason,
she did not tell the truth at the inquest. After undergoing further
polygraph testing, with a different direction of questioning, Britain's
top polygraph test expert,
once again
concluded "She is telling the truth now
but was not doing so at the inquest when she said she had seen Barrymore
putting
cocaine in Lubbock's mouth".
