Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster Mrs O'Loan said that her feeling was that "the situation had improved since the introduction of the videotaping of interviews in holding centres in Northern Ireland".
Given that Jackson said in the past that he had been addicted to painkillers -- in 1993 in a video statement he said this happened after his scalp was burned in a Pepsi commercial taping -- his liver was likely not as healthy as a normal 50-year-old's liver, Parker said.