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 a lie detector test 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 examination “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 a second lie detector test, with a different direction of questioning, Britain’s top polygraph 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”.
