JACKO'S DOCTOR TO BE FREED "BY CHRISTMAS"

Jacko’s doctor death to be freed ‘by Christmas’

Jackson's killer ... Conrad Murray

MICHAEL Jackson’s jailed doctor could be free in weeks — after barely a YEAR behind bars for killing the superstar.

Lawyers for Conrad Murray, 59 — caged for giving Jacko a sedative overdose — hope to get the struck-off personal physician released in time for Christmas because jails in Los Angeles are clogged.

They are filing a motion for him to do community service rather than serve his full four years — arguing it is “ridiculous” he is taking up a cell.

The move comes after he was moved to a bigger one earlier this month on health grounds.

Murray — who shares a wing with killers and drug barons at LA County Jail — had been rushed to hospital with a suspected blood clot.

Last night his lawyer Valerie Wass confirmed: “I hope Conrad may be allowed to come home for Christmas.

“It is ridiculous he has been in there for a year. He is not dangerous, violent or the type you need to take off the streets to punish him.

“They have already stripped him of his medical licence and it is a waste of everybody’s time and money to have him in there.”

Jacko, 50, was found dying at his Hollywood home in 2009.

Murray had pumped him full of propofol — and was jailed last year for involuntary manslaughter.

He is now said to be writing a book about the Prince of Pop.