Mark Fuhrman, LA detective convicted of lying at OJ Simpson trial, dies

Key points

• Los Angeles police detective Mark Fuhrman, who was convicted of lying during testimony at the OJ Simpson murder trial, has died.
• Fuhrman was one of the first two police detectives sent to investigate the 1994 killings of Simpson’s e wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles.
• He reported finding a bloody glove at Simpson’s home, but his credibility came under attack during the trial as the defense raised the prospect of racial bias.
• Under cross-examination, Fuhrman testified that he had never made anti-Black racial slurs in the past decade, but a recording made by an aspiring screenwriter showed he had done so repeatedly.
• Lynn Acebedo, the chief deputy coroner in Kootenai county, Idaho, said that Fuhrman died on 12 May.