Burial film irks Jackson brother

The Jackson family released some images from the ceremony

Randy Jackson has criticised the "surreptitious" filming of his brother Michael's funeral in Los Angeles.

A live video feed of guests arriving at Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park had been provided, but ceased as the star's body arrived for privacy reasons.

But a camera on a hovering helicopter kept filming the ceremony, leaving him "dismayed". It had "severely disrupted" the service, he said.

Jackson has requested the media stop showing that footage.

In a statement, the former Jacksons singer said: "I was dismayed last night and again today at the coverage I saw on television of our ceremony for Michael.

'Ignored wishes'

"We had asked the media to respect the privacy and the sanctity of this event; to give us one moment of privacy to mourn as a family out of the public spotlight.

"Unfortunately, despite a no-fly zone around Forest Lawn, many media organisations decided to ignore our wishes," he said.

Mourners arrive at Michael Jackson's funeral

"I therefore ask today that media organisations airing helicopter footage of the ceremony we held for my brother immediately pull that footage from their air and refrain from airing it in the future."

About 200 mourners gathered at the cemetery to pay their respects to Jackson including the star's former wife, Lisa Marie Presley, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, actor Macaulay Culkin.

The service took place after dark in the open air outside Forest Lawn's Great Mausoleum.

It came more than two months after Jackson died of a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs at the age of 50.

Last week Jackson's death was ruled to be a homicide by the Los Angeles coroner.