CCTV footage shows Prince visiting doctor the day before his death

A wealth of material gathered as evidence in the investigation into the death of musician Prince has been released, following the ruling that no criminal charges will be filed over his accidental overdose of the opioid painkiller fentanyl.

Among the 15GB of data made public by the Carver County sheriff’s office in Minnesota is CCTV footage of Prince visiting the offices of Dr Michael Schulenberg on 20 April 2016, the day before he died aged 57. Dr Schulenberg has since agreed to pay $30,000 (£21,330) in a settlement, after being charged with violating the Controlled Substances Act for writing an Oxycodone prescription for Prince in the name of the musician’s assistant, Kirk Johnson.

The archive comprises what attorney Mark Metz described as the “vast majority” of evidence in the case, and contains a police interview with the singer Sinéad O’Connor from 2 May 2016 in which she alleges Prince “used hard drugs commonly”. The Irish musician, who rose to fame in 1990 with the single Nothing Compares 2 U – a song written by Prince – claimed: “I’ve seen him in very frightening conditions after using drugs.” She alleged that he was abusive towards women while intoxicated: “He had been extremely violent to a number of women in his life, including myself, and several women were put in the hospital while Prince was under the effects of these medications.”

The data is available to download in its entirety from the Carver County sheriff’s website, and includes footage of Prince’s dead body inside his Paisley Park estate. It also features photographs of Prince’s vast archive of recordings and memorabilia: the images show a vault, secured by a heavy metal door, containing floor-to-ceiling shelves of hand-labelled tape recordings, boxes of VHS tapes and a gold briefcase. Other images show details of the prescription pills found at his home, his guitar collection, his cars, two pet doves, an empty fridge and a freezer filled with Haagen Dazs ice cream.

The original version of Nothing Compares 2 U, featuring Prince’s vocals, was made public for the first time on 19 April.