An interview in which OJ Simpson suggests an accomplice was involved in the murder of his ex-wife is to air on a US network next week. During the interview the former sports star Simpson, who was acquitted of the 1994 murders of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman, discusses how he would hypothetically have committed the murders.

The interview was conducted in 2006 but never released due to public outrage as it centred on Simpson's controversial book, If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer in which he theorises about the night of the killings.

It has now emerged that during the discussion Simpson suggested he would have used an unnamed accomplice - the first suggestion that the killer may not have acted alone.

The pair were found dead outside Ms Brown Simpson's Los Angeles home on June 12 1994 in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds to their head and necks.

Simpson, 70, was charged with both murders but acquitted by a jury in 1995. The sensational case was dubbed the "trial of the century" due to international interest in the case and was even televised.