New Delhi, May 19 -- Mark Fuhrman, former Los Angeles police detective who found the glove during investigation into OJ Simpson murder trial and was convicted of lying during testimony, has died. He was 74 years old.

Lynn Acebedo, the chief deputy coroner in Kootenai County, Idaho, said that Fuhrman died May 12. The county does not release the cause of death as a rule.

According to the TMZ, Mark Fuhrman died from an aggressive form of throat cancer. He was diagnosed last year and had been hospitalised about a week before his death. He had also underwent a cancer treatment, but decided to stop later.

Mark Fuhrman was an investigator in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD).

After OJ Simpson's acquittal in 1995, Fuhrman retired from ...