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Jimmi Hendrix “”May have been murdered”” According to Doctor

• 21st Jul 2009

John Bannister, the doctor who attended Jimmi Hendrix on the night he died in 1970 states that it is “Plausible” that he was murdered.

Bannister was speaking in relation to a new book “Rock Roadie” written by the guitarists' former roadie, James “Tappy” Wright, which alleges that the star was murdered by his former manager Mike Jeffery.

In the book Wright says that Jeffery admitted to having Hendrix murdered, hiring a gang to break into the Notting Hill hotel room and have sleeping pills and red wine forced down his throat.

Bannister has backed up the claim “It sounded plausable due to the amount of red wine” found in Hendrix's lungs and on his body. “The amount of wine that was over him was just extraordinary, not only was it saturated through his hair and shirt but his lungs and stomach were full of wine.” The Times reports Bannister saying.

Wright states within his book that Jeffery had told him that the star was worth more to him dead than alive and had filled a $2 million life insurance policy, shortly before his death.