By Merissa Richards, December 13, 2010
The controversial claim being made by the reggae legend's granddaughter
He was reggae's most famous son and the man credited with doing more to promote the culture of Rastafarianism than anyone else. Jamaican-born Bob Marley remains an iconic figure and his record sales to date are believed to top 190 million (GBP). He died in May 1981 from cancer aged 36.
Despite his official cause of death being widely accepted as due to acral lentiginous melanoma, nearly three decades after his death his granddaughter Donisha Prendergas, a documentary filmmaker, is controversially claiming that the real cause of Marley’s death was deliberate poisoning.
Prendergast, 25, who lives in Kingston, Jamaica, is currently in the UK filming a documentary on Rastafarianism, told The Voice: “Somebody killed him, look at history it shows us what they do to our leaders, he was a healthy man who exercised regularly. I would love to believe that he died of natural causes but history won’t allow me to. I believe he was poisoned.”
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