Jimi Hendrix Murder Theory "Plausible," Says Doctor

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Posted Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:43am PDT by Andy Pemberton in Musictoob
Jimi Hendrix was deliberately "drowned in red wine," says a new book--and the doctor who examined Hendrix's corpse says it's "plausible".
John Bannister, the on-call registrar at the now closed St. Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington, said that Hendrix appeared to have drowned in a large amount of wine.
He said that it was "plausible" that Hendrix was murdered.
That is also the opinion of James "Tappy" Wright, who worked as a road manager for Hendrix.
Wright, 65, has claimed in a new book that Hendrix's manager Mike Jeffrey was heavily in debt, and so took out a $2 million life-insurance policy on the star. Wright claims Jeffrey told him Hendrix was "worth more to him dead than alive."
Wright says that Jeffrey confessed ordering the killing of Hendrix a month before Jeffrey himself died in a plane crash.
Hendrix's offical cause of death was choking on vomit after taking painkillers.
According to Wright, a gang working for Jeffrey burst into Hendrix's flat and forced red wine and painkilers down his throat until he drowned.
Mr. Bannister, 67, said he had no idea who Hendrix was when he was called to Hendrix's flat on the morning of September 18, 1970.
Attempts to revive the star failed, said Mr. Bannister.
He said Mr. Wright's explanation of Hendrix's death "sounded plausible because of the volume of wine.”
“The amount of wine that was over him was just extraordinary. Not only was it saturated right through his hair and shirt, but his lungs and stomach were absolutely full of wine," he said.
"I have never seen so much wine. We had a sucker that you put down into his trachea, the entrance to his lungs and to the whole of the back of his throat.
“We kept sucking him out and it kept surging and surging. He had already vomited up masses of red wine and I would have thought there was half a bottle of wine in his hair. He had really drowned in a massive amount of red wine.”