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#Tosh o and rad racing free#

And it was, ironically, by the gun that he would meet his end.ĭennis Lobban, familiarly called “Leppo”, appeared before the court charged with the multiple murder of: Wilton Brown Peter Tosh and Jeff Dixon, o/c Free I, a well-known Rastafarian broadcaster and disc jockey on the now defunct To symbolise this, he carried a guitar in the shape of an M-16 rifle. He was known for his biting lyrics and radical disposition that endeared him to those who opposed “the establishment”.

Winston McIntosh, known to his legion of fans as Peter Tosh, the 'Stepping Razor', was part of the trio the Wailers - the other being Neville Bunny Wailer Livingston and Robert Nesta Marley, known to the world as Bob Marley. It was a story that would be followed well beyond the shores of this beautiful Caribbean island.

Mr Justice Patterson (later appeal judge) and a jury heard all about this tragic story in the No 1 Home Circuit Court in 1988. She went, as Jamaicans would say, “to death's door”. But not before Marlene Brown went through agony, as at first blush, it was thought a bullet had lodged at the back of her head. HOW did the internationally known Jamaican icon and reggae singer, Peter Tosh - second only in fame to the legendary Bob Marley - really die?Īnd, after the impact of his brutal murder hit the local and foreign Press, what other sensation could one have imagined the blood-thirsty killers had in mind, when they also massacred, in one sitting, well-known broadcaster and disc jockey, Jeff Dixon, o/c Free I and another man, known as Wilton Brown?Īnd, to add spice it seemed, to the whole movie-like script, the common-law wife of Tosh, Marlene Brown the wife of Free I and visitors Michael Robinson and Santa Davis, survived to re-visit this bloodcurdling tale.