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Died from an acral lentiginous melanoma, which had been diagnosed in 1977, spreading from under a nail of his toe. First discovered the melanoma during a game of football in 1977, when a foot injury seemed unusually bad, and worsened over time.
Doctors advised to have his toe amputated, but refused as his Rastafarian faith considers it a sin to have a part of the body "temple" removed.
He did consent to a skin graft but this didn’t stop the disease spreading throughout his body by the summer of 1980.
Died at the Cedars Of Lebanon Hospital on May 11, 1981.