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The identity of Marley’s shooter remains murky, although the attack has been linked to Jim Brown, a ­gangland enforcer who soon after became a powerful drug lord in the US cocaine trade, before he was burnt to death in a Kingston prison cell in 1992. A friend of ­Marley later claimed that the singer, on subsequently meeting Brown, recognised him as one of the men who came to the house that night. “Eventually, he knew who did it and, you know, everybody kind of figured out who did it. It was no secret after a while,” Ziggy tells me. “But we have a code, you know. It’s not necessary to say who did it. That’s our code, it was Bob’s code and we just keep it.”