Former Australian Greens leader Bob Brown has sought to clarify, once and for all, his role in the death of rock legend Jimi Hendrix in London in September 1970.He was then a resident doctor at St Mary Abbot's hospital when Hendrix's body was brought in, he told the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday.
"He had been dead for some hours," Senator Brown said.
"He'd had a bit too much to drink and whatever else and had inhaled vomitus."
He said another Australian doctor signed the musician's death certificate while he
went off to look after a patient who'd fallen under a train but was still alive.
Senator Brown said his resignation from the Senate would take effect from June 15.
A joint sitting of the Tasmanian Parliament then will decide whether to endorse Greens candidate Peter Whish-Wilson to fill the Senate casual vacancy.
Senator Brown said if all went to plan, he expected Mr Whish-Wilson to take his Senate seat on June 21.
The outgoing federal Greens leader said he would be setting up a foundation to foster environmental causes and was in the process of writing two books.
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