Nearly two years, much public condemnation and the customary collective near forgetting after, dancehall has been given a clean bill of health in Tanisha Henry's death.

As this newspaper reported yesterday, on Monday documents were presented which showed that the young woman died from heart disease, Acute Coronary Insufficiency and Cardiomyopathy to be precise.

So while the illness of the young woman who died has been revealed, the blame has been removed from the neck-swivelling, hair-raising dance the 'Dutty wine'.

Dance floor death

Unfortunately, we are sure that the clearance will not generate the same public debate that the initial claim that Henry died a 'dutty' death did. For not only has a long time passed between the dance floor death and the publicising of the cause, but we also suspect that many of those who called for the dance to be banned after Henry died are not that interested in the facts.

The intensity and volume of the criticism of the dance in the wake of Henry's death was, we believe, indicative of a wider resentment of dancehall. There was not so much concern for the 'dutty winers' as a grim 'I told you so' tone, reflective of an attitude that dancehall is inherently evil.

However, we do hope that the revelation of the cause of death will bring some relief to Henry's family. It must be much easier to accept that her demise was brought about by something that was near unpreventable rather than fun that went horribly wrong.