The man behind Bob Dylan's famous protest song, Rubin 'The Hurricane' Carter has died. He was 76. A professional boxer who was wrongfully imprisoned for almost twenty years for triple murder, Carter's life was immortalised in song and film.

Released in 1985 after a legal battle that spanned a generation, Carter had written his autobiography The Sixteenth Round in prison. The book went on to become an international best-seller and was adapted into the film, The Hurricane, starring Denzel Washington.

Rubin Carter was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011 and succumbed to the illness late last night.