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An inquest into the tragic death of tycoon JP McManus’s daughter-in-law Emma can go ahead in Barbados, a court has ruled.

The bid by Irish millionaire John Paul McManus to have the Coroner’s Inquest into his wife Emma McManus’ death at their palatial Sandy Lane home halted by the High Court, has failed. Ruling that the inquest can continue, Justice Shona Griffith found that allegations of bias by McManus towards Coroner Graveney Bannister were misconceived. In addition, she has left it up to the coroner to decide if he will hold …

A coroner’s inquest into the death of billionaire businessman JP McManus’s daughter-in-law Emma McManus is to go ahead in Barbados, local media have reported.

AN INQUEST into the death of billionaire businessman JP McManus’s daughter-in-law has been temporarily halted following a court application for it to be held in private. Emma McManus (40) was found dead on December 30 by her husband, JP McManus’s son John Paul, in the bedroom of their residence in the luxury Sandy Lane resort in Barbados. A resumed inquest was due to hear toxicology evidence yesterday. However, it was halted following an application by lawyers for John Paul McManus to a civil court in Barbados for an order directing the resumed hearing be held “in camera”. At a previo...

JP McManus’s son in bid to block media from wife Emma’s inquest Extra.ie 15/02/2021 © Provided by Extra.ie Billionaire racing magnate JP McManus’s son John Paul wants the press barred from the inquest into his wife’s sudden death at their palatial Barbados home days after Christmas. The moves comes after claims – strongly denied by the widower – that he said ‘a little cocaine’ had been taken on the night of his wife Emma’s death in the Sandy Lane resort. The family’s lawyer, Maya Carrington, who held a watching brief for the widower at the hearing, has petitioned Coron...