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 previous inquest hearing in January there was a conflict between the coroner, Magistrate Graveney Bannister, and John Paul McManus about a phone call allegedly made shortly after his wife’s death.
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Emma McManus inquest halted after court application by husband following disputed cocaine claims
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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 Coroner Magistrate Graveney Bannister to continue the inquest behind ‘closed doors’ to protect the interests of the couple’s three young children.