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 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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