Emma McManus with her husband John at the Galway Races in July 2011. Photograph: Brenda FitzsimonsJohn McManus, the son of billionaire JP McManus, has filed a new appeal in Barbados in an attempt to quash a coroner’s finding that his wife’s December 2020 death was a result of cocaine use. Graveney Bannister, the coroner, issued findings in September 2024 that found Emma McManus’s death was cocaine-related. John McManus is now appealing a ruling from last November that refused to quash Bannister’s finding. The private report concluded that Emma McManus’s cause of death was “natural”, arising from asphyxia caused by inhalation of food material.

Source: The Irish Times March 05, 2026 00:01 UTC