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MCMANUS DEATH PROBED IN BARBADOS

The following report extracted from the Irish publication The PHOENIX – David, Blogmaster     THE DEATH on December 30 of 40 year old Emma McManus, daughter-in-law of zillionaire JP McManus, in the exclusive Caribbean Sandy Lane resort, reverberated around the super rich circles in Barbados as well as back home in Ireland. Confusion was…

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The following report extracted from the Irish publication The PHOENIX – David, Blogmaster

 

McManus Arriving at Inquest

 

THE DEATH on December 30 of 40 year old Emma McManus, daughter-in-law of zillionaire JP McManus, in the exclusive Caribbean Sandy Lane resort, reverberated around the super rich circles in Barbados as well as back home in Ireland.

Confusion was the order of the day and the memorial service initially planned take place at the start of January was deferred until the following week. Now the inquest is putting the tragedy back under the spotlight, featuring disputed references to alleged cocaine use.

Emma was married John Paul McManus, son of the Geneva based tax exile JP, who found himself giving evidence at inquest in Barbados yesterday – an experience that proved predictably intrusive. As reported in the local Daily Nation newspaper, John McManus had to deny that he told the office of coroner Graveney Bannister in a telephone call, allegedly made shortly after the death of Emma, that they had been doing “a little cocaine”.

Emma McManus

McManus confirmed there had been a party at their Sandy Lane property but denied he had told the official at the coroner’s office that any cocaine had been taken, also rebutting a claim that he had a convenient memory. When asked if he was claiming that Bannister was “making it all up”, McManus suggested the coroner had misheard him and also said he “would happily take a test for it”.

The inquest also heard that there was a dispute about calls allegedly made asking how quickly Emma McManus’s body could be released for burial, with John McManus denying he had repeatedly telephoned the coroner: “We were in a state of grieving and people were eager for answers, so it wasn’t me that did anything”.

His statement to the police, which was read into evidence by Sergeant Robert Jones, said the Emma McManus had left Sandy Lane’s Monkey Bar around 11.30pm on December 29 to return to the house, while her husband was taken home around 4am and put on the couch to sleep.

In the morning, he found his wife dead in the bed and she was rushed to Sandy Crest hospital. McManus’s statement concluded, “She was not smoking anything and I don’t know if she was taking any narcotics.”

The inquest has been adjourned until next month, when the toxicology report is to be read to the court.

119 responses to “MCMANUS DEATH PROBED IN BARBADOS”

  1. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Hal I think your insurance claim is an assumption, if my wife were to die there is no insurance money or if I die my wife would get nothing from an insurer either ,unless it was a car accident or someone else was negligent or culpable but that is litigation more than insurance.

  2. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Lawson

    You are anticipating the outcome of the inquest. If she had life insurance and it was a ‘natural’ death the insurance company will have to pay out.
    Dublin is part of the EU, not Barbados. I suggest you change your insurance company. I am surprised since Canadian insurance is dominated by Scotsmen, as in the UK. The Edinburgh Mafia.

  3. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Pachamama January 29, 2021 3:13 PM “And the population has no real problem wid dat.”

    True.

    Two Barbadoses indeed.

    White people do not mourn with us black Bajans. We know it. We see it. They don’t come to our christenings, confirmations, graduations, weddings or funerals.

    So “no” we do not mourn when white people die.

    When they start mourning with us, then we will start mourning with them.

  4. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
    Romans 12:15

  5. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    Hal I have no life insurance

  6. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    I seem to see what you mean,Cudhear but in their defence maybe they cannot rap or dagger.

  7. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    Seems like good planning.

  8. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    When the kids were young and I owed a lot on buildings it made sense now with them paid off or little mortgages and kids grown up it is not necessary if I die and they need money just sell something. Saves me 600 per month, that a lot of drinking money.

  9. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Artax

    “@ Mr. Skinner

    I agree an investigation should be launched into that matter.

    However, to be fair, we only know of this situation because Bannister was ‘more or less’ forced to publicly reveal during the inquest, the details of the telephone conversation him and McManus.

    How do we know if “ordinary Bajans” similarly called the Coroner for information and received a response, when such occurrences have not been revealed in the public domain?”

    This is our problem , we like guesswork , what ifs and supposition. I am saying what I read in the papers coming out of our law courts.

  10. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    As was reported ” John McManus had to deny that he told the office of coroner Graveney Bannister in a telephone call, allegedly made shortly after the death of Emma, that they had been doing “a little cocaine”. ”

    That is what triggered my use of the word ALLEGED and why I said there should be a police investigation.

    “a little cocaine” is not a little rum and coke.

  11. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    The British tabloids will have a field day with this story.

  12. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Hants January 29, 2021 6:00 PM ““a little cocaine” is not a little rum and coke.”

    I little cocaine is:

    one line?
    Two?
    Three?
    Ten?
    100?
    How much is “a little?”

  13. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Lawson January 29, 2021 5:13 PM “When the kids were young and I owed a lot on buildings it made sense now with them paid off or little mortgages and kids grown up it is not necessary if I die and they need money just sell something. Saves me 600 per month, that a lot of drinking money.”

    I rarely agree with lawson, but this time I do.

    Especially his last sentence.

    I wonder how much rum, wine, herb, cocaine I should up with for the lock down?

  14. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    I saw people with trollies of alcohol…am like, you in for the long haul…damn.

    “So the matter was in the public domain in Barbados and abroad from New Year’s Day as I was probably one of the last to hear.”

    yes you were, that story was circulating everywhere from the next day and the British tabloids already had their field day, this is gravy. Even FB ignored it, probably waiting to hear the rest of it…a treat.

  15. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Lawson January 29, 2021 5:06 PM “I seem to see what you mean,Cudhear but in their defence maybe they cannot rap or dagger.”

    But lawson we don’t rap or dagger at our grandmothers’ funerals.

    Sedate singing of hymns.

    Careful listening to sermons.

    Restrained crying.

    Maybe a little rum afterwards.

  16. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    But poor little kiddies.

    My sweet mummy died when i was 47 and I still miss her. I can’t imagine what it must be like to be little and be with mum one day and the next to have your whole little world turned upside down.

    I am truly sorry for the little kiddies.

  17. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    According to dailymail.co.uk “Son of horse racing magnate JP McManus ‘took cocaine’ on night of partying before being ‘taken home and put to sleep on couch’ – then woke next morning to wife Emma dead in bed at their Barbados home, inquest hears”
    More here:
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9199893/Son-horse-racing-magnate-JP-McManus-took-cocaine-sudden-death-wife-Emma.html

    In the photographs the men at the funeral are all wearing very, very nice, very British suits. I think that our Hal would approve. They are not dressed “like gangsters with open necked shirts and gold chains” as some of Barbados’ public officials are alleged to dress.

  18. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    The lotta y’all pun fire, mussee a friday evening.
    My only agreement is sorrow for the children. cause effin the father can’t go home with his wife who isn’t feeling all de well, his care of 3 young girls would seem to be in doubt. So he gets ‘dumped on the couch’ at 4.30am by somebody (??), and apparently doesn’t (is not able?) to check on his wife? Who was taking care of the children? I bet they were awake before he was. As @WB might say, things get curiouser and curiouser.

  19. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    So when do you consider it all right for daggering Cuhdear lol but everything is not as pleasant as you make it it sound for us whites at your church gatherings and I have heard you do things scary to us at your services ….like pass around the collection plate. I am on the fence about just showing up at one of your funeral services after I saw an undertaker make a woman’s love of motorcycle riding part of the ceremony by having her in full leather on her bike …. What if I went there and the elderly woman’s love was pole dancing ….

  20. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    What the hell is daggering?
    Am I out of touch?

  21. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @Lawson January 29, 2021 7:38 PM ” I have heard you do things scary to us at your services ….like pass around the collection plate.”

    And if the collection plate is not satisfactory at the first going around we are not afraid to pass it twice.

  22. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @TheOGazerts January 29, 2021 8:46 PM “What the hell is daggering? Am I out of touch?”

    Question 1: You don’t want to know

    Question 2: Yes. You are out of touch

  23. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    William Skinner January 29, 2021 5:26 PM #: “This is our problem , we like guesswork , what ifs and supposition. I am saying what I read in the papers coming out of our law courts.

    @ Mr. Skinner

    Didn’t I wrote, “However, to be fair, we only know of this situation because Bannister was ‘more or less’ forced to publicly reveal during the inquest, the details of the telephone conversation him and McManus,”…………..

    ………… which, similarly to you, is what I (also) read in the papers coming out of our law courts?”

    And, isn’t it true if we did not read in the papers about what occurred, we wouldn’t know of such occurrences in Barbados? Then, how do you know whether or not ‘ordinary Bajans’ likewise called a Coroner?

    Therefore, in the absence of that information, aren’t you also engaging in “guesswork, what ifs and supposition,” when one takes your comments on this issue, and especially about “two Barbadoes” into consideration?

    So, perhaps you want to explain what about my comments are “guesswork, what ifs and supposition.”

    Sometimes you guys give me the impression that you believe your ‘thought levels’ are on a much higher plane than us lessor mortals on BU.

  24. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Cuhdear Bajan January 29, 2021 4:38 PM

    @Artax January 29, 2021 3:10 PM “Apparently, since the lady…”

    How do you know that she was a lady?

    As far as I know the term for adult human females is WOMAN.

    I hope that you are not one of those fellas who talk about black women and white ladies?

    Although of course I an not a lady, being only a silly woman.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    @ Cuhdear Bajan

    I was curious about what were the reasons for your above comment. My curiosity was satisfied when I read, “being only a silly woman.”

  25. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Artax
    I would ignore the “ you guys thought levels… “ remark. You and I don’t operate at that level. 😊 Note I never said “ you” ; I said this is “our” problem. I did not exclude myself. In other words I did not put myself above anybody.
    I said that I had never heard that kind of exchange or anybody calling a coroner exposed in our law court.
    I was dealing with hard public evidence. I did not see the need to cloud the issue by introducing if it had been done before and we did not know. We know of this occurrence now. There are no ifs , buts or supposition. Clearly, In this case I am dealing with what transpired in the law courts .
    I hope this clears up my position.

  26. Crusoe Avatar
    Crusoe

    LawsonJanuary 29, 2021 7:38 PM

    You just blew my mind with your last sentence. Not sure what to do with that one. Graphic and not pleasant. Some probably have some kind of fetish with that, but does sound scary.

  27. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Cuhdear Really twice … To get me to church the plates they are passing around better have food on them. I have decided that when I am gone I will be cremated and have my buddy bring my ashes down when he goes to the crane, drive to the middle of the island and cast them to the four winds to become part of the fabric of the island. Then each summer as Donna is chowing down on an eggplant or potato or carrot from her garden she will have to wonder if she got an ear an elbow or a dick from Lawson in her soil.lol
    Yeah Crusoe I outdid myself with that one. Its funny people say you cant scare yourself but I pretty much did.

  28. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Nobody here thinks much about the injustice system in Barbados.

    Maybe we also know that if it happens to be on the threshold of proving a case unfavourable to Mcmanus or their wider interests police files will be made to disappear. It’s amazing how cheaply something like that could be bought. Centainly, the people doing such must to chomping at the bit, awaiting the approach.

  29. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Lawson

    You are right about your kids. We call it Ski – spending your kids inheritance. Your obligation to them ends at the end of university, then they are on their own.
    So, from birth to university, then freedom. I think in the US it is called emancipation; if the kid does not go to university it can be as early as age 18.

  30. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Hal you are right I should have started your ski program many years ago. My generation or type of personality could never buy a new car, I would buy it used take the money I saved and have a good time partying because when they come and take your license away and they will and you are in that old age home you can always look back on fond memories So the kids will always get a little something, ….they are banking on it and a lottery win into their retirement financial equation lol. I tell you covid has really made a difference in future wealth for the kids, you cant spend money on anything, you cant travel ,you have to eat and drink at home, working from home not using as much gas the big stores closed all you need is pajamas and netflix. .

  31. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Lawson

    The little buggers even get angry with you when you spend your own money I will give an example of a Jamaican-born man here in the UK.
    He had a son from his first marriage and named him after him, you know the popular Lawson the second caper. His first wife died and he remarried to an English lady; they moved to Spain.
    The son thought he was spending his inheritance, forged documents to the family home (which was not difficult to do) and put it in his name.
    When the father returned from Spain and was trying to sort out his business, he found he could not. My suggestion was to jail the son and disinherit him. But, of course, the father got sentimental.

  32. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ TheOgazerts for your education which is lacking in Caribbean urban culture,lol

    ” Daggering is a form of dance originating from Jamaica. The dance incorporates the male dancer ramming his crotch area into the female dancer’s buttocks, and other forms of frantic movement. Daggering is not a traditional dance; it is of recent origin, associated with the 2006 wave of dancehall music.”

  33. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Who telling lies or was it a misunderstanding ?

    https://www.nationnews.com/2021/01/28/husband-denies-cocaine-comment/

  34. lawson Avatar
    lawson

    Hal that isnt much of a son. If one of my children opted to do that rather than the old fashion way of guilt tripping you for it I would cut him out of money. A man says to his wife you only are with me because of the 8 million dollars my father left me ….Dont be crazy she says it wouldnt matter who left it to you.

  35. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    What I cannot understand is if the bedroom/apartment was cordoned off as a crime scene? Was the husband held for questioning, or, as it is called at this stage, helping police with their inquiries? What about forensics?
    There is a lot that should have come out in the press briefings, which either has not or has not been reported or I just have not seen it.
    Since no-one has been charged, the press is free to report fully on the case. Why aren’t they? It is not yet sub judice.

  36. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    @Hants

    Thanks

    Too old to dagger
    My best is a stagger
    Unable to juck
    When I try to wuk-up

    @Lawson
    I like the idea of a cremation and scattering the ashes.

  37. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ TheOGazerts,

    Write a few more verses and you will have a calypso to send to John King. lol

  38. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    Theo better yet mix the ashes in a concrete mesh frame and put in ocean it forms an artificial reef, Some people are totally against cremation ,I remember making sandcastles with my grandma and somebody called the cops on me.

  39. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Pure evil

    https://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2020-2021/peter-nygard-the-secret-videos

  40. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Why is everybody being so dire, so lacking hope?

    How can you all continue to do this?

    Surely, the law will prevail as inconsistent as it has been?

    For surety it has gotten a lot right.

    This hypercritical attitude towards the judicial system only beckons dystopia and the anarchy thusly associated, no?

    How do you do it? The unrelenting embrace of criticism instead of the normalization of injustice and the misguided hopefulness giving the perception associated with blissful ignorance, the unexamined life unworthy of living. LOL

  41. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “This hypercritical attitude towards the judicial system only beckons dystopia and the anarchy thusly associated, no”

    those judges at the supreme court who never do their jobs want exposing to the whole of Europe and North America, so when they’re travelling all proud and full of shit, everyone knows who they are, they’re very disrespectful to elderly people and refuse to hand down decisions and complete cases…they still got this backward delusion that everyone’s afraid of them…

  42. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “If one of my children opted to do that rather than the old fashion way of guilt tripping you for it ”

    children form a cult from early, forgetting that parents know how to guilt trip too.

  43. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Black people have extremely short memories when it comes to the toxic, colonial slave system.THAT’S STILL IN FORCE..

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/104173366635256/permalink/1315455588840355/

  44. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    If ah hear anything about any human trafficking in Barbados ah go report yall asses.

    “#NEWS: The Criminal Justice Reform project, funded by the Governments of the UK 🇬🇧 and the US 🇺🇸, provided over 50 e-learning programmes on Human Trafficking to the Office of the Attorney General of Barbados 🇧🇧.
    The e-learning modules were developed as training aids for frontline responders, who may encounter trafficked individuals as part of their daily duties.”

  45. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    https://youtu.be/sqiIFTH4qtQ

  46. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    No problem with eating your dick ashes, Lawson. EVERYTHING is recycled. May have already drunk your recycled piss.

    Of course, you may also have had some of mine!

  47. Lawson Avatar
    Lawson

    I dont know about drinking it but I am pretty sure I drove through it at the kfc on south coast.a couple of years back.

  48. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Expect no less from tourism pimps….glad they’re exposing this piece of trash all over Europe and North America.

    “Injustices Barbados
    oJtlSealnuhgarpgraffyon 3s0hdho art d8ueu:d5Seof3a PM ·
    Will the Minister of Labour, the unions and the rest of Barbados just stand by and allow this man to treat workers like trash? Why are we allowing the owner of the Soco hotel to hire staff and fire or lay them off just before they have put in a year of employment. He has run through more than 100 persons since 2019. There is no job security there. I spoke to both ex staff and present staff and they have all said the same thing. He does not like to pay. NIS, vacation pay, severance or even for the beds at the hotel he still owes Slumberest for. Tanya Lamontagne died before she could get one cent from this man. He sends those he owes to the tribunal instead of paying them. Boycott this hotel until he learns to treat the staff with respect. This is going to our colleagues in Canada, Europe and Australia. Workers deserve better than this.”

  49. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    No one deserves it more than this house niga…everyone is waiting for his brutal end.

    “Mr. Taylor you like to insult workers and tell them they are nothing. What makes you something? Writing bounce cheques? Stealing gratuity that should be given to staff? Exploiting workers and dismissing them before they are eligible for benefits? Not paying NIS? Not paying vacation pay? Blacklisting past employees so they cannot get work? Running publicity stunts and not giving people the prizes they have won? Dismissing more than 100 staff in one year? How can you feel bigger than them when you cannot even pay Sleeprite for their beds? How can you be big if you cannot pay Tropical Laundry? You owe Banks, BICO, Continental and Firgos. Tell the public why you cannot use Room Master. You cannot even pay for its use. You are callous, dishonest and corrupt. We will not give up until you are made to make amends for your wrongs to these people.”

  50. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    BTW…you also have judges at the supreme court who are thieves, they make sure to accept and spend their $10,000-12,000 dollars per month in salary with perks, but then refuse to do their jobs and hand down decisions…that’s theft of taxpayer’s money, taking money under false pretences…and the frauds in the parliament allow this to happen, it’s been happening for decades…they just abandon cases and refuse to close matters.

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