{"id":890555,"date":"2026-09-13T13:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890555\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T13:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T13:46:16","slug":"jason-rigby-death-the-suspect-in-the-fiji-resort-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890555\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Rigby death: The suspect in the Fiji resort murder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: There\u2019s a good reason Jess Rigby is working harder than ever before in an unpaid job with no days off.<\/p>\n

The mother-of-four has taken on the role of unofficial detective investigating the death of her brother-in-law, Jason Rigby, who was found stabbed in his staff quarters at Nadi\u2019s five-star Crowne Plaza Resort in Fiji.<\/p>\n

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Jason Rigby was found stabbed in his staff quarters at Nadi\u2019s five-star Crowne Plaza Resort in Fiji (pictured)\u00a060 Minutes<\/p>\n

After refusing to believe the Fiji police ruling that Jason died by suicide, Jess has set about uncovering new evidence.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I sit in our office on a Monday or Tuesday after I drop the kids off to school and I\u2019m like, \u2018Alright, what other avenue can I do? What other? Who else can I research? Who else can I reach out to? What else can we do to make some kind of change?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there is nobody doing that for Jason.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mother-of-four Jessica Rigby (pictured) has taken on the role of unofficial and unpaid detective, determined to find answers about her brother-in-law\u2019s death.\u00a060 Minutes<\/p>\n

But now, nearly two years on from Jason\u2019s death, Jess has finally found an unlikely ally echoing her own determination.<\/p>\n

With 30 years of investigative experience and a graduate of the FBI Academy in the US, Fiji Police Force Assistant Commissioner Loraini Seru has revealed the investigation into Jason\u2019s death has changed from suicide to murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are determined that we\u2019ll get the answers,\u201d Seru said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have treated it as a murder investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s confounding about this case is that as Jason lay dying, there were two other people in the room: his girlfriend Shivani Siwan and best friend Ian Lovie.<\/p>\n

Siwan told police she was there when it happened and immediately called Lovie.<\/p>\n

Lovie has always maintained Jason stabbed himself, yet he\u2019s never spoken to the Rigby family to explain exactly what happened.<\/p>\n

Siwan did speak to the family and it was the first they heard of Jason\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

But it was 10 hours after he\u2019d been stabbed.<\/p>\n

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Jason\u2019s girlfriend at the time, Shivani Siwan, refuses to talk \u00a060 Minutes<\/p>\n

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Executive chef Ian Lovie (pictured) was in the room as Jason Rigby died \u00a060 Minutes<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Shivani was the person who told Jason\u2019s parents that he had died,\u201d Jessica said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll she said to Robin and Peter were, you know, \u2018Jason\u2019s gone. He came home. He got a knife, went to the bathroom, and I heard a thud. He\u2019s gone.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was essentially how we knew he\u2019d passed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police have spoken to 18 witnesses, but there\u2019s one person police are focusing on.<\/p>\n

Seru has named Siwan as the only suspect so far.<\/p>\n

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Assistant Commissioner of the Fijian Police, Loraini Seru (pictured) reveals that the investigation into Jason\u2019s death has changed from suicide to murder.\u00a060 Minutes<\/p>\n

Seru revealed the police brief of evidence has just been handed to Fiji\u2019s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for possible charges.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a huge breakthrough for Jess, but she believes there\u2019s at least one more person who needs further police scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Watch the full story on 60 Minutes on 9Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Support is available from\u00a0Lifeline<\/a>\u00a0on 13 11 14 and Beyond Blue<\/a>\u00a0on 1300 22 4636.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive: There\u2019s a good reason Jess Rigby is working harder than ever before in an unpaid job with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-890555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}