{"id":178890,"date":"2025-12-07T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178890\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:03:09","slug":"im-willing-to-spend-any-amount-of-money-to-keep-this-quiet-what-jp-mcmanuss-son-told-pathologist-over-late-wifes-cocaine-use-new-court-papers-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178890\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m willing to spend any amount of money to keep this quiet\u2019: what JP McManus\u2019s son told pathologist over late wife\u2019s cocaine use, new court papers claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nTycoon\u2019s son tried to keep results showing wife Emma had drug in her system when she died on Barbados trip\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emma McManus with her husband John and father-in-law JP in 2011 against a background of the Sandy Lane resort in Barbados. Photomontage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/e0896f49-fe4c-4e22-a004-e915deaea0ad.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Emma McManus with her husband John and father-in-law JP in 2011 against a background of the Sandy Lane resort in Barbados. Photomontage<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The son of JP McManus allegedly told a pathologist that he was \u201cwilling to spend any amount of money\u201d to keep private the toxicology results indicating his wife had used cocaine before she died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The claim is made in new court documents lodged with the Barbados \u00adSupreme Court, where widower John Paul McManus has lost his case in seeking to overturn a coroner\u2019s ruling that the death of his wife, Emma (40), was linked to using cocaine in \u00adDecember 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tycoon\u2019s son tried to keep results showing wife Emma had drug in her system when she died on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,66155,7113,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-178890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-jp-mcmanus","11":"tag-mark-tighe","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}