Daughter-in-law of Irish billionaire JP McManus mysteriously dies in Barbados

Emma McManus, the daughter of former Irish tennis star Peter Ledbetter the wife of McManus's son John and the daughter died at a hospital on the Caribbean island on Wednesday, December 30. Her funeral will take place in Barbados at 9 a.m. EST on Friday, January 8.

She stayed in a private villa on the grounds of the luxury Sandy Lane resort, which is partly-owned by JP McManus, and reportedly awakened in the early hours of Wednesday morning and complained of feeling unwell.

She was immediately taken to a local hospital and was declared dead shortly after she reached.

Royal Barbados Police said that they had ruled out the foul game and that her death was being treated as sudden death. It is set to carry out a post-mortem on her body to confirm a cause of death.

Local autopsies can also be expected to take up to a week to conclude in Barbados, according to a spokesperson for the Royal Police.

She was a graduate of Trinity College, Emma McManus is survived by her husband and her three children, who are all under the age of 9.