Probe may touch Barbados

Billionaire Hans Kristian Rausing with his wife Eva a few years ago. (Pictures compliments Daily Mail)

By Tony Best | Sat, July 14, 2012 - 12:08 AM

Investigation by London police into the death of one of Britain’s richest women, Eva Liz Rausing, and the arrest of her husband Hans Kristian Rausin is likely to stretch to Barbados.

That may happen because the multi-billionaire couple who own one of the grandest homes in London’s upscale Belgravia district, reportedly valued at more than US$100 million and has the second biggest gardens after Buckingham Palace, also owns a sprawling 11-room mansion in Barbados where they spent months at a time, relaxing on the beach, enjoying the sun and living the good life.

Eva Rausing, an American-born beauty and philanthropist, was found dead at her luxury home several days ago and while the London Metropolitan Police remain tight-lipped about the cause of death, her husband, the heir of the Swedish tetra pak fortune, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the possession of cocaine and then questioned him about his wife’s death.

He is now in a private medical facility receiving treatment.

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Posted by Michael Atwell 10 months, 1 week ago: Give me a break. This has absolutely nothing to do with Barbados. Please see my response to a piece of rubbish journalism appearing in the UK newspaper the London Evening Standard. I will have to do this as two posts as the Nation only allows 2200 characters.

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Posted by Michael Atwell 10 months, 1 week ago: Michael Atwell to the UK newspaper The London Evening Standard, 14 minutes ago.
As a Barbadian living in the UK who visits Barbados at least five times a year, I find this article to be very offensive and not in the least an accurate account of life on the island.
I agree there are drugs available on the island, but drugs are available everywhere. London, New York, Paris and every city in the world has a drug problem.
I walk on the beaches, go to night clubs, party in the streets of Holetown and no where have I ever seen anything remotely resembling the statement from the article reproduced as my next sentence. "For all the island’s well-heeled affluence, it is also reportedly a place of hedonistic debauchery and widely available drugs. One 40-year-old Londoner, a regular visitor to the island at Christmas, its peak season, says: “Cocaine dealers are everywhere, they swarm around you like flies.” This is nothing but sensational journalism at its worst.
What has the writer of this article got against Barbados that she wants to paint such an awful picture of this little bit of paradise. Has she even ever been there? Has she witnessed this rampant use of and availability of drugs?
Instead of being derogatory about Barbados, why not clean up your act here in the UK first.
When I was a boy in Barbados we NEVER had any drugs. I grew up on Rockley beach and had never seen or heard of drugs, not even marijuana until I came to the UK in 1964.
It was the large influx of tourists in the late 60's and 70's who brought drugs to Barbados and created the drug problem .
I am sure that the regular visitors to Barbados who are not interested in using drugs will agree with me on what I have said.
I will say again, this article is nothing but rubbish.

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Posted by Jozette Bibby 10 months, 1 week ago: pray tell why the investigation may stretch to Barbados...just because they owned a house in Barbados...were they in the country hours or even weeks prior to her being discovered? or has the writer of this article run out of things to report?

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Posted by Pan Wallie 10 months, 1 week ago: I have to agree that the writer has a real contorted view of life here. The question is whether as a writer she ever checked her facts or simply accepted the accounts of people who allowed wealth to keep them 'so intoxicated' that they couldn't understand the truth even if it struck them hard in the face.
Perhaps the only sensible thing in this article refers to the safety and security and being able to avoid the paparazzi, the obvious reason they were able to use/abuse this fair land so. This writer should be invited down to do her own investigation of our culture, including the advent of drugs on our shores, on condition that she does a re-write. Again, another story of being careful with whom we allow to invest here - the Verdun House contribution.

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Posted by Kenneth King 10 months, 1 week ago: I could not agree more, Mr. Atwel said it like it is, some people just look for an excuse to write nonsense. This has nothing to do with Barbados and being a Barbadian of course I will not deny that their are a few drugs sold from time to time but that cannot compare to England or the USA and other countries with drug related problems of the trade. I was recently home and have not once been confronted with anyone trying to sell me anything, I guess those accusing us know exactly where one can acquire such Illegal drugs. We are an independent country and do not need to be involved such distasteful rumors, you came got your sea,Sun and good food along with a warm welcome then why the insult.