Tragedy of heiress minder: Bodyguard hanged himself after he 'let her down'
THE bodyguard of an heiress to an £11billion fortune hanged himself after he “let her down” by getting drunk in front of her friends, an inquest heard yesterday.
Ginia Rinehart, the daughter of Australia’s richest woman, found minder Jeremiah “Jerry” Rouwhorst, 35, unconscious on the floor of his suite at the Dorchester Hotel, London, on March 16. He died three days later.
I cannot be sure he wanted to kill himself
Hours earlier the ex- SAS soldier had sent the 27-year-old a text message saying he was going to resign because he had “disgraced” her.
Yesterday Westminster assistant coroner Shirley Radcliffe said the text was “a possible cry for help.
"I cannot be sure he wanted to kill himself”.
She recorded an open verdict.