Home /

Drugs, buried clothes and a hilltop mansion: The tragic end to US polo star's life

Kurt Bayer
By
South Island Head of News·NZ Herald·
17 mins to read

Today, Christchurch engineer Joseph McGirr was acquitted by a jury of giving ecstasy to a US polo player before she died in his spa bath – but found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice by burying her clothing after her death. Herald senior journalist Kurt Bayer reports.

They had the world at their feet. The young flash crowd. A pretty fourth-generation American polo player, professional polo playing son of a former All Black, and high-flying civil

Save