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Coroner Rules Fortress Co‑CEO Joshua Pack’s Death a Misadventure in London

The ruling signals an accidental death finding that stops short of a suicide verdict.

Overview

  • HM Senior Coroner Professor Fiona Wilcox recorded a conclusion of death by misadventure at a May 2026 inquest.
  • Hours after a heated argument over flight tickets, his wife said they traded self-harm threats and he acted impulsively during a night of on‑and‑off drinking.
  • Household staff later found Pack with a ligature in a locked top‑floor bedroom of the St John’s Wood home after entering through a bathroom crawl space.
  • Police told the court their scene work and phone review showed no evidence of third‑party involvement and no sign he planned his death.
  • The coroner cited jet lag, alcohol, intense work pressures from Fortress’s European expansion, a history of impulsivity, and a prior family suicide as contributing factors.