Editing Lang Hancock (section)

==Death and inquest==
In March 1992 Hancock died, aged 82 years,<ref name=Age-timeline/> while living in the guesthouse of the Prix D'Amour. According to his daughter, the death was "unexpected" and came "despite strong will to live".<ref name="chronology"/>

An autopsy showed that he had died of [[arteriosclerotic]] [[heart disease]] and police investigation revealed no evidence to contradict that.<ref name=Age-timeline/> However, Hancock's daughter insisted that her stepmother had unnaturally hastened his death. Two successive state coroners refused to allow an inquest, but one was eventually granted in 1999 under the direction of the [[Attorney-General of Western Australia|WA Attorney-General]], Peter Foss.<ref name=Age-timeline/>

After preliminary hearings during 2000, the inquest began in April 2001 with an initial estimate of 63 witnesses to be called over five weeks.<ref name=Age-timeline/> The inquest was dominated by claims that Porteous had literally nagged Hancock to death with shrill tantrums and arguments. Porteous denied the allegations, famously explaining: "For anyone else it would be a tantrum, for me it's just raising my voice."<ref name="age-quotes"/> In the last few days of Hancock's life, Porteous had attempted to pressure him into changing his [[will (legal)|will]] and Hancock eventually took out a restraining order against her.<ref>{{cite news |title=Test of Wills |author=McGeough, Paul |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=28 October 1995 }}</ref> The inquest was put on hold after allegations that Rinehart had paid witnesses to appear and that some had lied in their testimony.<ref name="abc-finalchapter">{{cite news |title=Lang Hancock – final chapter |author=Weber, David |work=ABC News |location=Australia |date=22 May 2003 }}</ref> It resumed three months later with a smaller witness list and ended with the finding that Hancock had died of natural causes and not as a result of Porteous' behaviour.<ref name=Age-timeline/>

With a legal bill of A$2.7m,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/04/26/1019441302945.html |title=The Rose and Gina show ain't over |author=Wainwright, Robert |date=27 April 2002 |work=The Age |location=Australia |accessdate=10 September 2011 }}</ref> Rose and William Porteous commenced action against Rinehart, that was eventually settled out of court in 2003.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s953986.htm |title=Hancock heirs settle inheritance dispute |work=PM (ABC Radio) |location=Australia |date=25 September 2003 |author=Grimm, Nick |format=transcript |accessdate=10 September 2011 }}</ref>