Cruise Ship Drug Overdose
Dianne Brimble - Drug Overdose - Death
P & O Cruise Lines - September 23, 2002
Investigation Shows Illegal Drug GHB In Her Bloodstream
It has been STATED, at the onset of the inquest, the Dianne Brimble inquest will show she was gang raped after being given a date rape drug overdose that resulted in her death on the cruise.
Police alleged Mrs Brimble was given the date rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate, otherwise known as GBH (GREAT BODILY HARM) or fantasy, before being sexually assaulted. [Read About This Drug Here].
Photos taken in the cabin where she died show the level of the drug in her system was so high it caused her to froth at the mouth. One report says the toxicology showed three times the normal dosage in her system.
Counsel assisting the coroner, Ron Hoenig, told the court Mrs Brimble died in "absolutely reprehensible circumstances". The evidence will clearly show Mrs Brimble was killed," Mr Hoenig told the court. "(She was) preyed upon by some people, having had administered to her a substance that broke her will or interfered with any ability of her to say yes or no." The inquest before Deputy State Coroner Jacqueline Milledge continues.
The Coroner's inquest began March 9, 2006
At the inquest a fellow passenger, Kellie Davis Photo Is Here , came forward and stated she saw Dianne unconscious on the floor of a cruise ship cabin, but it never crossed her mind that she was dying. She did nothing to help the woman, thinking she was only passed out drunk. She tearfully told the coroner's court that she wanted to help now in anyway she could. Ms Davis and her traveling companions - sister Kellie Davis and friends Natasha McCann and Tanya Power - shared a cabin near to where Brimble's body was found
Witnesses Testify Of Fear
Davis told the inquest that early on September 24 Mr Kuchel, Mr Losic and Mr Pantic came into the cabin she shared with her sister and two female friends down the corridor. She claimed Mr Losic allegedly offered her a pinkish liquid called fantasy. She said she was scared when Mr Kuchel who she described as quite a "beefy bloke" passed out after drinking it.
It also came out that Mr Wilhelm was running through the corridor wearing nothing but a life jacket, ( Photo Is Here )and digital photographs of him having sex with Mrs Brimble were shown to the women. Davis said that there was a lot of disgusting comments being made about her size and that she was an older lady.
The Dancing Detectives
Davis said her and her companions stuck together and avoided the men for the rest of the trip. She told the inquest they had stuck close to the police officers who came onboard to investigate, and danced with the detectives because the eight persons of interest had tried to intimidate them on the dance floor on the night the police arrived. She said the eight had surrounded the women, "standing aggressively looking at us, watching us".
Evidence Is Found
Police investigators found a condom wrapper, hydroxy capsule and three small tablets among items in the trash can. After Mrs Brimble was pronounced dead, P&O security staff did not secure the crime scene, allowing the men to remove their belongings from cabin #182, when they were relocated to another cabin, disturbing the crime scene.
Silverstri's belongings removed before NSW Police arrived to investigate included his Viagra, Valium and Travacalm. Dianne Brimble's cabin was sealed off.
The inquest was shocked to hear as Pacific Sky passenger Allison McKain told how Leo Silvestri descrbed as jittery, had spoken to her less than two hours after Mrs Brimble's death. "The b----- is dead, the f---ing b---- is dead. Some s--- went down last night, some top secret s---," he allegedly told her.
More Witnesses Testify
Mr Losic and friend Mark Wilhelm allegedly attempted to force themselves on a woman in another cabin as Mrs Brimble lay dead or dying in their own cabin. Brisbane woman Tanya Power broke down as she recalled trying to move away from the men.
Powers Testimony Paints Men As On An Orgy Mission
Ms Power told the court she had awaken the morning of September 24, 2002, with a naked man - another person of interest, Mark Wilhelm - climbing into her Pacific Sky cabin bunk naked without invitation. She said he "kept grabbing her" and she finally "gave him a hug so he would leave me alone". Ms Power said she asked him three times to get out of her bed but finally left herself, moving to her friend's empty top bunk. It was while she was there that Mr Losic joined her and tried to kiss her a few times, she said. Asked by Mr Hoenig if she wanted him to be in the bed with her, Ms Power replied: "No." She tried to "push him away" but he was quite persistent. She broke down when she first viewed photographs from the night, saying: "It makes me look like I have gone along with it."
About two hours after Brimble died, Mr Silvestri told passenger Allison McKain that a woman had died on his cabin floor. She told the court yesterday that later in the cruise, Mark Wilhelm had lied to her and said a post-mortem had been conducted on Brimble and found she had died from natural causes. "They actually said they had a formal apology from the captain and that they had been offered a free cruise. That wasn't true." She said that on one evening after Brimble's death, the men had attended a "fright night party" wearing slashed T-shirts with blood painted on them. "They seemed to take it to the murder extreme," she said. "In different circumstances, without the death of Mrs Brimble, it may have been appropriate, but with the death of Mrs Brimble I didn't think it was appropriate at all," Ms McKain said.
Police Recover Deleted Photos Of Sex Taken With Phone
The court heard the explicit photos of Brimble on the night she died had been recovered from a mobile phone memory stick owned by Mr Kambouris. Detective Senior Constable Victor Rulewski said the images had been deleted from the memory stick and were recovered by police technical experts. The memory stick also contained family shots and shots of children in a family setting, he told the court. Senior Constable Rulewski said Mr Kambouris had told police he worked in juvenile justice in South Australia, "on the corrections side". "He was working with wayward children," he said.
Counsel assisting coroner Ron Hoenig said an anonymous caller had contacted a police hotline with vital information about Brimble's death. Mr Hoenig urged the caller to contact the police again, and said that the officers would "guarantee that person anonymity and protection".
It is imporant to note at this point, that two of the persons of interest complained to the coroner's court that they had travel plans cancelled in order to be at the inquest and demanded $4000 in compensation for missing their travel.
Cruise Bruise has been contacted by a family member of one of the person's of interest, and has been contacted by the New South Wales Police.
Police in South Australia now have information in which one of the eight men discusses giving fantasy, also known as GBH, to a 40-year-old woman on a cruise ship who later died.
