Cruise Ship Drug Overdose
Dianne Brimble - Drug Overdose - Death
P & O Cruise Lines - September 23, 2002
He also claimed that Mrs Brimble had "belittled" Mark Wilhelm after sleeping with him, saying he was "the worst sexual partner she had ever had". Clearly the gloves are off with these two cabin mates.This was heard after she had sex with Wilhelm by Silvestri, who has testified befoe he was asleep the entire time Dianne was in the cabin, until he and Wilhelm tried to revive Dianne lying the floor not moving, when Wilhelm woke him up
While the medical team tried to revive Danne, Silvestri hooked up with Ryan Kuchel in the pizza bar of the cruise ship. Kuchel then told Silvestri he had witnessed and heard Mr Wilhelm offer the GHB to Mrs Brimble and she accepted.
According to Mr Silvestri, Mr Kuchel said Mrs Brimble had asked "What is that" "Mark replied 'it is fantasy'," Mr Silvestri said. "Dianne asked 'what does it do to you?' "Mark replied 'have you ever been horny? This will make you 10 times hornier. It's like ecstasy.' "Mark then asked if she would like some and she replied 'yes'.
Silvestri denies giving Dianne any drugs, and said he wasn't aware the others had illegal drugs onboard, until after Dianne's death. He further said the only drugs he had with him at the time were Viagra, valium, sleeping pills, and tablets to aid in body building.
"I said to Mark, 'what the bloody hell are you doing' because I knew he had a lovely girlfriend at that stage," Mr Pantic said.
When Deputy State Coroner Jacqueline Milledge suggested to Mr Pantic that "Mark's behaviour was not up to scratch", he replied "and that did not reflect well on us".
He says he viewed a photograph of Dianne laying on the floor naked, having defecated, after having sex with Wilhelm, and knew something was wrong. He told Wilhelm to check her pulse to see if she was ok, because she was Wilhelm's guest. Wilhelm couldn't find a pulse. Then, "I said: 'Mate, I think you should get a doctor or something. It is not my problem'," Mr Pantic said. But, more than an hour passed before Mr Wilhelm made the call.
Pantic says, "I received mail threats through the post. I received threats from people in the street, who said that, "you should be in jail, you should all die'," he said.
The lawyer for Dianne Brimble's family, James Stevens, rose late today to reveal Petar Pantic requested a meeting with the Brisbane woman's sister and mother. He told the court, "He said he was very sorry that he didn't do more... wished Alma and Betty all the best for the future... very sorry for what they'd been through."
Dragan Losic Tesifies Again
September 14, 2006 Losic testifies again. Losic told the coronial inquest into Dianne Brimble's death that he had met the Brisbane mother of three at the ship's disco bar while getting a drink at about 3.30am on the morning after the ship sailed. He talked to her for about five minutes then went back to sit down with members of his group. About 10 or 15 minutes later, "She approached us and asked if she could could join our circle and if she could sit next to me," he said.
Losic, who in 1979 was tried and acquitted of rape, said he did not buy her any drinks.
Previous witnesses have told the inquest Mr Losic offered them fantasy on the morning Brimble died. Passenger Tanya Power said Mr Losic had entered her room and made unwelcome advances, including trying to hug and kiss her.
The Inquest Resumes - November 6, 2006
Yesterday, in Brisbane, Mrs Brimble's family and legal representative made a public appeal for South Australian and NSW police to provide any outstanding documentation. They claimed the SA police had withheld information from the inquest, a claim a police spokeswoman strongly denies.
They say SA Police Commissioner Mal Hyde - on behalf of the force - should go further.
He should either write, call or organise to meet personally with members of the Brimble family to satisfy them that there is not a shred of evidence left in the possession of the SA police force that may assist in discovering the full story behind Dianne Brimble's death. The family says they have lived with the pain of her high-profile death for long enough and deserves a non-ambiguous final closure.
Jocelyn Greenway
Four fellow passengers - Roger and Jocelyn Greenway and Luciano and Glenda Leonarduzzi - are due to give evidence about what they saw in cabin D182 aboard the Pacific Sky.
Counsel assisting the inquest, Charissa Loukas, told Mr Losic that Mrs Greenway had described in a statement how she walked past the cabin's open door between 5.30am and 6.30am on the morning Mrs Brimble's body was found and saw several naked men inside. "What she saw was that the carpet in the hallway there was wet and that it stunk," Ms Loukas said. She saw that the room appeared to be full of naked bodies. This is the first indiction that there may have been a gang rape of the dying Dianne Brimble.
Mr Losic said he had been on the top deck of the ship watching the sunrise with a group of people from about 5am until 6 or 6.30am. Losic, was repeatedly pressed by Deputy NSW State Coroner Jacqueline Milledge on the issues of his past conflicting evidence, and his lack of solid facts and vagueness. She said, "He's got to be more specific."
At one stage Ms Milledge forced Losic to sit in silence for ten minutes while he thought about why he had given varied accounts to the inquest.
Jocelyn Greenway told the inquest into Mrs Brimble's death of her distress at seeing a group of naked people inside the Pacific Sky cabin just hours before. She told the inquest she had been staying three doors from the cabin where Mrs Brimble died.
Her testimony paints a foul picture of a pack of men behaving like wild animals instead of humans.
Mrs Greenway said passengers in her group were awaken by party noises. One of those in her party walked down the hall to investigate, walked past the cabin, D182, about 5.30am or 6am. The person came back, and got the rest to come see the scene in D182. She went down the hall with her travelling companions Luciano and Glenda Leonarduzzi and was horrified by what they saw through the open doorway. "There was just a heap of people in there."
Mrs Greenway said she only glanced at the room for about three seconds because she was so distressed by the scenes inside, including one naked man who was on his knees with his bottom sticking up in the air and his genitals clearly visible. At least three naked people were on the cabin floor, as well as others lying in bunk beds.
Mrs Greenway, a Queensland-based real estate agent, said she and Mrs Leonarduzzi tried to alert a P&O staff member, but the man "didn't want to know".
Mrs Greenway also told of how, while standing outside the cabin in her pyjamas, she stepped in what she believed was carpet soaked with urine. She said the carpet in the hallway outside the men's cabin door had a horrible smell. She said it smelled like urine.
Around 7am, Mrs Greenway, her husband Roger and the Leonarduzzis walked along the corridor again and saw two "rough looking" men dressed only in shorts standing inside cabin 182. One of the men was Mark Wilhelm, one of eight men of interest to the inquest and who was photographed having sex with Mrs Brimble in the cabin.
