Cruise Ship Drug Overdose
Dianne Brimble - Drug Overdose - Death
P & O Cruise Lines - September 23, 2002
Mrs Greenway said she noticed Mr Wilhelm had a black eye and red marks, which she believed were scratches, on his cheeks. "I said to the man (Mr Wilhelm) it looked like he had enjoyed himself last night because of the black eye and scratches on his face," she said.
While sharing breakfast that morning, the couples heard Dianne Brimble being paged over the ship's intercom and then a "code blue" alert shortly after. Returning to their cabin after breakfast, the couples noticed a security guard outside cabin 182 and a padlock on its door.
Mrs Greenway said none of the four told any other ship staff or police, who later arrived on board to investigate Mrs Brimble's death, about what they had witnessed inside cabin 182. "I guess you don't want to get involved and we thought if the police interviewed us we would tell them what we knew," she said. "I didn't want to make a nuisance of myself."
November 15, 2006 - Sterin Gollan Testifies
Sterin Gollan today told Glebe Coroner's Court she was propositioned by Mark Wilhelm as she stood outside an open cabin on the Pacific Sky.
Ms Gollan said she and a friend were heading up to breakfast on the morning of September 24 when they came across a cabin with an open door. Gollan said she saw eight people in the cabin, some of them naked, and two were on the floor. Then, Mr Wilhelm "picked up his penis and said: 'Would you like some of this?' " This account of the naked people inside the cabin is confirmed by another witness
A senior NSW detective has been ordered to give evidence at the inquest into the cruise ship death of Dianne Brimble, amid unprecedented steps by police to keep key evidence secret.
Deputy state coroner Jacqueline Milledge on Monday rejected claims by Detective Senior Constable Erdinc Ozen, one of the first officers assigned to investigate Mrs Brimble's death, that he was medically unfit to face Glebe Coroner's Court.
Her order for him to appear on Friday came amid revelations that NSW and South Australian police want to keep secret a box of evidence about Mrs Brimble's death aboard a P&O cruise ship in 2002.
A NEW witness in the Dianne Brimble cruise death case has come forward with "valuable" information. Counsel assisting the inquest into the Queensland mother's death, Ron Hoenig, told Glebe Coroner's Court today that the person had contacted the legal team yesterday.
A solicitor and a police officer would have an urgent meeting next week with the witness, who had provided "some very valuable information", he said. "People are coming forward all the time in order to provide valuable information," Mr Hoenig said.
P&O said today it identified a group of former staff who also might provide new evidence to the inquest, which began in March. A lawyer for P&O told the inquest that the names of four Pacific Sky staff had been provided to the inquest, with the possibility of more to come.
Roger Greenway Testifies
Roger Greenway confirms the statements made by his wife, that the cabin Dianne Brimble died in was full of naked bodies, with the cabin door wide open. He says he just expected that police would interview him onboard, but that they never did.
He says he was first interviewed by police in July 2006, nearly four years after the incident.
New South Wales Detective Sen-Constable Erdinc Ozen
Meanwhile, a senior detective has been ordered to appear at the inquest into Ms Brimble's death, despite claims he is too ill to come to court.
Sen-Constable Ozen, the dancing detective, was criticised for dancing with potential witnesses on board the ship before interviewing them, has been on sick leave from the NSW Police since around the time the inquest began. Details about his illness are suppressed.
Deputy state coroner Jacqueline Milledge rejected NSW Det Sen-Constable Erdinc Ozen's request to be excused from giving evidence at Glebe Coroner's Court because of a medical condition. She said as the original officer in charge of the investigation into Mrs Brimble's death, his cross-examination was in the public interest. "He was absolutely crucial in the investigation," she said.
Counsel assisting the NSW police, Michael Spartalis, argued the detective's condition was serious and could be exacerbated if he was forced to appear in person to give evidence
Her decision has sparked moves by NSW police to consider taking the matter to the NSW Supreme Court.
Det Snr Const Ozen's lawyer has written to Ms Milledge urging her to allow his client to give his evidence behind closed doors.
Mrs Brimble's family have complained that a 52-page statement by the detective had not yet been tendered at the inquest and expressed concerns about a possible police cover-up.
The inquest has previously been told Det Snr Const Ozen was photographed posing with P&O staff enjoying a drink while he was aboard the Pacific Sky, investigating Mrs Brimbles' death.
November 15, 2006
Kathleen Ann Taylor, night manager on the P&0 cruise ship at the time of Mrs Brimble's death, denied giving Mark Wilhelm any key to a private cabin. A passenger onboard, said that Wilhelm had a key to a cabin, and he took her there to have sex after Brimble's death. Taylor suggested that Wilhelm "may" have stolen the cabin key, as the keys are laying inside the cabin on a table, for passengers to pick up once they arrive at their cabin.
Luciano Leonarduzzi testified that Wilhelm's cabin was a mess and full of naked people when he went by and glanced inside the cabin while the door was open.
Tracey Ann Muscat Testifies
Tracey Ann Muscat today became the second witness to tell the court that she heard a woman's voice saying "I'm not like that" the night before Mrs Brimble's body was found. "I heard her saying 'I'm not like that, I'm not like that,' " Ms Muscat said.
Ms Muscat said she saw Mark Wilhem, Dragan Losic, Leo Silvestri and Sakeleros "Charlie" Kambouris in a corridor as she and others made their way to breakfast about 8am on September 24, 2002. It was at breakfast that Ms Muscat heard a coded message over the ship's public address system. The inquest has been told that the message alerted staff to a medical emergency after Mrs Brimble was found on the floor of a cabin. She said the four were acting suspicously. We all made comments that they looked really suspicious. What were they doing there? She said she had seen a number of men in the corridor who were "trying to see something but didn't want to be seen.”
Muscat also told the inquest of a conversation another woman had with Mr Losic in which he allegedly said Mrs Brimble had "died sucking my c---". The woman who had that conversation with Mr Losic had relayed his comments to Ms Muscat's friend, who in turn told her, she said.
