Another update…
The text message sent to Brenda Street arrived one morning around 11am, succinct and stripped of emotion. 'This is Ryan Bane, Sarm's boyfriend,' it read. 'Please ring me.'
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Heartbreaking. From your link:
The text message sent to Brenda Street arrived one morning around 11am, succinct and stripped of emotion.
'This is Ryan Bane, Sarm's boyfriend,' it read. 'Please ring me.'
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He said he'd fallen asleep and woken up because the anchor alarm — which sounds when movement is detected — had gone off.
'Once he'd checked it, he said he went down to bed — and she wasn't there,' Brenda recalls. 'He said he'd phoned the police. I felt totally numb.'
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Despite calling the police at 2.30am, half an hour after he says he found Sarm gone, Bane didn't follow police advice to contact coastguards, so a search and rescue could begin, until Sarm had been missing for more than nine hours.
Both Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) officers and the U.S. coastguard claim he then refused them permission to fully search his 47 ft catamaran. Within days, Bane, who charged clients £1,800 a day to charter his yacht and who police said 'declined' to be interviewed, had hired lawyer David Cattie, who has also represented Ghislaine Maxwell.
Cattie said coastguards had conducted an 'on-site inspection of the vessel' and an 'interview without limitation', and that Bane, 'devastated' and 'heartbroken' at Sarm's disappearance, had handed over her personal belongings including her phone, iPad and passport to the police.
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Currently believed to be in Grenada,
he is now described by VIPD police as 'a person of interest' but not a suspect in what is still classified as a missing persons case.
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Sarm messaged her mother to say Bane had picked her up from the airport at St Thomas, the neighbouring island to St John, on Valentine's Day last year. It was her last message.
On March 7, Sarm and Bane went for dinner at the restaurant 420 To Center, where they were seen by witnesses. Bane says they returned to the yacht anchored in Frank Bay via a dinghy at 10pm — although police can't be sure Sarm returned to the Siren Song at all.
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While Bane's lawyer David Cattie — who declined the Mail's request for comment this month — said coastguards conducted an 'on-site inspection of the vessel', the coastguards claim they, and the police, were then 'denied access to the interior' hours after Sarm's disappearance.
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She resisted the urge to contact Bane again — 'I wanted to scream and shout at him' — until last October, she could hold back no longer and sent him a text demanding: 'Where's my daughter?' It was then she found out he had blocked her mobile number.
More at the link. Apparently Last November, Bane was moored at Grenada's Le Phare Bleu Marina, enjoying a 'playboy lifestyle'. He renamed his yacht Orion's Belt and put it up for sale at £220,000.
Sarm's mom considers the coast guard and police useless. I agree. Oddle, Bane told her Sarm was wearing a black dress with flowers that night but video she watched showed Sarm in either a skirt or shorts and a T shirt. She also said LE stopped the video early as Bane and Sarm were about to step down the dinghy dock. VIPD refuses to release the full video.
Locals refuse to speak to Sarm's mom; not even a worker at the bar Sarm and Bane ate at that night. At this point I doubt the family will ever get answers and it's likely Bane will go about his business - until he gets pissed at another woman. Leopards don't change their spots. MOO.
