US Virgin Islands SARM HESLOP: Missing from boat moored off St. John, US Virgin Islands - 7 March 2021 - Age 41

Hunt for missing Brit after boyfriend told cops 'she may have fallen' from yacht

A search has been launched for Sarm Heslop who was last seen on the 47ft Siren Song in the US Virgin Islands on March 7 - her boyfriend believes she may have fallen overboard

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Hunt for missing Brit woman after boyfriend told cops 'she might have fallen' from yacht​

An urgent search is underway for a British woman who has gone missing from her yacht in the Caribbean.

Sarm Heslop, 41, was last seen onboard the 47ft Siren Song in the US Virgin Islands last Sunday (March 7) - and her boyfriend told cops she might have fallen overboard in the night.

Her passport and all of her belongings were left on the boat where the pair were living, which was estimated to be worth around £500,000.

The vessel, which her partner owns, is rented out to charter guests who she takes on a tour of the islands for around £5,000-a-week.

A U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said that Sector San Juan received a call from him on Sunday, around 11.46 am.

The pair had gone to sleep at around 10 pm, and “at 2 am he woke up and realised that she was not on board.”

Nancy Grace questions boyfriend’s ’10-hour delay’ in reporting girlfriend missing from his catamaran

CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says she is “curious” about several aspects of the case of former airline attendant Sarm Heslop, who has been missing since she disappeared from her boyfriend’s catamaran while it was moored in the US Virgin Islands overnight on March 7. “I’m questioning the timing...

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Nancy Grace questions boyfriend’s ’10-hour delay’ in reporting girlfriend missing from his catamaran​

CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says she is “curious” about several aspects of the case of former airline attendant Sarm Heslop, who has been missing since she disappeared from her boyfriend’s catamaran while it was moored in the US Virgin Islands overnight on March 7.

“I’m questioning the timing here,” Grace told Fox News, noting that the 41-year-old Heslop’s boyfriend, identified as American Ryan Bane, 47, told authorities the couple went to St John for dinner that evening then returned to the 47-foot catamaran, Siren Song, at about 10 p.m.

“He says they watch a movie and fall asleep,” Grace said. “At around 2 a.m., he says, he hears an alarm, the anchor alarm alerting him the ship is getting away from its mooring.”

At that point, Bane told police, he discovered Heslop, a Brit, was missing. Her belongings — including her cell phone — were still on board, and the boat’s dinghy was still there, as CrimeOnline previously reported. But the Virgin Islands Daily News reported that Bane didn’t call the US Coast Guard until almost noon on Monday.


MEDIA - SARM HESLOP: Missing from boat moored off US Virgin Islands since 7 March 2021 - Age 41

 

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"When I received the phone call from Bane that Sarm was missing, I had a complete meltdown, crying, screaming and then a numbness," Street said. "I still cannot understand the time lost in contacting the Virgin Islands Coastguard. If I had woken to find my partner missing, off a boat, I would have shouted and screamed to attract attention, even let off a flare. ... Why didn’t he? I will never forgive Bane for failing to protect my daughter."

US Virgin Islands missing Sarm Heslop: Parents ‘want, need and demand’ answers 5 months after disappearance | Fox News

The UK woman was reported missing in March from the Siren Song, a yacht owned by boyfriend Ryan Bane

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I have so much compassion for her parents, we always concentrate so much on child victims, but adult victims are also children to their parents...❤...so sorry for them and how frustrating!

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Sarm Heslop: US Virgin Islands police say they were denied search warrant for Siren Song catamaran

U.S. Virgin Islands police said Tuesday that they have sought more than search warrant for the 47-foot Siren Song catamaran belonging to Ryan Bane in connection with the disappearance of his U.K. girlfriend, Sarm Heslop – but the court denied them each time.

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Sarm Heslop: US Virgin Islands police say they were denied search warrant for Siren Song catamaran​

U.S. Virgin Islands police said Tuesday that they have sought more than one search warrant for the 47-foot Siren Song catamaran belonging to Ryan Bane in connection with the disappearance of his U.K. girlfriend, Sarm Heslop – but the court denied them each time.

"The Virgin Islands Police Department sought a search warrant for the Siren Song on multiple occasions, but was denied by the courts," department spokesman Toby Derima told Fox News. "Ryan Bane, through his attorney, refused to have any search conducted of the vessel. We will continue to pursue all legal means to obtain a search warrant for the vessel."


On Tuesday, he said it was "strange" that a judge would turn down a warrant request, especially more than once.

"If the boat belonged to Joe Blow, or the boyfriend, or even her, but she didn't go missing from the boat, maybe then they wouldn't be able to get a search warrant," he said. "But she went missing, probably, from the boat. There's enough probable cause there to get a search warrant."

The U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a Fox News request for comment on the denied warrant requests.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Missing Sarm Heslop: Parents of UK woman who disappeared in US Virgin Islands ask for more help from homeland

The parents of missing United Kingdom woman Sarm Heslop, who vanished in the U.S. Virgin Islands five months ago, are pleading for their government to do more to help the stalled investigation.

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Missing Sarm Heslop: Parents of UK woman who disappeared in US Virgin Islands ask for more help from homeland​

The parents of missing United Kingdom woman Sarm Heslop, who vanished in the U.S. Virgin Islands five months ago, are pleading for their government to do more to help the stalled investigation.

"Over the past five months we have endured a living hell trying to piece together what may have happened to our daughter," Brenda Street and Peter Heslop wrote in a letter to U.K. Secretary of State Dominic Raab.

U.K. authorities said in April that they were assisting local police, as is the FBI.

"Disappointingly, we feel that there has been only minimal support from the U.K. government and the Foreign Commonwealth Development Office, and we are now requesting your involvement to do all you can to assist us," they wrote. "Her case deserves a full and thorough investigation, and as the key witness to Sarm’s last known whereabouts, Mr. Bane should speak further with the [U.S. Virgin Islands Police Department]."

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Desperate family of missing Brit offer £7200 reward 6 months after disappearance

Sarm, 41, went missing on a night out with her wealthy lover in the US Virgin Islands in March and hasn't been seen since

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Sarm Heslop's desperate loved ones offer £7200 reward 6 months after Brit vanished​

The search for missing Sarm Heslop has been boosted by a £7,200 reward to mark the six-month anniversary of her disappearance.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Yacht where missing Brit was staying for sale - with infamous name scrubbed off

Missing Brit Sarm Heslop was living on the catamaran Siren Song when she vanished - it is now being sold for £220,000 by her wealthy lover Ryan Bane

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Sarm Heslop: Yacht where missing Brit was staying for sale - with name scrubbed off​

The yacht Sarm Heslop was living on when she went missing is up for sale – with its infamous name scrubbed off the hull.

Catamaran Siren Song is being sold for £220,000 by wealthy owner Ryan Bane, Sarm’s former lover, who claims she vanished from the 47ft boat as he slept.

Bane, 44, is selling the Leopard 47 through a broker on the Caribbean island of Grenada, where he now lives.

He has scrubbed its name from the hull and the ad makes no mention of its role in her disappearance.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Since I was gone for some time, I did not see some of these posts on this case until just now.

The judge keeps denying search warrants and now the boat is for sale?? WTH??

I get they need enough cause for warrants but wouldn't think it would be too hard here.... What is his reason??

Do we have a case here of money and power talk??

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

I'm sure it's been well scrubbed of any potential evidence by this point. But if I was someone with loads of money to spare, I'd buy the damn thing and hand it over to authorities.

 

[GrandmaBear]

Great idea. I wish between us we had that money to just spare. I don't either...

I don't know what it takes for a warrant but he was the last seen with her, they were together last, he is refusing access, etc. To me I would think it would be enough for some kind of warrant... But, as you say, I'm sure it has been scrubbed more than once by now...

Sad case. And a judge who refuses warrants and I'd like to know why...

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Parents of missing woman fly to Caribbean for answers one year on | ITV News

Sarm Heslop, 41, disappeared from a catamaran, owned by her American boyfriend Ryan Bane, while off the coast of St John in the early hours of March 8 2021. | ITV News Meridian

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Parents of missing Southampton woman Sarm Heslop fly to Caribbean for answers one year on​

The parents of a woman from Southampton who went missing from a catamaran in the US Virgin Islands one year ago have flown to the Caribbean in the hope of finding answers.

Sarm Heslop, 41, disappeared from the catamaran Siren Song, owned and operated by her American boyfriend Ryan Bane, while off the coast of St John in the early hours of March 8 2021.

The boat has never been searched and Mr Bane has not been questioned by police.

Her parents, Peter Heslop and Brenda Street, hope that by being on the island they might be able to piece together their daughter's last known movements.


Vicki Mogridge-Percy, a close friend of Sarm, said: "A year on, we want to say that we're no further on, it's an absolute nightmare, it's not going anywhere.

"It's still classified as a missing persons case, she shouldn't be a missing person, she's not disappeared of her own fruition and a year on the Constitution of the United States means that he's [Mr Bane] never been interviewed, he is a person of interest and that boat has never been searched and that is a crime scene.

"This is not moving anywhere and we have no idea how that's ever going to change."

Kate Vernalls, also a close friend of Sarm, said: "We haven't seen any evidence of any searching done by Ryan.

"She lived on the boat, they were in a relationship. We would have liked to have seen evidence of him out handing out missing person flyers, going out helping with the dives, helping the coastguard, but we haven't seen any of that.

"It's incredibly frustrating to be here in the UK, where she is from, and having to continue our searches but with the US legal system and the way it is, we are at a stale point.

"We're at a point where we can't progress any further without the assistance of the US legal system and at the moment our hands are tied."

 

[GrandmaBear]

Parents of missing woman fly to Caribbean for answers one year on | ITV News

Sarm Heslop, 41, disappeared from a catamaran, owned by her American boyfriend Ryan Bane, while off the coast of St John in the early hours of March 8 2021. | ITV News Meridian

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Parents of missing Southampton woman Sarm Heslop fly to Caribbean for answers one year on​

The parents of a woman from Southampton who went missing from a catamaran in the US Virgin Islands one year ago have flown to the Caribbean in the hope of finding answers.

Sarm Heslop, 41, disappeared from the catamaran Siren Song, owned and operated by her American boyfriend Ryan Bane, while off the coast of St John in the early hours of March 8 2021.

The boat has never been searched and Mr Bane has not been questioned by police.

Her parents, Peter Heslop and Brenda Street, hope that by being on the island they might be able to piece together their daughter's last known movements.


Vicki Mogridge-Percy, a close friend of Sarm, said: "A year on, we want to say that we're no further on, it's an absolute nightmare, it's not going anywhere.

"It's still classified as a missing persons case, she shouldn't be a missing person, she's not disappeared of her own fruition and a year on the Constitution of the United States means that he's [Mr Bane] never been interviewed, he is a person of interest and that boat has never been searched and that is a crime scene.

"This is not moving anywhere and we have no idea how that's ever going to change."

Kate Vernalls, also a close friend of Sarm, said: "We haven't seen any evidence of any searching done by Ryan.

"She lived on the boat, they were in a relationship. We would have liked to have seen evidence of him out handing out missing person flyers, going out helping with the dives, helping the coastguard, but we haven't seen any of that.

"It's incredibly frustrating to be here in the UK, where she is from, and having to continue our searches but with the US legal system and the way it is, we are at a stale point.

"We're at a point where we can't progress any further without the assistance of the US legal system and at the moment our hands are tied."

With no time to keep up with any cases, for some reason the other day this one crossed my mind and it isn't old and it isn't even that known. I think I was thinking of recent ones trying to recall that no one seems to be doing anything on... And wondering... It was just a blip of a thought...

And here it is... The legal system. There are good in it but hands tied but what is it with cases like these... I can't imagine having someone missing and likely dead... Red tape... Time... Rules... Bureaucracy. But the criminals don't have the same rules whether in war or individual murder but the other side has to play by them...

JMO this woman is dead and he did it. No one should be convicted without enough evidence but search warrants shouldn't be a problem. Last known to see her. Jmo.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

US Virgin Islands missing woman's friends demand release of previously undisclosed surveillance video

Friends and family of missing Sarm Heslop, who vanished from a catamaran in 2021, say U.S. Virgin Islands police have withheld video of her last known whereabouts.

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Published October 31, 2022 2:33pm EDT

Former U.K. flight attendant Sarm Heslop went missing from her American boyfriend’s luxury catamaran in the U.S. Virgin Islands more than a year ago – and her friends and family are now demanding police there release previously undisclosed surveillance video of her last known whereabouts.

Police showed the video to Heslop’s parents in March 2022, around one year after she vanished. But when they asked for a copy of the video, police denied their request, according to a statement released Monday morning.

"During the meeting Sarm’s parents were shown CCTV footage of Sarm and Ryan after they left the bar 420 to Center, despite previously advising that on the night Sarm went missing there was no CCTV footage recorded!" the statement reads. "Sarm’s Mother, Brenda Street, has confirmed that the footage was stopped by the US Virgin Islands Police before the end of the recording."

 

[GrandmaBear]

US Virgin Islands missing woman's friends demand release of previously undisclosed surveillance video

Friends and family of missing Sarm Heslop, who vanished from a catamaran in 2021, say U.S. Virgin Islands police have withheld video of her last known whereabouts.

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Published October 31, 2022 2:33pm EDT

Former U.K. flight attendant Sarm Heslop went missing from her American boyfriend’s luxury catamaran in the U.S. Virgin Islands more than a year ago – and her friends and family are now demanding police there release previously undisclosed surveillance video of her last known whereabouts.

Police showed the video to Heslop’s parents in March 2022, around one year after she vanished. But when they asked for a copy of the video, police denied their request, according to a statement released Monday morning.

"During the meeting Sarm’s parents were shown CCTV footage of Sarm and Ryan after they left the bar 420 to Center, despite previously advising that on the night Sarm went missing there was no CCTV footage recorded!" the statement reads. "Sarm’s Mother, Brenda Street, has confirmed that the footage was stopped by the US Virgin Islands Police before the end of the recording."

While often not all is shared even with family in an investigation, why would you lie to the parents who CLEARLY were not involved and go so far as to say there was no footage when there was?? There is something wrong right there. I could maybe understand not release it to them or a copy if investigation is going on but not the lying. And when you then add refusing this TO that lying, one has to wonder.

And again I can maybe see a reason for not sharing all of it with them while investigating but adding it to the denial one existed doesn't sit right.

There may even be a good reason for not releasing now. They wouldn't need the parents sharing it publicly or with too many or anything if key to the investigation.

What it says to me is there isn't adequate communication to the victim's family. Dylan Rounds case is like that in some respects. If the family was assured of the reasons they can't have it, can't see it or why it can't be provided and THAT the case is being worked on and informed of progress or what is being waited for, then most families understand and would NEVER want to negatively affect the investigation for justice for their loved one.

So we had a judge in this case who apparently wouldn't issue a warrant to search the boat.

But something so good about this video to deny its existence, then show the parents only part and now refuse to provide it. If there is something so good and vaulable on it then why wasn't it used to get a warrant or why would the judge not grant one?

It's not a good look and of course is going to make one wonder about the authorities, etc. This case is well over a year in more like 1.5 and headed for two. And NOTHING.

Maybe its okay for LE to do that and they are required to do no differently BUT it isn't always the wisest choice. Families get to wondering why they can't talk, raise public awareness, demand answers, etc. The online thing can go too far and cause a lot of damage to families and cases BUT this case has NO attention and maybe it is time someone took it up or yelled about it.

I actually figured since it had gone quiet that the family had become okay with LE and the investigation. Apparently not. Or they gave them a chance and now have had it.

What does something like this look like for LE whether legit or not? That they are covering for the rich boyfriend or the bar or both and to heck with the victim and her family.

NOT a good look.

They should explain the reasons publicly for denying this if there is reason. And state they are actively investigating. And be held to it by the public for the family. If the parents are at the point they want that. Clearly something was said about it for it to make news now.

 

[Guess Who]

While often not all is shared even with family in an investigation, why would you lie to the parents who CLEARLY were not involved and go so far as to say there was no footage when there was?? There is something wrong right there. I could maybe understand not release it to them or a copy if investigation is going on but not the lying. And when you then add refusing this TO that lying, one has to wonder.

And again I can maybe see a reason for not sharing all of it with them while investigating but adding it to the denial one existed doesn't sit right.

There may even be a good reason for not releasing now. They wouldn't need the parents sharing it publicly or with too many or anything if key to the investigation.

What it says to me is there isn't adequate communication to the victim's family. Dylan Rounds case is like that in some respects. If the family was assured of the reasons they can't have it, can't see it or why it can't be provided and THAT the case is being worked on and informed of progress or what is being waited for, then most families understand and would NEVER want to negatively affect the investigation for justice for their loved one.

So we had a judge in this case who apparently wouldn't issue a warrant to search the boat.

But something so good about this video to deny its existence, then show the parents only part and now refuse to provide it. If there is something so good and vaulable on it then why wasn't it used to get a warrant or why would the judge not grant one?

It's not a good look and of course is going to make one wonder about the authorities, etc. This case is well over a year in more like 1.5 and headed for two. And NOTHING.

Maybe its okay for LE to do that and they are required to do no differently BUT it isn't always the wisest choice. Families get to wondering why they can't talk, raise public awareness, demand answers, etc. The online thing can go too far and cause a lot of damage to families and cases BUT this case has NO attention and maybe it is time someone took it up or yelled about it.

I actually figured since it had gone quiet that the family had become okay with LE and the investigation. Apparently not. Or they gave them a chance and now have had it.

What does something like this look like for LE whether legit or not? That they are covering for the rich boyfriend or the bar or both and to heck with the victim and her family.

NOT a good look.

They should explain the reasons publicly for denying this if there is reason. And state they are actively investigating. And be held to it by the public for the family. If the parents are at the point they want that. Clearly something was said about it for it to make news now.

I'd be looking into who was paid off...

 

[GrandmaBear]

I'd be looking into who was paid off...

Yeah it isn't sounding very above board. But I know it can often come across that way and they just share nothing and aren't good with the families. But this one, yes, there is wealth involved and an area also dependent on tourists... I have RARELY seen a crime in such an area or even on a cruise ship that doesn't seem like it isn't being covered up. Seen many. That I still wonder about.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Mother of missing Sarm Heslop pours out anguish in first interview

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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'After Sarm vanished from her lover's luxury yacht, I texted him to ask where she was... but he'd blocked my number': In her first shattering interview, the mother of a British former air hostess who disappeared in the Caribbean pours out months of anguish​

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.'

From her cosy terrace in Ongar, Essex, Brenda dialled the number via a WhatsApp video call, to see Bane — to whom she had not spoken before but who had been dating her daughter for eight months — sitting aboard Siren Song, his yacht anchored off the coast of St John, an island in the Caribbean.

'He said, 'Sarm's missing'. I said: 'What do you mean?' she recalls. Bane, 45, told Brenda that he and Sarm had been for a meal on the tiny U.S. Virgin island the previous evening, before coming back to the yacht, docked 120 ft from the shore, and watching a film.

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.'


It was around 6am local time when Bane texted Brenda to ask her to video-call him, and he told her Sarm was missing. 'Immediately — I don't know why — I said: 'But you loved her,' ' Brenda recalls. 'And he said 'yes, I love her,' but all the time he was speaking he wasn't really looking at me. He didn't seem agitated or upset.'

Later that day, Brenda messaged him to ask: 'Where's my daughter?' He responded, 'I'm out there looking.' Brenda and her ex-husband Peter, 79, who lives in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, reported Sarm's disappearance to the Foreign Office and the UK police.

Bane's attitude floored Brenda. 'Why wouldn't you clear your name?' she asks. 'He's left it open for people to throw daggers at him.' Within a fortnight of Sarm's disappearance, Corie Stevenson, Bane's ex-wife who was married to him between 2008 and 2014, gave an interview in which she revealed how he'd assaulted her after a night out drinking, slamming her face to the ground and leaving her with a chipped tooth.

Brenda was horrified: 'Didn't that give the police another reason to bring him in, to push more?'

Yet despite the FBI joining the VIPD to help in the hunt for Sarm — a search that deployed divers, drones and dogs — authorities were powerless to prevent Bane sailing off at the end of March.

'At the beginning I couldn't talk about Sarm at all. It hurt too much,' says Brenda, who was prescribed antidepressants, suffered panic attacks and became agoraphobic. 'I wouldn't answer the door. I didn't sleep much. I felt guilty for waking up.'

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.


Yet there is scant contact from the VIPD or Foreign Office these days. 'The last email I had [from the Foreign Office], last week, they said they were trying to set up six-monthly meetings,' says Brenda. 'It's unacceptable. I need to know someone is doing something. We've got so many unanswered questions.'

The question she would ask Bane, had he not blocked her number, remains the same: 'Where is my daughter?'

 

[Summer_Breeze]

911 call reporting UK woman Sarm Heslop missing from US Virgin Islands was never recorded, family says

A 911 call placed by a Michigan man reporting his UK girlfriend missing from the US Virgin Islands was never recorded, the family of Sarm Heslop revealed Tuesday.

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Published March 7, 2023 10:30am EST
By Michael Ruiz | Fox News

A 911 call placed by a Michigan man reporting his U.K. girlfriend missing was never recorded, her family revealed Tuesday, the latest apparent misstep in the case nearly two years after her disappearance in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Sarm Heslop's then-boyfriend, 46-year-old Ryan Bane, reported her missing from his 47-foot catamaran the Siren Song on March 8, 2021.

Heslop, a former flight attendant, linked up with Bane in the Caribbean and was working as a cook alongside him as he chartered the vessel.

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"The inconsistencies in this investigation have troubled me from the start," Heslop's mother, Brenda Street, said in a statement Tuesday. She is asking British authorities to intervene in the investigation.

Police showed the video to Heslop’s parents in March 2022, around one year after she vanished. But when they asked for a copy of the video, police denied their request.

According to her parents, the version of the video they were shown ended before the couple got into their dinghy.

"We have been told that the CCTV wasn’t working in the local area due to a power outage on the island," Street said. "And now we discover that the 911 call Ryan made to the Coast Guard was never recorded! Something doesn’t add up."

 

[Summer_Breeze]

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2024-03-03/mother-believes-missing-daughter-was-murdered-after-vanishing-from-yacht

Sunday 3 March 2024 at 11:38am

The mother of a 41-year-old woman who went missing from a yacht in the US Virgin Islands three years ago now believes her daughter was murdered.

Sarm Heslop, from Southampton, Hampshire, went missing from the Siren Song, a catamaran owned and operated by her American boyfriend, Ryan Bane, off the coast of St John in the early hours of March 8, 2021.

Her mother Brenda Street, 67, told The People newspaper: “I don’t believe Sarm just went missing.

"I believe she was murdered. I want justice for her.

“I want to bring her home so I know where she is – she deserves that.”

After three years without answers, Ms Street, of Ongar, Essex, says she feels “let down” by police on the Caribbean tourist hotspot.

The family now have an investigator, a former Metropolitan Police commander of homicide and serious crime, who is helping them look into the case as they await updates from the force on the island.

Ms Street, who has previously travelled to the island as part of the search for her daughter, told the paper: “There’s too many things that don’t make sense and don’t add up.

“When we went to the island, people wouldn’t speak to us about Sarm and on the posters asking for information someone had gone round and scrubbed out the number to call.”

She is calling on Mr Bane to provide the police with everything he knows about her daughter’s disappearance.

Under US law, Mr Bane, the last person known to have seen Miss Heslop and described as a “person of interest” by police, can stay silent and officers must show “probable cause” to get a search warrant.

His lawyer David Cattie said in a statement to the newspaper: “Mr Bane is heartbroken over Sarm’s disappearance.

"We certainly understand and empathise with her mother’s pain and frustration.

“Mr Bane called 911 immediately upon waking and finding Sarm was not on board.

"He took his dinghy to shore to meet with Virgin Islands Police Department that night and called the US Coast Guard the next day when no-one appeared at his boat.

"He also had the US Coast Guard on his vessel twice following Sarm’s disappearance.

“Later Mr Bane and I personally took all of Sarm’s belongings to the police, including all of her electronic devices.”

 

[GrandmaBear]

I've seen many an international case where it's as tourist destination, spot, etc. where we have someone from here go missing where justice never results, satisfactory answers come or there isn't a cover up or lack of a real investigation. Sadly.

I feel for her parents.

 

[Summer_Breeze]

MSN

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Story by Michael Ruiz
• 3h ago
After British flight attendant Sarm Heslop vanished from her boyfriend's luxurious catamaran, the 47-foot Siren Song, he sailed out of U.S. territorial waters and had the freezer replaced in Grenada, according to her family's private investigator.

Heslop was last seen alive three years ago Thursday, leaving a restaurant in the U.S. Virgin Islands with boyfriend Ryan Bane. Searches of land and sea came up empty, and despite the mystery surrounding her disappearance, police never searched the vessel.

David Johnston, a decorated former London homicide squad commander and hostage negotiator, is assisting Heslop's parents free of charge.

"We know he went to Grenada afterwards and had the freezer replaced on the boat. Why?" the Queen's Police Medal recipient pondered in a phone interview. "We know he had other parts of the forecabin replaced. Why?"

Those questions remain unanswered because local police failed to obtain a search warrant for the vessel before Bane sailed out of their jurisdiction and is believed to have sold it, Johnston said.

Johnston told Fox News Digital Heslop's parents now consider her the victim of foul play and not a missing person. But they have been cut off by the island's police and political leadership, he said.

"Sarm likely is dead, and her death was untimely and could have been a murder," he said. "It could've been an accident, but no one will speak with us."

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More at link. ~Summer

 

[GrandmaBear]

MSN

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Story by Michael Ruiz
• 3h ago
After British flight attendant Sarm Heslop vanished from her boyfriend's luxurious catamaran, the 47-foot Siren Song, he sailed out of U.S. territorial waters and had the freezer replaced in Grenada, according to her family's private investigator.

Heslop was last seen alive three years ago Thursday, leaving a restaurant in the U.S. Virgin Islands with boyfriend Ryan Bane. Searches of land and sea came up empty, and despite the mystery surrounding her disappearance, police never searched the vessel.

David Johnston, a decorated former London homicide squad commander and hostage negotiator, is assisting Heslop's parents free of charge.

"We know he went to Grenada afterwards and had the freezer replaced on the boat. Why?" the Queen's Police Medal recipient pondered in a phone interview. "We know he had other parts of the forecabin replaced. Why?"

Those questions remain unanswered because local police failed to obtain a search warrant for the vessel before Bane sailed out of their jurisdiction and is believed to have sold it, Johnston said.

Johnston told Fox News Digital Heslop's parents now consider her the victim of foul play and not a missing person. But they have been cut off by the island's police and political leadership, he said.

"Sarm likely is dead, and her death was untimely and could have been a murder," he said. "It could've been an accident, but no one will speak with us."

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More at link. ~Summer

I have little doubt of a single thing said here.