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Could new CCTV finally solve mystery of missing British woman in Caribbean?

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CCTV showing missing woman Sarm Heslop walking on a jetty in the US Virgin Island's St John island.
New footage has been released of Sarm Heslop, just six hours before she vanished on her boyfriend’s yacht of the coast of St John island in the Caribbean (Picture: BBC/VIPD)

New footage could finally shine some light on the mysterious disappearance of a British woman in the Caribbean.

Sarm Heslop, 41, vanished from her boyfriend Ryan Bane’s yacht near St John in the US Virgin Islands on March 8, 2021.

The new footage shows the couple walking on a jetty in Cruz Bay before they board a dinghy to Bane’s 47ft, £500,000 Siren Song catamaran, just six hours before Sarm was reported missing.

Mr Bane, 49, has said that she must have either fallen overboard from the yacht or drowned while swimming as he was asleep.

The ex-wife of the man whose British girlfriend Sarm Heslop is missing after allegedly going overboard from a yacht in the US Virgin Islands. Corie Stevenson, 43, has spoken about her troubled five-year marriage to American charter boat skipper Ryan Bane, 44. Bane told Caribbean detectives he raised the alarm after discovering experienced transatlantic sailor Sarm was missing at 2am on Monday, March 8 following their return at 10am the previous evening from a local restaurant. Police said he called them at 2.30am and told him to ring the US Coast Guard. But that call was not put through until 11.46am A massive search involving divers and a helicopter failed to find any trace of Sarm, from Southampton. Bane is refusing to talk to cops and is preventing them searching the 47ft catamaran Siren Song, moored in a quiet bay in St John, US Virgin Islands. 22 Mar 2021 Pictured: Corie Stevenson and Ryan Bane on holiday before they married. Photo credit: MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342
Sarm with her boyfriend Ryan Bane, who was with her just hours before she went missing on his yacht (Picture: MEGA)

He noticed she was missing after being woken up by his anchor alarm at 2am.

However, he did not alert the coastguard until 11.46am the following morning.

Officers reported finding Mr Bane ‘heavily intoxicated’ and that he refused to allow them to search the boat and failed to provide paperwork.

Undated handout photo issued by FindSarm of Sarm Heslop, from Southampton, who went missing from the Siren Song, a catamaran owned and operated by her American boyfriend, Ryan Bane, while off the coast of St John in the US Virgin Islands in the early hours of March 8. Ms Helsop's parents, Peter Heslop and Brenda Street, have called for a full forensic examination of the vessel. Issue date: Friday July 23, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story MISSING VirginIslands. Photo credit should read: FindSarm/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
Sarm’s family and friends have vowed to keep looking for evidence in order to ‘lay her to rest’ (Picture: PA)

He is yet to be formally questioned by police, the Telegraph reports.

The new CCTV clip will be shown in an upcoming BBC documentary entitled Missing in Paradise: Searching for Sarm, which will air on Wednesday.

Sarm’s mother Brenda and her close friends have vowed to keep searching for information in order to ‘lay her to rest’.

Undated handout photo issued by FindSarm of Sarm Heslop, from Southampton, who went missing from the Siren Song, a catamaran owned and operated by her American boyfriend, Ryan Bane, while off the coast of St John in the US Virgin Islands in the early hours of March 8. Ms Helsop's parents, Peter Heslop and Brenda Street, have called for a full forensic examination of the vessel. Issue date: Friday July 23, 2021. PA Photo. See PA story MISSING VirginIslands. Photo credit should read: FindSarm/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
Sarm met Mr Bane seven months into a voyage across the Atlantic with friends (Picture: PA)

Accepting that her daughter is likely no longer alive, Brenda said she had not been able to ‘grieve properly’.

Sarm met Mr Bane in 2019, seven months into a sailing expedition across the Atlantic Ocean with friends.

The yacht owner rents out his luxury boat to wealthy clients.

The catamaran from which 41-year-old British woman Sarm Heslop is alleged to have disappeared in the US Virgin Islands. American boyfriend Ryan Bane reported her 'missing overboard in the early hours of March 8. His whereabouts are currently unknown but he has hired a lawyer who has refused to allow police to search the 47ft catamaran, Siren Song, moored off the idyllic island of St John. The couple returned to the oat after going to a restaurant in St John on 7 March. Bane told police he noticed she was missing at 2am the next day and feared she may have fallen overboard. Miss Heslop is a former flight attendant from Southampton. Mr Bane s father Frederick is aboard the boat but won t comment. Mr Bane's lawyer, David Cattie, said that his client immediately called 911 when he realised Miss Heslop was missing around 2:30 a.m., "then traveled to meet members of the Virgin Islands Police Department to give a statement regarding Sarm. Heslop's friends in the United Kingdom have been pushing for police to ramp up the investigation and search Bane's 47-foot catamaran. Andrew Baldwin, a friend of Heslop's, said this week that he finds it "incredibly difficult" to believe she fell off the boat. The Virgin Islands Police Department said it is continuing the search for Heslop, including conducting multiple searches daily and going through hours of surveillance video that may shed light on her disappearance. U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Ricardo Castrodad said that immediately after Heslop went missing, they searched the "shoreline, adjacent islands, and all the waters around and out to sea from where the vessel was located," which was about 50 yards offshore in Frank Bay. "We had a Coast Guard helicopter searching that afternoon and the search continued throughout the night," Castrodad told the local newspaper. "Conditions were excellent as far as visibility, sea state, and there were no signs of anyone in the water.". 21 Mar 2021 Pictured: the catamaran. Photo credit: MEGA TheMegaAgency.com +1 888 505 6342
Mr Bane’s £500,000 catamaran, named Siren Song, which he hired out to wealthy clients (Picture: MEGA)

While he claims the pair returned to the yacht at 10pm that night, the CCTV footage shows them boarding the dinghy for the boat at 8.45pm, a journey which would normally take just ten minutes.

Several hours passed before he reported her missing, a timeline labelled ‘suspicious’ by US Virgin Islands police commissioner Mario Brooks.

Mr Bane’s lawyer, David Cattie, who spoke to the BBC documentary, said there was no evidence the yacht owner was involved in Sarm’s disappearance and challenged any notion the sequence of events was unusual.

He said the timeline inconsistency could be explained by the stress Mr Bane was under.

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