Category: Media Coverage

The Daily Mail: As Ryan Bane insists he has nothing to do with the disappearance of Sarm Heslop, an ex-lover tells her own troubling story: Ryan was a nasty, controlling drunk. I was lucky to get off his boat alive

From the moment she arrived, however, Alison realised she had made a big mistake. She claims the weeks she spent aboard the Siren Song were ‘unbearable’ and ‘awful’, so much so that, at one point, she wanted to take her own life. Read the full article at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-15195569/As-yachtsman-Ryan-Bane-insists-disappearance-Sarm-Heslop-ex-lover-tells-troubling-story-Ryan-nasty-controlling-drunk-lucky-boat-alive.html

The Daily Mail: ‘Ryan knows more than he’s telling us’ – She vanished from her boyfriend’s yacht in mysterious circumstances. Now her tearful friend insists he still has questions to answer

Then, 12 days ago, came an astonishing development – a 1,469-word broadside from Bane, uploaded online to defend his ‘reputation’ and the first time he’d broken his silence. In it, the American criticised ‘major omissions and misrepresentations’ in the documentary but made no outright denial he had harmed Sarm. In… Continue reading...

The Standard: ‘I didn’t murder her’: Boyfriend of missing British yachtswoman breaks silence four years after she vanished

“I wanted to protect myself and followed my attorney’s legal advice to safeguard my rights,” he said of his decision to hire a lawyer, decline questioning by police and prevent forensic experts from searching his vessel after his girlfriend’s disappearance. Read more at https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/ryan-bane-breaks-silence-missing-sarm-heslop-yacht-murder-b1249178.html

Cosmopolitan: Where is Ryan Bane, Sarm Heslop’s boyfriend, today after her disappearance from his boat?

A new BBC series, Missing in Paradise: Searching for Sarm, charts the sudden and worrying disappearance of former flight attendant, Sarm Heslop, who vanished from a charter yacht in the Virgin Islands belonging to her then-boyfriend, Ryan Bane, in 2021. Read the full Cosmopolitan article by Jennifer Savin at https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a66120420/ryan-bane-now/

The Sun: His eyes went black, I thought I was going to die…’ says ex of missing Sarm Heslop’s lover as new CCTV deepens mystery

Four years on from that night in March 2021, a new BBC documentary – Missing in Paradise: Searching for Sarm – aims to find answers to what really happened that night on the boat. As well as intriguing new CCTV footage from that night, the documentary also features a chilling… Continue reading...