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“Sarm was missing. He said he’d been searching and that other people were out searching. And then I said something that now seems really stupid. I said: ‘But she loved you.’ It was almost like I was thinking without realising it: ‘What have you done?’ “I go over it in… Continue reading...

“The USVI police have made so many mistakes during this investigation and now seem to be doing nothing at all,” family and friends said in a statement. They added that they had come to the “horrendous conclusion” that Heslop would not be found alive but pledged to continue pushing for… Continue reading...

For over four months, they have waited for a breakthrough that might bring their daughter home after she was reported missing from a boat in the US Virgin Islands. The parents of Sarm Heslop, a former flight attendant from Southampton who sailed the Atlantic in search of new adventures, have… Continue reading...

US coastguard logs obtained by The Times noted that when Ryan Bane called them at 11.46am on March 8 to report that Sarm Heslop had disappeared from his vessel during the night, he told them that he had alerted others to see if anyone had spotted her. Yet the captains… Continue reading...

Sunday will mark four weeks since Sarm Heslop, 41, who came from Southampton, was last seen on the island of St John, hours before her boyfriend reported that she had disappeared from his yacht while he was sleeping. Read the full artilce by Jacqui Goddard at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sarm-heslops-family-tell-of-agony-four-weeks-after-she-disappeared-in-us-virgin-islands-pftxdztd0

A yachtsman who says his British girlfriend disappeared from his boat in the US Virgin Islands failed to raise the alarm with a neighbouring vessel anchored 100ft away, a fellow skipper said yesterday. “No one came and asked us, ‘Have you seen my girlfriend?’ Nothing.” Read the full story by… Continue reading...

Ryan Bane was “instructed” by the police at about 2.30am on March 8 that he should alert the US Coast Guard after he told them that his girlfriend, Sarm Heslop, had vanished from his yacht, Trevor Velinor told The Times. In the nine hours before Bane did so the police… Continue reading...

A private investigator has been called in to hunt for clues to the whereabouts of a British tourist missing in the US Virgin Islands. Friends or family of Sarm Heslop’s American boyfriend, Ryan Bane, have hired the detective as frustration mounts over the handling of the case by US Virgin… Continue reading...

Ryan Bane refused permission for a US coastguard team to look inside the staterooms of Siren Song, his 47ft catamaran, from which he says Sarm Heslop disappeared in the early hours of March 8. “They stayed on the upper aft deck and Mr Bane wasn’t wanting anyone to go inside… Continue reading...