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 fact, concern for his girlfriend appeared conspicuous only by its absence.
[Sarm’s friend] Kate who was in the Caribbean with Sarm when she disappeared, read it in shock. ‘Why talk to pick holes in a documentary when actually what we want him to do is talk to the police?
‘If you’ve got nothing to hide, why are you not speaking to them?’ she asks. ‘He knows more than he’s telling us.’
Sarm’s friend, Kate, has spoken at length to the Daily Mail.
Read the full story by Antonia Hoyle at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15150465/Saram-vanished-boyfriend-yacht-questions.html.