July 17, 2007

DIANNE BRIMBLE'S DEATH INQUEST: WITNESS HEARD WOMAN YELL "NO!"




A stewardess heard a woman in a room shouting "no" hours before Dianne Brimble's naked body was found on the floor of the P&O cruise ship cabin. Stewardess Sussanna Pascua said she heard angry voices coming from cabin D182 - first the woman's loud "no", then a man saying "shut up".


Seconds earlier she had seen a drunken man in the nearby corridor, wearing only a lifejacket, marked D182, and a pair of white briefs. "When he asked me the time, he also lowered down his briefs," Ms. Pascua said, adding that man was still in the corridor when she heard the loud voices.


In her evidence, Ms. Pascua said when the man in the corridor asked the time and exposed himself, she told him: "Pull your briefs up first before I answer you". When she walked away, she heard the loud voices coming from cabin D182, but left after thinking the people inside were having a party.


Giving evidence at Glebe Coroners Court, via videolink from the Philippines, she identified the man from a group photo as Mark Wilhelm, who is one of the eight men named as persons of interest in the death of Diane Brimble.


Ms. Pascua said she went near cabin D182 again at 6:35 am, when she saw four men, who were laughing loudly, coming out of a door. She identified the men as Mr. Wilhelm and three other persons of interest - Matthew Slade, Ryan Kuchel and Letterio Silvestri.


Between 7.30 and 8:00 am, Ms. Pascua said she heard an alert and was told a woman had died in cabin D182. After she heard of the body being found in the cabin, Ms. Pascua said she felt scared and confused, thinking she could have done something when she heard the voices.

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