Missing Sarm Heslop’s lover is spotted ‘without care in world’ on yacht in Barbados as 41-year-old Briton’s family remain ‘desperate’ for answers eight months after she vanished
- Ryan Bane, 44, is ‘the only person of interest’ in disappearance, police have said
- Heslop, 41, vanished on March 8, 2021 from Bane’s boat off the US Virgin Islands
- She was last seen March 7 leaving a restaurant with Bane on the island of St John
The boyfriend of missing British woman Sarm Heslop has been spotted on a yacht in Barbados.
Ryan Bane, 44, is the only person of interest in the case but has not surfaced since detectives admitted losing track of him in early July.
He was seen on the same vessel that Heslop, 41, from Southampton, Hampshire, vanished without a trace from on March 7 after she and Bane had drinks at the 420 in Center dive bar in Frank’s Bay, St. John.
The boyfriend of missing British woman Sarm Heslop has been spotted on a Caribbean Island. Pictured: Bane sitting on the deck of his boat in March 2021
Bane was moored at Grenada’s Le Phare Bleu Marina, but has changed the name of the boat, which is on sale for £220,000, from Siren Song to Orion’s Belt, the Mirror has reported.
It costs £50 a night to moor in the marina and he has allegedly asked to be kept off the ledger.
He has been seen cleaning his boat, chatting with locals, taking his dog for a walk, getting supplies and running in the area.
Ryan Bane (pictured), 44, is the only person of interest in the case but has not surfaced since detectives admitted losing track of him in early July. Pictured: Bane on his boat in March 2021
‘He has been here since September 7. He comes into the restaurant here regularly,’ a source said.
‘He eats breakfast and lunch and drinks a club soda or fruit juice, not alcohol. But he is enjoying the good life for sure – it’s a playboy lifestyle.
‘This place is paradise. He has never mentioned Sarm. No one here has any idea about that.’
In March, lawyers representing Bane said that he is ‘devastated’ that his girlfriend is missing, but said he would not be speaking to the media.
Bane, who has a conviction for assaulting his ex-wife, was charged with obstructing law agents by refusing to let US Coast Guard officials search his boat.
When the officials boarded, Bane is reported to have stood in a doorway and told them they could not enter.
He was handed a citation, which does not result in a criminal record.
He was seen on the same vessel that Sarm Heslop, 41, from Southampton, Hampshire, vanished without a trace from on March 7 after she and Bane had drinks at the 420 in Center dive bar in Frank’s Bay, St. John
Bane was moored at Grenada’s Le Phare Bleu Marina, but has changed the name of the boat, which is on sale for £220,000, from Siren Song to Orion’s Belt
The family of missing Sarm Heslop pleaded with her boyfriend to come forward and give them answers after she disappeared from his boat in the Caribbean.
Her parents are appealing for Bane to come forward and answer questions about her sudden disappearance.
‘They say time heals — but not when your daughter is missing. How can you move on when you have no answers?’, her father Peter Heslop said.
‘We want, need and deserve answers as to what happened to our daughter, sister and friend. We ask Bane to come forward to help us find those answers’.
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