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Cruise woman 'warned of men'
News.com.au ^ | March 10, 2006 | Adam Gartrell

Posted on 03/10/2006 4:09:37 AM PST by beaversmom

HOURS after boarding the luxury cruise that would result in her death, Dianne Brimble's friend warned her of a group of men who had been ogling female passengers, a Sydney inquest was told today. The next morning, Ms Brimble, 42, was found dead in a cabin belonging to some of those same men.

Police allege she had been given a lethal dose of the date rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate before being sexually assaulted.

The inquest was told Ms Brimble had been ecstatic, setting out on the "holiday of a lifetime" with family and friends on the P&O liner Pacific Sky on September 23, 2002.

That night, she met a group of eight men at a disco on the ship.

Close friend Nancy Chard today told Glebe Coroners Court she warned Ms Brimble not long after boarding the ship to stay away from the men.

"They were just basically watching every female so I just said to Di be very careful," Ms Chard said.

"They were odd, to my eyes they were really odd-looking people.

"There's a difference between just looking at a woman and undressing them by looking."

Ms Chard said she heard some of the men, who were staying in a cabin directly opposite hers, involved in an argument earlier that night with a group of girls.

She told the court the girls later informed her the men had asked them to expose their genitalia and had propositioned them.

The men were obviously drunk and had been making noise until the early hours of the morning, she said.

The day Ms Brimble's body was found, Ms Chard said she saw one of the eight men crying in the hallway, and in the following days, she said the men gave Ms Brimble's friends "filthy looks".

"They would give us a look as if to say, they have no shame," she said.

"It was almost like it was just playing, they had no remorse."

Ms Brimble's older sister Alma Wood, who also was on the cruise, tearfully told the court her sister had been a "prude" who would not have wilfully taken drugs or engaged in promiscuous sex.

"That sort of stuff was always gross to her," Ms Wood said.

The inquest before Deputy State Coroner Jacqueline Milledge continues next week.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: coroner; crime; criminality; criminals; cruise; cruising; daterape; jetsetter; mayhem; murder; oceanliner; pacificsky; po; posthocpropterhoc; rape; travel
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To: beaversmom

I thought this was going to be a thread about Tom Cruise.


21 posted on 03/10/2006 5:12:01 AM PST by PJ-Comix ((Join the DUmmie FUnnies PING List for the FUNNIEST Blog on the Web)
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To: son of caesar

Are you really that big of a dick, or is it just an affectation?


22 posted on 03/10/2006 5:12:21 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: pageonetoo
Alcohol affects women at a faster rate than men, the AMA reported.

Thank goodness for that.

(Only way a homely guy like me is married with two kids and a third on the way.)

23 posted on 03/10/2006 5:13:02 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: yankeedame

The $97.98 cruise is just around the corner!


24 posted on 03/10/2006 5:13:08 AM PST by Flyer (Send Beer)
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To: son of caesar

Excellent. Another post demonstrating the worst of freeperdom.


25 posted on 03/10/2006 5:20:42 AM PST by dmz
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To: yankeedame
OMG,please,please,please don't let cruises go the way of air travel!

When do we get our peanuts?

27 posted on 03/10/2006 5:33:48 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim ("I am the FREERIDER! Sent to strike down the UNCHILDWORTHY!!")
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To: Flyer
The $97.98 cruise is just around the corner!

If it's you, me, Eaker, Squantos, and Humblegunner going up the Atachafalaya on a Siwft Boat with a couple of Ma Duces... count me in!

28 posted on 03/10/2006 5:35:37 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim ("I am the FREERIDER! Sent to strike down the UNCHILDWORTHY!!")
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To: beaversmom

What a weird story. No background on the men, no descriptions of the men or even if they had been detained!


29 posted on 03/10/2006 5:37:19 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (What? Me worry?)
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To: son of caesar

Worse, it takes eight to make a lib air-tight.


30 posted on 03/10/2006 5:40:04 AM PST by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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To: Flyer

"Cruises are getting cheaper and cheaper. Heck, I even read recently that Wal-Mart is going to be selling cruise packages. You get a different class of people the cheaper they get."

I recommend an Alaskan cruise. The people who go on these cruises are usually older and wealthier and the scenery in Alaska is fantastic.


31 posted on 03/10/2006 5:40:34 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
See ya at the cruise terminal. . .

Bubba's Cruises

32 posted on 03/10/2006 5:42:12 AM PST by Flyer (Send Beer)
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To: SR 50

If somebody slipped her a "lethal dose of the date rape drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate", whose fault would that be?


33 posted on 03/10/2006 5:49:30 AM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: beaversmom

I wonder if the men's names are middle eastern?


34 posted on 03/10/2006 6:10:18 AM PST by tkathy (Ban the headscarf (http://bloodlesslinchpinsofislamicterrorism.blogspot.com))
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To: Flyer

Goodbye, Joe, me gotta go ... me oh my-o ... me gotta go fo me pirogue dans le bayou ...


35 posted on 03/10/2006 6:19:38 AM PST by Rte66
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To: dhuffman@awod.com

lol, that is funny


36 posted on 03/10/2006 6:21:27 AM PST by son of caesar
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To: beaversmom

Simple solution to questionable conduct:

Closed Circuit TV cameras. Have a simple line in the brochure that states,"Our guests' enjoyment are our most important purpose. For the safety of all the common areas have closed circuit security."

Just put up a lot of cameras with a light on and have a sensor if a towel is thrown over them so they will alarm and security can come out straight away.


37 posted on 03/10/2006 6:22:30 AM PST by American Vet Repairman (Liberalism has killed more Americans than the Taliban)
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To: Capriole

Please read my post carefully before you attack me. I was not referring to this woman at all, since I do not know her nor do I know how she behaves. Thats no. 1. Now as to your no.2, get a life please, it is liberals who do not want to punish the types that use such things as date rape drugs, you see, in my world you would die if you use such a thing, get it? Your no. 3. Irrelevant as you are speaking of one person while I was speaking generally, not about this one woman


38 posted on 03/10/2006 6:25:01 AM PST by son of caesar
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To: Rebelbase

I prefer to use rollers or electric sprayers if Im going to do the job in the first place.


39 posted on 03/10/2006 6:26:12 AM PST by son of caesar
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To: dmz

You dont want the truth, you cant take the truth.


40 posted on 03/10/2006 6:28:02 AM PST by son of caesar
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