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Friends of missing British sailor Sarm Heslop have new hope for answers after police resignation

Source: Find Sarm

The friends of missing British sailor Sarm Heslop have renewed hope that authorities in the Virgin Islands may now support their search following the resignation of its police commissioner.

Sarm Heslop, 41, vanished from her American boyfriend Ryan Bane’s 47-foot luxury catamaran in the Caribbean on 8 March 2021. He is believed to have been the last person to see her alive.

Friends behind the campaign #JusticeForSarm said police commissioner Ray Martinez previously “failed to engage” with the search for Ms

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