A woman accused of catfishing her ex-lover who then took her own life once left her 54 missed calls in the one evening and warned ‘you have no way to escape … I’ll own you’.
An inquest into the suicide death of Renae Marsden, 20, on Wednesday heard about a series of emails and phone calls Renae’s ex-girlfriend Camila Zeidan made to her while they were in a relationship in 2008, and later in 2011.
The court is examining how Ms Zeidan allegedly concocted an online boyfriend for Renae named ‘Brayden Spiteri’ before her death on August 5, 2013.
Counsel assisting the inquest Sasha Harding read an email Camila wrote to Renae which she claimed showed her attitude toward Renae. ‘Baby I love you I love you I love you I love youuuuu,’ the email began.
Renae Marsden (left) and Camila (right) went to Mt St Benedict’s College together and were in a relationship at school. Renae moved on after school, but the inquest has heard claims Camila actively tried to break up their relationship – and then catfished her as a man named ‘Brayden’
This is a picture of the man Renae believed was Brayden. But it was not. The inquest heard this picture was originally from Camila’s phone
‘I’m going to eat you up in a second baby. I miss you more than anything and I swear babe anyone who ever takes you away from me is going to be sorry.
‘I had 54 calls last night Camila. That’s f***ed. I’m sorry, but that’s possessive. If you can’t see that then there is something terribly wrong with you’.
Renae Marsden in a Facebook message to Camila Zeidan
‘I’ll be a Kung Fu Panda and smash them.
‘I swear to God kid, you’re going no where. You kill me, I’ll be your ghost. You hate me, I’ll still love you. Run away, chase you …
‘LMAO you got no way to escape babe because only I’m in love with you, only I’ll own you and only I’ll have you forever. You cheat and I’ll make the f***er regret it.
‘I don’t think you have any way of this love.
‘Sorry gorgeous but you’ve got to know I’m too in love with you and too obsessed with you’.
Asked about her describing her relationship with Renae as ‘obsessive’, Camila said: ‘Back then, I’m talking about back then …Well yeah, I loved her’.
In the years that followed, Ms Zeidan would go on to create a ‘character’ named Brayden, a fake prisoner in Goulburn jail, who communicated incessantly with Renae.
Ms Zeidan admitted today Brayden never existed and has claimed he was a ‘character’ the pair made up to be together, because no one would otherwise accept them as a couple.
Renae Marsden had a blunt reaction to allegedly receiving 54 missed calls from Camila in the one night: ‘That’s f***ed’
In another 2008 email to Renae, Camila spoke about two friends who she claimed had made a remark about their relationship, describing them as ‘little f***en’ drop kick skanks, I fucken hate them to death, I want them dead now Renae…
‘I’m going to kill them both, I’ll snap their necks out of place’.
She called them ‘oily dirty mother***Ing c***s’ and said ‘no one ever says s*** about me and my babies’.
Ms Harding said: ‘That is a very extreme reaction to someone making a comment about your reaction to Renae.’
Camila said: ‘Obviously I cared about her and I loved her ….’
Ms Harding: ‘You think that’s a reasonable response?’
‘It isn’t now, but I don’t know what I was going through at the time,’ Camila said.
During Wednesday’s hearing, Camila repeatedly said ‘I don’t remember’ to incidents involving Renae.
The inquest also heard claims Camila actively tried to break up Renae’s relationship with her boyfriend, Angus, who she dated after school.
Facebook messages tendered at the inquest between Camila and Renae in 2011 show the suicide victim describing Camila’s behaviour as ‘f***ed’ and ‘possessive’.
When Camila complained of being ‘second’ place in Renae’s life, Renae replied: ‘I don’t lie, OK. I’m sick to death of saying when I can’t talk.
‘I had 54 calls last night Camila. That’s f***ed. I’m sorry, but that’s possessive. If you can’t see that then there is something terribly wrong with you’.
Camila told Ms Harding: ‘I probably did try and talk to her’
Ms Harding said: ‘Even Renae at this point is saying that it’s f***ed and she herself is describing it as possessive.’
Camila said: ‘It works both ways … I don’t know what was going on at the time.’
In her witness statement, Teresa claimed Camila would lurk at the top of Renae’s driveway in her car when the suicide victim was in a relationship with Angus.
Teresa claimed she followed them during mother-daughter trips to the local Castle Towers shopping centre and that the behaviour was ‘like stalking’. (Camila denied the encounters, claiming she never followed Renae around).
Renae and Camila met up with both their mothers at a shopping centre when Renae got frustrated over the alleged behaviour, Teresa’s statement to the court.
‘Renae had told me we need to put a stop to this. (Camila) has to be told to leave me alone and stop harassing me,’ Teresa said.
Camila was ‘swearing and making a scene’ at the meeting and Teresa claimed that Camila later grabbed Renae by the arm, chased her to the carpark and held her car door open.
Camila told the court: ‘That didn’t happen, so I’m saying, yeah, I never grabbed her arm or held her car open’.
Ms Harding said, during this time, Camila ‘wouldn’t leave her alone.
‘You’re almost hunting her down. You turn up in places unexpectedly.
When Camila claimed I never followed her or grabbed her’, Ms Harding said: ‘You didn’t physically – but you’re certainly following her on the phone.
’54 missed calls. It’s not giving up, letting go’.
Renae called Goulburn prison the day she died to try and speak to Brayden, the inquest has heard, despite Camila’s claims he was a ‘character’ they invented together.
The inquest continues.