Rebecca Coriam, pictured, was said to have been in a distressed state following a threesome gone wrong. She vanished in March 2011
A Disney cruise ship worker has broken her silence on the mystery death of her British lover at sea after facing years of suspicion over the tragedy.
Tracie Medley, who is now 29, says she last saw Rebecca Coriam in the early hours of March 21st 2011 in a distressed state following a threesome gone wrong.
As the 24-year-old left a cabin on the Disney Wonder vessel ‘to go for a walk’, Tracie said: ‘You are coming back, right?’
But Rebecca never returned – with her family fearing she was murdered after what is claimed to have been her ‘first time sleeping with a man’.
Tracie, who is now married and a mother of one, denies that she had anything to do with the disappearance and believes that Rebecca jumped from the ship.
She told the Mirror: ‘We were living the dream and it all crashed down so fast. I wish I went on the walk with her.
‘I hate that she was alone and that so many questions were left unanswered. In the two weeks before she died she was so depressed.
‘I felt horrible and I just knew I should have gone with her when she asked me to go.’
Rebecca, from Chester, is thought to have fallen in love with Medley while they worked together on the cruise ship.
But the relationship was left in tatters when the American’s Honduran lover Deven Hyde joined the vessel as a bar tender.
It has been claimed that Miss Coriam was told the ‘only way to be with her girlfriend’ was to have a threesome with Mr Hyde.
Rebecca, from Chester, is thought to have fallen in love with Tracie Medley, pictured left, while they worked together on the cruise ship. But the relationship was left in tatters when the American’s Honduran lover Deven Hyde, pictured right, joined the vessel as a bar tender
Rebecca is seen in a final CCTV image looking distressed while using an internal ship phone
The tragedy happened on board the Disney Wonder vessel as it sailed near Mexico (stock photo)
Despite the family’s suspicions of foul play, Disney ruled that the Briton had been swept overboard’ by a ‘freak wave’ as the ship sailed near Puerto Vallarta in Mexico.
Rebecca was said to be in an ‘intense and passionate’ relationship with Miss Medley and became upset when she became close to Mr Hyde, according to staff on the ship.
She was last seen on CCTV wearing men’s clothing at around 6am on the day of her disappearance and was pictured holding her head and looking distressed.
The ship’s head of security previously told The Sun: ‘Rebecca was very, very uncomfortable with it but she did it anyway. I think it was her first time sleeping with a man’.
Her body was never found and although suicide has been suggested as a theory, her parents Mike and Ann Coriam say they do not believe she killed herself as she had bought them tickets to go to Disneyland Paris, which they say is evidence she was ‘looking forward to the future’.
Rebecca, pictured left and right, was said to be in an ‘intense and passionate’ relationship with Miss Medley and became upset when she became close to Mr Hyde, according to staff on the ship
Despite the family’s suspicions of foul play, Disney ruled that Rebecca, pictured, had been swept overboard’ by a ‘freak wave’ as the ship sailed near Puerto Vallarta in Mexico
Staff on the ship said relationships between crew members were common because people could ‘be who they wanted to be’ but that many of them were kept secret over fear they could lose their jobs.
Two of the Liverpool student’s best friends visited the Coriam parents after she went missing, and said their friend had voiced fears of being raped or sexually attacked while on the ship.
Mr Anderson said: ‘What her best friends said to the Coriams sent a shiver down their spines.
The family have the support of many senior politicians including ex-deputy Labour leader John Prescott who has previously alleged Rebecca was ‘thrown overboard’.
Earlier this year the Coriams, Mr Anderson, and Roy Ramm – the former Commander of Specialist Operations at Scotland Yard, and the family’s private detective, visited policing minister Brandon Lewis at his Home Office HQ in London.
Mike and Ann Coriam, parents of Rebecca, and her sister Rachael at a memorial service for her in 2015
The family left the meeting optimistic, after being assured that the Tory politician would examine a dossier of new evidence about the case, handed to him by the Coriam campaigners.
After nine months, the investigating Bahamas police department declared the 24-year-old’s disappearance as ‘not suspicious’, although only six of the 950 crew were interviewed and none of the 2,000 passengers were questioned.
Last November private investigators disclosed their belief that ‘criminal activity’ was behind her vanishing.
Chester MP Chris Matheson, who is coordinating the investigation, believes there is a real possibility that Rebecca was murdered.
And that train of events is supported by the allegations of rape or sexual assault, campaigners added.
In 2015 Mr Matheson said: ‘I believe there’s sufficient evidence to indicate a crime may well have taken place.
‘Whatever the circumstance, there’s an obligation to investigate. My worst fear is Rebecca Coriam was murdered.’
Disney Cruises has always maintained the student was swept overboard.