Dianne Elizabeth Brimble, the 42-year-old mother of three from Brisbane, Queensland in Australia died on September 23, 2002 , within 24 hours of boarding a cruise liner. She was apparently felled by a toxic combination of alcohol and date-rape drug gamma hydroxybutyrate, also known as fantasy.
She had gone on the cruise with her 12-year-old daughter, sister and niece, and two families she was friends with.
Toxicology reports later revealed that the amount of the sedative drug in her system was three times the amount that a recreational user would have used. Her body was found on the floor of cabin D182, which belonged to four of the men whom she had met at the ship's disco the previous night.
Four years later, only now, the inquest has commenced.
Eight men from South Australia who were traveling companions on the ship have been named by police investigators as "persons of interest" in the case.
One of the eight has told the Sydney inquest the behaviour of his seven travelling companions was "horrendously embarrassing".
Adelaide University student Matthew Slade said the embarrassing behaviour of the other seven began on their flight to Sydney to meet the cruise ship.
Describing the men as "really rough guys", Mr Slade said they commented favourably and unfavourably on the appearance of female passengers.
He said he'd only come to know two of the men before he left Adelaide and decided he'd try to ditch them on the cruise because of their behavior on the plane.
Her body was found on the floor of the cabin Slade shared with three of the other seven persons of interest.
Earlier too several witnesses had testified that the men had spent most of the time on the cruise allegedly propositioning a number of female passengers of varying ages.
Among numerous acts of alleged sexual harassment were asking a 15 year old to do an erotic dance in their cabin for
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