Boyfriend of missing woman in US Virgin Islands verbally abusive to former stepdaughter: ex-wife

EXCLUSIVE: The ex-wife of American yacht captain Ryan Bane revealed new accusations about his alleged abusive past one month after his British girlfriend Sarm Heslop vanished following a night out at a bar in the U.S.

Corie Stevenson told Fox News Thursday that he’d lost his temper "dozens of times" with her daughter Grace, then a preteen, and that it got so bad she couldn’t leave them alone together when she went to class or work.

Corie Stevenson and ex-husband Ryan Bane, whose girlfriend Sarm Heslop disappeared last month, in an undated photo.

Bane’s attorney told Fox News Thursday they are "not making any additional comments at this time.".

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Then one day when Stevenson returned home from a grocery store, she said she came in to find Bane screaming at her daughter – who had splattered a gooey toy on a glass sliding door with the slingshot.

When the couple got divorced, Stevenson said Bane took her daughter’s dog, Hunter, whom he has been photographed with as recently as last month in the Virgin Islands.

As Fox News has previously reported, Bane was jailed for beating Stevenson in 2011 after a drunken night at a wedding – and then had his probation revoked for violating the terms of his release.

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Virgin Islands the night before

Stevenson, who knew Bane growing up and attended the same high school, said police not searching the vessel is "the craziest thing I’ve ever even heard of."

Virgin Islands investigators have repeatedly declined to answer questions about whether they are seeking a search warrant for the Siren Song or if Bane is considered a person of interest, citing the ongoing investigation

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However Jerry Forrester, a former FBI agent and private investigator who specialized in the Caribbean, said it shouldn’t be difficult to establish probable cause and get a search warrant for the last place a missing person was seen

"They have enough probable cause, I think," he told Fox News last week. "She’s missing, and she was on that boat...They’re just not doing their job."

Virgin Islands Police Department