Hours after eight men boarded a P&O cruise, mum-of-three Dianne Brimble was dead in their cabin. They hoped to get rich selling their story... now we reveal what REALLY happened to the grubs: SPECIAL INVESTIGATION BY CANDACE SUTTON
It was meant to be the cruise of a lifetime, and that wasn't just for Dianne Elizabeth Brimble, who would end up dead from a date rape drug, her body sprawled naked on the floor of a ship's cabin.
The men on whose blue cabin carpet Dianne died, and their four mates in the cabin next door - the so-called 'Brimble 8' - were also looking forward to their voyage aboard the Pacific Sky, but for different reasons.
While Dianne was anticipating a fun family holiday she'd long been saving for, the men, or at least some of them, were geared up for a sex tour.
Eight mates from South Australia, they'd arrived in Sydney in boisterous spirits off an Adelaide flight - during which they'd loudly rated women according to their desirability - on the morning of September 23, 2002.
Packing a cache of illegal substances to help lure females once on board, the men began drinking at the wharf, which they continued on deck once they had dropped their bags in the cabins they'd each forked out around $500 to share.
Some of the men wasted no time in offering Fantasy or other drugs to female passengers on a 'you need only ask' basis.
This was even before Ms Brimble's death railroaded their plans for ten days and nine nights of drug-fuelled hijinks.
And while some of the eight continued for years to hope they'd make millions and buy Ferraris by selling their stories on TV about the 'Dianne Brimble Fantasy drug cruise ship death', that didn't quite work as planned either.
The Brimble 8 pose before sailing. Top: Mark Wilhelm, MS (pixelated), Dragan Losic, Peter Pantic. Bottom: Ryan Kuchel, Letterio Silvestri, Luigi Vitale, Charlie Kambouris
Ryan Kuchel took two of the men back to the cabin to photograph Dianne Brimble having sex after the mum-of-three had been given the drug Fantasy, and he later lied to police
Following a lengthy inquest, the coroner ruled that 'Dianne Brimble was unknowingly drugged by unscrupulous individuals who were intent on denigrating her for their own sexual gratification'.
One of the men, Leo Silvestri, joked to fellow passengers 'they were going to throw her overboard' and indeed the coroner found that had been the plan, but by the time they had dressed her body there were too many passengers up and about.
Now more than 20 years later, the Brimble 8 have experienced varying degrees of success and failure - from the man who boasts of being an international entrepreneur, to the drug offender who got charged with importing bestiality videos.
One has been convicted of assaulting a woman. Then there's Mark Wilhelm, the man who fed Ms Brimble liquid Fantasy and failed to call ship medics until it was too late, and who has tried to quietly disappear in a rural city.
But there's no getting away from being one of the Brimble 8, and despite each of the men initially named as 'persons of interest' in Dianne's death avoiding punishment, all have earned national derision.
As the coroner would find after reviewing evidence and seeing the awful photos, 'a number of the men were present and involved in the sexual degradation of Ms Brimble'.
And so after a recap of the disgraceful events which surrounded a vulnerable mother-of-three's final moments alive, Daily Mail Australia sought an update on the men whose holiday her tragic death 'ruined'...
DIANNE BRIMBLE'S LAST DAY
Dianne Brimble, 42, saved up for two years for her cruise ship holiday with family, but died an undignified death on the floor of a ship's cabin. Above right, Ms Brimble in the background of the photo of the eight men implicated in her death
It was 3.15pm on a bright Monday at Sydney's cruise ship wharf and Dianne Brimble looked jubilant as she held up her hand in farewell climbing the metal gangway to embark on a voyage of the Pacific.
The Queensland mum-of-three and her sister Alma had scrimped for two years to pay for their 10-day cruise to Nouméa, New Caledonia and Vanuatu.
Dianne had put away $2,100 each for herself and for her daughter from her salary at Freedom Furniture in Brisbane. She was unable to afford fares for her two sons to come too.
Finally, after a few days' sightseeing in Sydney, the sisters were boarding P&O's Pacific Sky liner with their young daughters and eight other family members.
They would be sleeping in three neighbouring cabins without portholes on Dolphin Deck, one of the ship's more affordable lower decks.
Despite an unsettling 'premonition' dream days before, 42-year-old Dianne seemed happy and excited to be setting sail.
Mark Robin Wilhelm was charged with Dianne Brimble's manslaughter but after the charge was dropped, a judge issued no penalty for supplying the drug GHB which killed Ms Brimble, saying Wilhelm's life had been destroyed amid 'hysteria' about the case
Sharing the adjoining cabin were mates, from left, bikie figure and drug dealer Luigi Vitale, drug and pornography offender Petar Pantic, wife beater Dragan Losic and martial arts man Charlie Kambouris
An upbeat Dianne Brimble waves goodbye as she boards the Pacific Sky at 3.15pm on September 23, 2002. A little over 12 hours later she would be dead and degraded, her naked body lying on one of the ship's cabin floors
Unbeknownst to her, an hour or two before boarding the ship she had featured in a photograph at Wharf 8, the old Overseas Passenger Terminal since demolished.
Eight smiling men had posed for a group shot, and just over the right shoulder of one - Mark Robin Wilhelm, the man who would supply her with the date rape drug that would kill her - there is Dianne, a blur in the background.
Around dawn the next day, Dianne would be dying of an overdose from his stash of liquid Fantasy on the floor of the cabin he shared with three others, her naked, hastily cleaned body covered in scratches and abrasions.
A series of degrading photos, including close-up shots of Ms Brimble's body partially draped with a sheet, would tell the story of her humiliating death.
Some of the eight who occupied Dolphin Deck's Cabin D182 and Cabin D178 next door worked out in the same gym and in Adelaide's nightclub industry.
Police photograph of the Cabin D182 where Dianne Brimble had sex with Mark Wilhelm after having what would prove to be a fatal dose of GHB. She died on the cabin's floor
Dianne Brimble was ordinarily a reserved person and her actions on board the Pacific Sky, the coroner found, had been caused by her drink probably being spiked with the drug GHB while still in the ship's nightclub
The Pacific Sky sailed from Sydney Harbour on the evening of September 23, 2002. By dawn the next morning, the naked body of Dianne Brimble was lying on the floor of a cabin
When they boarded the ship, Wilhelm, 33, had ecstasy concealed in his shoe. Building site safety worker Letterio 'Leo' Silvestri, 41, another man who had a sexual encounter with Ms Brimble after she'd taken Fantasy, was carrying Valium, Viagra and sleeping tablets.
Among the men's belongings there was enough liquid Fantasy, or gamma-hydroxybutyrate, to deal the drug on board.
As the ship cruised out of Sydney Harbour, one woman passenger saw the group of eight 'fit and full of testosterone' and, she believed, 'visually undressing' the women on deck.
The woman, who believed the men were drug dealers, would later warn Dianne Brimble not to leave her drink unattended in the ship's nightclub.
On that first night aboard, at the ship's Starlight Disco after the 'Sail Away' cocktail party, dinner and drinks in Legends Sports Bar, Ms Brimble had appeared determined to celebrate.
Divorced from her sons' father, Dianne had just broken up with the dad of her 12-year-old daughter Tahlia.
When her tired sister Alma Wood went to bed at 11.30pm, promising to party the following night, Dianne drank on with a few men from the Adelaide group, and when the disco closed, she left around the same time, at 4.20am.
Later that morning, Tuesday, September 24, Alma was joking with her daughter Kari-Ann and niece Tahlia about the fact Dianne had still not returned to their cabin.
A naked Mark Wilhelm striding the corridors of Pacific Sky's D Deck after taking liquid Fantasy and Viagra on the night Dianne Brimble died from an overdose
Wilhelm (above at court in 2009) would have a manslaughter charge against him dropped and receive no penalty for supplying Dianne Brimble with the date rape drug that killed her
The holiday was meant to be an opportunity for the ordinarily 'conservative' Ms Brimble to let her hair down, and Alma told the girls Dianne probably had too much to drink and had fallen asleep 'in a deck chair'.
Around 8.30am, an emergency call sounded on the ship's loudspeaker and a worried Alma walked out of their cabin, D188, to see medical staff rushing to the cabin just across the hallway.
Security officers kept other passengers from getting too near D182, which had been occupied by Mark Wilhelm, Letterio Silvestri and their friends including real estate agent Ryan Kuchel, 29.
The other men in the adjacent cabin, Luigi Vitale, 41, Dragan Losic, 45, Peter Pantic, 29, and Charlie Kambouris, 43, were just across the corridor from Dianne's other cruising relatives.
Wilhelm called for medical assistance as late as 8.30am. By this time, the forensic pathologist would estimate, Ms Brimble had been dead for hours, likely having 'died 'between 5am and 6.30am'.
She was pronounced dead at 9.03am. NSW Police were contacted at 9.30am and issued firm instructions that the cabin be secured as a crime scene.
An officer approached Alma Wood in the corridor and asked her if she knew if Dianne Brimble had any medical problems, Ms Wood replying her sister had a long-standing problem of having to push back on the front of her nose to breathe, and 'the more she drank, the worse it got'.
A nurse told Ms Wood that Dianne was dead.
Ryan Kuchel went on to have a career as an international entrepreneur
Dianne Brimble's naked body lay between the two lower bunk beds of Cabin D182 (above) before Wilhelm and Silvestri washed and redressed it, the coroner concluded, so it could be thrown overboard
Passengers remember seeing Wilhelm naked in the corridor of D deck during that morning before the emergency alarm, and others among the eight behaving in a way which made them believe they were on drugs.
The men would come and go from the cabin of four women - who were also offered GHB but declined - in pairs and come back 'all hyped up'.
'Their behaviour when they returned suggested that they had taken something, they were quite excitable and loud, all pepped up,' a coroner investigating Dianne's death would later hear.
The inquest, which would not take place until 2006, would be told that after the nightclub closed, Dianne left with Wilhelm, Losic and Pantic.
On the way back to the cabins, Ms Brimble allegedly went into a women's toilet with Wilhelm and a sexual act took place, after which they went back to Wilhelm's cabin.
Two of Wilhelm's cabin mates were asleep. Silvestri woke up and gave a Viagra tablet to Wilhelm, who said he needed a further boost.
Wilhelm took out a plastic bottle containing a pink liquid and told Dianne it was the drug Fantasy (GHB, or simply known as 'G') and said he was taking some.
According to one version of events at the inquest, Wilhelm told Dianne the 'liquid Fantasy' would make her 'ten times hornier' than usual and when she asked if it was dangerous, he said 'no'.
As the pair engaged in sexual intercourse in the cabin's top bunk, Ryan Kuchel exited and told Losic and Pantic in the next cabin what was happening. The three men returned with Charlie Kambouris' digital camera.
For 'a laugh', Pantic allegedly took photos which, although later suppressed by the coroner, were described to the court.
Dianne Brimble (above) with her former husband Mark, who supported his ex-wife's reputation as a reserved woman who would never have engaged in sex acts with multiple men, saying she must have been drugged
Drugs seized from the Pacific Sky after Dianne Brimble was found dead in a ship's cabin
One photo showed Wilhelm showing off to the camera, Brimble's arm around him. Another photo showed her lying next to Silvestri, on whom it was claimed she performed a sex act.
Brimble asked if she could sleep in their cabin, so as not to wake her daughter. Silvestri would later push her onto the floor.
Sometime over the next few hours, Ms Brimble lay between the two lower bunk beds and showed signs of struggling, before losing consciousness.
The close-up photos on camera would show an unconscious or dead woman, naked on the cabin's blue carpet, and having defecated.
Medical workers would later note evidence of drugs after arriving at the cabin following Wilhelm's call for help, which they reported.
Dianne Brimble might reasonably have been saved from dying if medics had been called earlier, a coroner found
Among the men who became persons of interest in the Dianne Brimble case were drug dealers with bikie links like Luigi Vitale (above, being arrested for allegedly trafficking Fantasy in 2018)
But the cabin was not sealed, as per the instructions radioed in by police. Instead its four occupants were allowed to gather their belongings and move to another cabin, forever removing the crime scene of evidence.
Police would place legal intercepts on the men's phones, recording them discussing their concerns about potential drug charges, getting their stories straight about who had sex with Ms Brimble, who took the GHB, and where the drugs came from '(Adrian in Adelaide').
In the secretly taped conversations, some of the men considered ways of cashing in on the inquest.
Extracts from transcripts of the hundreds of hours of bugged calls were released in former journalist Geesche Jacobsen's 2010 book 'Abandoned: The Sad Death of Dianne Brimble'.
Ideas ranged from selling their story to TV, setting up a fee-for-access website, suing for defamation and offering police the truth for cash.
'You will have a Ferrari by the end of this,' Leo Silvestri told Ryan Kuchel.
In one call, Silvestri and Petar Pantic talked about selling their story to 60 Minutes.
'Let's make some money out of it before they f***ing shaft us. F*** we'll mention everything,' Pantic said, and they discussed a pay-only website or offering police a $1million deal to reveal the truth.
Jacobsen wrote in her book that Silvestri and Kuchel were upset by media criticism of them and the others, but that 'the opportunity to sue for defamation would give them their revenge'.
Mark Wilhelm would be charged with her manslaughter, but the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions dropped the charge against him in 2010.
He pleaded guilty to supplying the drug and escaped with a conviction but no penalty.
Justice Roderick Howie, who let off Wilhelm because of the 'years of public humiliation which caused severe mental illness', claimed the drug supply was in 'a social context' and that 'Mrs Brimble was voluntarily consuming the drug'.
That was not the conclusion of the coroner's inquest, which found she was likely given an initial dose at the disco which caused her 'rapid deterioration into a drunken, staggering woman'.
The fatal dose would come later in the ship's cabin as a disinhibited Ms Brimble agreed to sex with more than one man.
Two of the other men from the cabin, Letterio Silvestri and Ryan Kuchel, both admitted concealing an indictable offence by not telling police Wilhelm had supplied the drug.
Silvestri received a 15-month suspended sentence and Kuchel was placed on an 18-month good behaviour bond.
CABIN D182 - THE DEATH CABIN OCCUPANTS
MARK ROBIN WILHELM - The drug supplier
In the years since Wilhelm supplied GHB to Dianne Brimble and had sex with her before she died, he has complained that the tragedy ruined his life.
Wilhelm said he poured a small amount of Fantasy for Ms Brimble into a drink bottle lid, but the fact is her GHB blood level reading was 210 milligrams per litre.
It was a toxic amount which caused Ms Brimble to vomit, empty her bladder and then defecate as her body went into distress and she died.
Her naked form, which had been pushed onto Cabin D182's floor, bore four scratches by her left eye, grazes and bruising on her chest, abrasions on one knee, little finger and left foot, plus head and neck injuries.
Before she died, Wilhelm posed for photographs with her, taken by one of the four men who went into the cabin 'for a laugh' when they learned that 'Mark was having sex with the fat chick'.
Wilhelm was photographed naked except for a life jacket in the ship's corridors. He abandoned Ms Brimble to party with women in another cabin, returning hours later to wash her soiled body, dress her and raise the alarm.
Mark Wilhelm, now aged in his early 50s, fled Adelaide for Mildura, where female winery workers said they didn't want to be near him, then moved to Bendigo where he lived on the outskirts of town
Even when a medical team arrived and specifically asked Wilhelm if Ms Brimble had ingested drugs, he denied it.
Former Senior Deputy NSW Coroner Jacqueline Milledge said: 'Despite this being a life-threatening situation where Ms Brimble deserved the best possible chance of survival, he could not even tell the truth to save her life.'
He fled from Adelaide before he could testify at the 2006 inquest, but was sprung by disgusted locals when the then 33-year-old turned up 400km away in the Victorian border town of Mildura.
There he got a job as a maintenance supervisor at Foster's Wine Estates' Karadoc Winery, producers of Lindemans wines, near Mildura.
His boss and co-workers only learned of his involvement in the Brimble case when the inquest opened, and women on Karadoc's bottling line complained they felt 'intimidated, uneasy, maybe a little scared'.
One female co-worker said, 'He's a prick - you know, arrogant', but the Australian Workers' Union did not call for his dismissal because, despite a 2005 fine for producing cannabis, he was not a 'criminal'.
Wilhelm left Mildura.
A trial judge claimed Mark Wilhelm had 'suffered enough' over years of public ignominy
After the 16-month coronial inquest, manslaughter and drug supply charges were laid against him.
But in 2010, the manslaughter charge was dropped and Wilhelm pleaded guilty to drug supply.
Trial judge Roderick Howie said Wilhelm had lost his house and his marriage, and had received death threats, and was 'a person of good behaviour and of good reputation, apart from the reputation that has been destroyed by allegations... surrounded by a degree of hysteria'.
He said Wilhelm 'has suffered grievously' for 'what would have been seen by him as an insignificant incident that occurred on this cruise boat'.
Wilhelm moved to the Victorian town of Bendigo, and lived on its outer western fringes in rural Marong.
The local water corporation took him to court for alleged unpaid 'monies due' and in 2018 bankruptcy proceedings were taken out, concluding in July 2019 when he was declared bankrupt.
The same year he received a bond for a traffic offence. Wilhelm is not registered to vote.
LETTERIO 'LEO' SILVESTRI - drugs, sex, then 'throw her overboard'
Letterio Silvestri shared the cabin with Wilhelm and two others where Ms Brimble died.
Evidence before the inquest said that Silvestri brought on board Valium, Viagra, ecstasy and sleeping tablets, but asserted to authorities they were all prescription drugs.
He would have a sexual encounter with Ms Brimble, before pushing her onto the cabin floor.
Silvestri boasted of having given drugs to a woman at the ship's Sail Away cocktails. He appeared jittery and kept biting his lip as he bragged about making thousands through investments.
The next day he told the woman about 'the b****' (Brimble) being dead, saying 'some top secret stuff had gone down' and that 'a few of the boys... had got busy with her down in the cabin'.
Leo Silvestri had sex with Ms Brimble and joked about throwing her body overboard
The coroner concluded that Silvestri and Wilhelm re-dressed Ms Brimble's body so they could dump it and avoid detection, but by the time they had completed this laborious task there were too many passengers in the corridor heading for breakfast.
When the Code Alpha response team of two nurses and doctors responded to the emergency call, they noted Silvestri demanded they remove Ms Brimble immediately because she was in his way.
Asked if he knew of any prescription or illegal drugs in the cabin, Silvestri said no, although the coroner stated he was thought to be the likely supplier of most of the drugs in the Brimble 8 group.
He pleaded guilty to concealing a serious indictable offence, the drug supply to Ms Brimble.
Letterio 'Leo' Silvestri brought Viagra, sleeping pills and ecstasy on board and the coroner believed his joke about throwing Ms Brimble's body overboard was an actual plan
In the years since, Silvestri's marriage ended.
He has worked as a transport safety officer, and one fellow employee told Daily Mail Australia he had continued to blame Ms Brimble for costing him his holiday, and referred to the dead women in 'disgusting' and derogatory terms.
The former colleague said women 'didn't want to work with' Silvestri when they learned of his past and the now 60-year-old 'fancied himself as a ladies' man' at his local favourite bar.
RYAN JOHN KUCHEL - the rich manipulator
Real estate agent Ryan Kuchel met Dianne Brimble at the ship's disco and claims she 'made a move' on him and so he went straight to bed.
Around 90 minutes later, he heard Wilhelm and Ms Brimble enter the cabin and begin to have sex on the top bunk which 'disrupted everyone else' and so he went to the cabin next door.
Kuchel couldn't wait to tell two of the men, Dragan Losic and Peter Pantic, that Wilhelm was having sex with a woman in his cabin.
The men then took Kambouris' Sony camera and went into the cabin to film the pair.
The three men then accompanied Wilhelm to the cabin of four young women to continue partying, and then took the women back to D182 to view the apparently lifeless body of Ms Brimble.
Ryan Kuchel admitted that he, Losic and Pantic had watched Wilhelm having sex with Ms Brimble, but then took some Fantasy and fell asleep
In 2008, Ryan Kuchel's fiancée Lana March was prepared to stand by him, saying he was 'hard-working and quiet' and the case was a 'storm in a teacup'
Kuchel admitted to these women that he, Losic and Pantic had watched Wilhelm having sex with Ms Brimble, but then took some Fantasy and fell asleep in their cabin.
The inquest report said that according to the telephone intercepts Kuchel played a major role in preparing the men for their appearances at the inquest and that he had a 'convenient' memory and could not be regarded as a witness of truth.
Coroner Milledge said: 'Ryan Kuchel in particular appears to be orchestrating much of the telephone activity. He is the one they seem to look to for guidance. He factors heavily in their efforts to deceive the investigation.
She said that in the bugged calls Kuchel 'develops a memory for hearing Wilhelm "offer" the drug to her and hears him describing its effects when Ms Brimble asks what it's like'.
It was Kuchel who Leo Silvestri suggested could 'have a Ferrari' out of selling their side of the Brimble scandal.
Ryan Kuchel, who in evidence to the inquest admitted lying on three occasions to police, pleaded guilty to concealing a serious indictable offence.
It did not deter the trajectory of his career in property development and in the years after Ms Brimble's death he moved to Dubai and began earning $250,000 a year as a senior leasing executive.
In 2008, his fiancée Lana March was prepared to stand by him, saying he was 'hard-working and quiet' and the case was a 'storm in a teacup'.
Ryan Kuchel's lawyer told a court Kuchel had lied only to cover up his own drug use, and had been 'pilloried' and over time driven from Australia
His lawyer Peter Hamill, SC, told a court Kuchel had lied only to cover up his own drug use, and had been 'pilloried' and over time driven from Australia.
'He has lost several jobs as a result of the publicity,' Hamill said.
On his website, Kuchel describes himself as a 'successful entrepreneur' who returned to Australia in 2019 to mentor 'start-up disruptor companies... with a heavy emphasis on corporate social responsibility'.
Pictured on the site with Lana March and their two children, Kuchel says he 'acquired highly desired skill sets that learned from dealing with large multinationals as clients'.
MS
Daily Mail Australia has chosen to mention the eighth man only by his initials, MS. He was described by Coroner Milledge as the 'only remotely credible witness' among the men and did not take part in the events.
MS was sharing the cabin with Wilhelm, Silvestri and Kuchel in which Dianne Brimble died, but he told security officer Westwood that he took sleeping tablets that night as he expected the others would want to party in their cabin later.
He woke in the morning with a headache and went to go out for cigarettes and coffee.
'There was a person on the ground but didn't take notice who it was being hungover and quite dazed from tablets. Passed Leo and Mark in doorway who I ignored on my way to get coffee and cigarettes/lighter.'
MS later said he hadn't really seen the person on the ground at all but had felt intimidated during police questioning into saying something.
CABIN D178: The men from the cabin next door who took photos of a naked Dianne
DRAGAN LOSIC
A tall, imposing, heavily tattooed man with a goatee beard and large stature, Dragan Losic stood head and shoulders above the other seven men when they posed for a group photo at the wharf before boarding the Pacific Sky.
Losic would later claim he drank for 18 hours that day and into the night, clouding his memory of events, a claim disbelieved by the coroner.
Dianne Brimble would flirt with Losic while still at the nightclub. Probably already under the influence of date rape drug GHB, which the coroner would later suspect had been slipped into her drink, Ms Brimble put her hand on his knee.
When he asked for a full body massage and she refused, Losic lost his temper to the extent that security staff had to intervene.
The inquest heard he offered GHB to another female passenger in exchange for sex, which he denied.
Dragan Losic was told by the coroner it was not credible that he could not remember being shown photographs of Ms Brimble naked and unconscious in the hours before she died.
Dragan Losic was convicted last year on four counts of the aggravated assault of his wife. The court heard that in one of the attacks, he pulled his since-estranged wife out of bed by her hair
After a rebuke, Losic admitted that he had been aware that Dianne Brimble was lying on his mate's cabin floor.
Losic, who has historical convictions for assault, dishonesty and drug possession, cultivation and production, has served time in jail.
Last year, the 63-year-old avoided prison when he was convicted on four counts of the aggravated assault of his wife.
He was sentenced to a nine-month non-parole period for the assaults, including two in front of a child.
The court heard that in one of the attacks, he pulled his since-estranged wife out of bed by her hair onto the floor.
PETAR PANTIC
Petar Vladimir Pantic was one of the youngest of the Brimble 8, and friends with Dragan Losic and Charlie Kambouris.
Aged 29, Pantic would be described as the likely camera operator who filmed Dianne Brimble having sex with Mark Wilhelm, and took close-up shots of her body.
He urged Leo Silvestri to sell their story to 60 Minutes and believed they could get a $1million 'truth deal' with police.
Pantic has tried to get rich with other schemes since his infamy over the Brimble matter.
Pantic was director of three companies registered to his parents' address, Citnap Investments, Viper (SA) and Healthappiness, but the projects did not succeed.
In 2008, he failed to appear in in Adelaide Magistrates Court on customs charges for allegedly importing explicit DVDs into Australia.
The court heard the summons could not be served on Pantic because he left Australia on a one-way ticket to Serbia.
In 2009, he was fined $6000 for importing the videos which depicted pornography and bestiality.
In 2011, he sustained a head injury during a brawl at an Adelaide nightclub when members of the Finks Motorcycle Club started a fight with the Hells Angels using bar stools and glasses as weapons.
Petar Pantic (above) when he gave evidence at a Sydney Coroner's Court hearing into the death of Dianne Brimble from an overdose of of the date rape drug GHB
Pantic, now aged in his early 50s, has since been convicted of offences including possession of a controlled drug and affray
Pantic now appears to live in Thailand, from where he has posted photographs of himself covered in tattoos and, Vladimir Putin style, bareback on a horse
Pantic would eventually plead guilty to affray. In 2012 he pleaded not guilty to two counts of trafficking in a controlled drug.
In 2021, he was convicted of possessing a controlled drug at his Adelaide home.
Pantic now appears to live in Thailand, from where he has posted photographs of himself covered in tattoos and riding bareback on a horse, Vladimir Putin style.
In written posts, Pantic says 'the parties here are insane' and 'don't know if coming back'.
LUIGI VITALE
Notorious Adelaide drug dealer and Rebels bikie figure Luigi Vitale was asleep during the events which befell Ms Brimble, having suffered seasickness, and left the ship's nightclub club early.
The coroner would exclude Vitale from her scathing assessment of six of the men being not credible.
However, Vitale would later make news when his luxury beachfront home at Henley Beach in Adelaide was firebombed and police deemed it 'suspicious'.
It was believed rival bikie gang the Hells Angels carried out two attacks on Vitale's house over tree days.
Vitale had appeared in court on drugs and money laundering charges in 2009, but they were dropped in favour of lesser charges of possessing a prescription drug, possessing a prohibited weapon and failing to properly store ammunition.
He was fined $1,000.
Then in 2018, police dramatically raided the Henley Beach mansion on suspicions the drug Fantasy was being manufactured at the home.
Luigi Vitale appeared to live a happy family life, but he was involved in a bikie gang and was charged with commercial supply of the drug Fantasy before dying last year, aged 59
They alleged 15 litres of GHB had been seized from a car leaving the property two hours earlier, and arrested another man.
Police claim they arrived to find Vitale 'pouring a substance down a drain'.
Vitale was then the subject of a proceeds of crime battle over his multimillion dollar property portfolio, including the beachfront house.
A Sydney finance company sought to register mortgages over the properties, but the South Australian Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has appealed a court order so as to sell the properties to recover them as confiscated criminal assets.
Luigi Vitale's luxury beachfront mansion in Adelaide was firebombed by a rival bikie gang and then he was arrested allegedly pouring liquid Fantasy down the drain after a drug bust
Vitale, who died in July last year after being charged with large commercial drug trafficking of the same substance which killed Brimble, was remembered by his family as an 'adored father' of five
At the time, Vitale was on home detention bail on one count of trafficking in a large quantity of a controlled drug.
Court documents revealed Vitale owed Sydney finance company CEG Direct Securities $1.2 million.
However, in July last year, Vitale died at the age of 59. A memorial noted he was the 'adored father' of five children and 'cherished nonno' (grandfather) of three.
CHARLIE KAMBOURIS
Sakelarious 'Charlie' Kambouris was an Adelaide Zen Do Kai martial arts instructor who had been a kickboxer in his teens and twenties.
He was a longtime friend of Dragan Losic and although he was asleep in the neighbouring cabin when the events took place, it was on his Sony digital camera they were recorded.
Following Ms Brimble being pronounced dead, someone tried to delete the sordid photos and a video. Then the camera's memory card was dropped and Kambouris reported it missing.
A young boy found it and handed it in but, in a windfall for police, when Kambouris came forward to collect it, it had vanished again, stolen by a ship employee to use in his camera.
When the employee realised what he had and gave it to police, they were able to retrieve some of the images.
This gave them, the coroner reported, 'hard evidence that depicts the fate of Ms Brimble and the approximate time of her victimisation'.
Martial arts instructor Charlie Kambouris (left) went to collect his Sony camera's memory card from the purser, but luckily for police, the car had been taken and detectives were able to retrieve some of the sordid images taken of Dianne Brimble
Charlie Kambouris, an Adelaide Zen Do Kai martial arts instructor who has since died, was seen out partying after the eighth anniversary of Ms Brimble's death
Kambouris told Dianne Brimble's 2006 inquest she was a 'risk taker', saying his family had been badly affected by the event.
'I think that there was a 40-year-old woman who had the option to leave, decided to stay, partied with some young men, and had a misadventure that has brought what could have been a happier time into a chaotic time.'
In 2010, Kambouris was among four of the Brimble 8 seen out partying as Dianne's family had just marked the eighth anniversary of her death.
In high spirits, along with partners and friends, he and Dragan Losic, Petar Pantic and Luigi Vitale laughed loudly, embraced and high-fived at Adelaide's House of Chow over an 11-course Chinese banquet which lasted four hours.
A little over five years later, Kambouris himself would be dead at the age of 56. Martial arts instructor Bob Jones lauded Kambouris on Facebook as 'a special person' whose 'spirit will live on'.
Among the responses to Mr Jones' post was one saying that Kambouris had been 'taken in his prime' and another praising his 'old-school respect for people. Still opened the door for the ladies'.
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