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The family of missing Brit Sarm Heslop have spoken of their anger after the police chief overseeing the investigation into her disappearance quit amid allegations of corruption.
Relatives of the Southampton-born flight attendant said they were ‘shocked but not surprised’ to learn that US Virgin Islands police commissioner Ray Martinez had quit.
Martinez resigned after being told he was the target of an investigation by US prosecutors which reportedly relates to a cyber-security contract awarded to his force.
Sarm’s family said that Martinez has ‘routinely ignored our pleas’ for a meeting about the disappearance of Sarm, who was last seen in 2021 in the USVI.
They demanded that the territory’s governor Albert Bryan show his commitment to finding Sarm by agreeing to meet with them.