'I would get off any way I could': Mystery over woman's cruise ship fall deepens
The woman who fell overboard from a cruise ship appears to have attracted sympathy from an unlikely source – her partner’s ex-wife.
British tourist Kay Longstaff was found floating some 83 kilometres off Croatia’s coast after she fell from the seventh deck of the Norwegian Star shortly before midnight on Saturday.
Just before 10am on Sunday – 10 hours since she fell overboard – Ms Longstaff was found treading water in the Adriatic Sea, several kilometres from the position she went overboard.
“It is a real miracle that she is alive,” captain of the Croatian rescue ship, Lovro Oreskovic, said after the 46-year-old was pulled from the ocean.
But the story surrounding Ms Longstaff’s fall is unclear, with witnesses reporting that she jumped from the ship following an argument with her partner, Craig Rayment.
Mr Rayment’s ex-wife has reportedly revealed that if she was in Ms Longstaff’s shoes there’s a chance she would’ve jumped too.
“If I was on a ship with him I would get off any way I could,” Kelly Rayment told The Mirror.
“Craig’s not a very nice person after he’s been drinking. So him going on a cruise is a recipe for disaster.
“I can imagine what she went through.”
The pair were only married for a year before they split and are reportedly in the process of getting a divorce.
“I’m proud of myself for building up the courage to leave him and saying no when he begged me to come back,” she told The Mirror.
When Ms Longstaff was found, she continued to complain to her rescuers about her boyfriend, according to the captain who saved her.
“She was talking about the boyfriend. I can’t tell you exactly what she said because it’s all under investigation, but she didn’t say anything positive,” Captain Lovro Oreskovic said.
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Ms Longstaff was admitted to hospital in Pula in Croatia but has since been picked up by Mr Rayment and taken to Venice, photographs in the Daily Mail appear to show.
It is thought the couple have now travelled back to Spain.
