Crimal Misnduct: Gay Gibson: Murr on the High Seas

Contents:

• GEO GAY GIBSON WAS THROWN OUT OF CISE SHIP PORTHOLE AND NEVER SEEN AGA - BUT WAS REALLY MURR? SENSATNAL NEW CLAIMS ON ATH OF ACTRS
• GAY GIBSON
• THE MURR OF GAY GIBSON: A SHOCKG TE CRIME STORY

GEO GAY GIBSON WAS THROWN OUT OF CISE SHIP PORTHOLE AND NEVER SEEN AGA - BUT WAS REALLY MURR? SENSATNAL NEW CLAIMS ON ATH OF ACTRS

Geo Gay Gibson was thrown out of cise ship porthole and never seen aga - but was really murr? Sensatnal new claims on ath of actrsEXCLUSIVE: Dpe handsome ck steward Jam Camb beg sentenced to ath for Gay Gibson's so-lled ‘porthole murr’ 1948 - for many remas a ld seGay was the dghter of an English bsman who dreamed of makg London’s Wt EndThe “Porthole murr” was one of the most sensatnal s of the 20th century, volvg a betiful actrs who vanished om a luxury ler 1947 after a sexual enunter wh a lowly ck steward.

Although Jam Camb, a man wh a history of sex asslts on young women, was nvicted of murrg Gay Gibson, 21, a new book suggts she may have died of natural . Gay was on the Durban Castle ler, sailg om South Ai to Southampton, wh dreams of makg London’s Wt End, when she disappeared. Jam Camb pictured the day after he was charged wh the murr of Gay Gibson.

GAY GIBSON

Gay, pictured cir 1945, disappeared while travellg on the Unn-Castle ler 1947. Camb was found si by a night watchman after alarm bells were phed om bi Gay’s bed.

Camb was arrted at Southampton and claimed Gay suffered a f and died durg nsensual sex, but admted panickg and phg her body through the porthole.

His trial heard Gay’s ure was found the b, wh her blood and saliva, suggtg she had been strangled. The fil clud evince of Gay’s poor health, wh iends notg how she had a “weak cht” and had fatg fs, when her mouth, hands and nails turned blue. Actrs Doreen Mantle, who was later Mrs Warboys One Foot In The Grave, worked wh Gay weeks before she died.

THE MURR OF GAY GIBSON: A SHOCKG TE CRIME STORY

She nfirmed what others said about Gay’s health, which was never mentned at trial. (Photo by Bentley Archive/Popperfoto via Getty Imag/Getty Imag)Actrs Gay Gibson, cir 1945. Gay Gibson, the vanished young woman, was an enchantg burn-haired, ky-skned stage actrs, only twenty-one years old, who had left her home South Ai aboard the Durban Castle orr, she told people, to fd her fame and fortune stttg upon the boards England, where she had origally rid wh her peripatetic workg class, evangelil fay.

Two days later, on October 26, Jimmy Camb was formally arrted and charged wh Gay Gibson’s slayg, albe the nvenient absence of her body. Webb and Wheeler’s fictnal solutn of the Gay Gibson se proved too hot to handle the aftermath of Jimmy Camb’s trial.

Gay Gibson’s alleged murrer, Jam Camb, origally haled om Waterfoot, a small l town southeast Lanshire, England. Rplennt his whe ck uniform, Jimmy Camb, notor among the crew as the shipboard Lothar ( a nod to the famo Don Juan he was dubbed “Don Jam”/“Don Jimmy”), was known to put sexual mov on attractive young woman passengers—a penchant which would place the ck steward grave legal peril of his life after Gay Gibson tragilly went overboard. Brown, Gay Gibson “attracted men like be to a honeyb”—though lovers and iends alike had been ncerned over Gibson’s health, particularly her ocsnal fatg fs, and found her temperamental.