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MELBOURNE - The ex-husband of Dianne Brimble has expressed anger that it has taken six years for charges to be recommended over her death on a cruise ship in 2002.
The New South Wales Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) yesterday recommended three men should be charged over the death of the Brisbane mother-of-three from a toxic combination of alcohol and date rape drug fantasy.
Mark Brimble said it had taken far too long to get to this stage but he knows his family still has a long way to go until they finally see justice.
"No person in this world will want to have to get up every day for six years and have to answer to their own children how their mother may or may not have died," Mr Brimble told reporters.
"That would make you angry."
Adelaide man Mark Wilhelm, who had sex with 42-year-old Ms Brimble hours before she died on board the P&O liner Pacific Sky, should be charged with manslaughter and supplying a prohibited drug, the DPP said.
It also recommended Leo Silvestri and Ryan Kuchel, the two men who shared Wilhelm's cabin where Ms Brimble died, should be charged with perverting the course of justice.
"We have had to deal with some appalling things that have come out of the inquest," Mr Brimble said.
"We've had to deal with it knowing that every piece of this will help us know what happened on that night. That's all we want.
"How long do people have to wait for justice?"
The DPP's recommendation came 14 months after the conclusion of the 66-day coronial inquest into Ms Brimble's death which found there was enough evidence to lay charges.
- AAP
