जयपुर में जन्मीं ब्रिटिश एक्ट्रेस गिब्सन की मर्डर मिस्ट्री: जहाज से अटलांटिक महासागर में फेंकी लाश, हत्यारा बोला- संबंध बनाते हुए मौत हुई तो घबरा गया

It is the year 1947

British actress Gay Gibson, 21, set sail across the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Town to the United Kingdom. Gay Gibson, traveling in first class, was given room number 126. However, on October 18, 1947, a staff cleaner who came to clean noticed that he was not in his room. There were stains on the bedsheet in his room and his belongings were also nowhere to be seen. On looking around, it was found that the porthole (ship’s window) of his room was open. A search was conducted throughout the ship for Gay Gibson, but she was missing.

The night before, she was seen dancing and having fun with her fellow passengers. Late at night he had called the Captain for help, but after that no one saw him.

The search for him was never completed, but he was declared dead on the statement of the ship’s captain. Neither his body was ever found, nor was the mystery of his death solved. According to English law in the world, this is the first case in which the murderer was sentenced to death without the body being found.

But the murderer’s good fortune was such that even before he was hanged, the death sentence was changed. The case was so controversial that even the then British Prime Minister had expressed regret over not hanging Gay Gibson’s murderer.

This murder is famous throughout the world as the Porthole Murder, although Gay Gibson’s body was never found, nor was the cause of his death revealed.

Today in 3 chapters of Ansuni Dastan, read the story of the murder of Jaipur-born British actress Gay Gibson, which remains unsolved even after 77 years.

Had set out on a ship trip from South Africa to London for the next show

Gay Gibson was born on 16 June 1926 in Jaipur city of British India. This was the period in slave India, when many Englishmen came and settled in India. Gay Gibson’s real name was Eileen Isabel Ronnie Gibson, which was changed after appearing in films.

Photograph of Gay Gibson’s play Golden Boy, staged in South Africa, in which she was seen with actor Eric Boone.

In October 1947, 21-year-old Gay Gibson went from London to South Africa with popular actress Doreen Mantel for a theater tour. His next stage show was scheduled to take place in London’s West End theatre. After the successful show in South Africa, she left for London on the Union Castle Line ship MV Durban Castle. The ship, which started its journey on October 10, was scheduled to reach the United Kingdom via Cape Town, South Africa, Southampton, England.

The ship MV Durban Castle started the voyage on 10 October 1947.

Gay Gibson was a first class passenger on the ship, assigned cabin number 126 on B-Deck. The very beautiful Gay Gibson spent most of her time on the ship with the first class passengers. While spending about a week on the ship, Gay Gibson became well acquainted with everyone. On the night of 17 October, he had dinner with all the passengers and everyone enjoyed dancing. At around 11.30 pm, some of his friends dropped him at cabin number 126.

Cleaning worker gave information about missing

Next morning, on October 18, female cleaning worker Eileen Fields had reached cabin number 126 to clean. The door was open, so she entered the cabin. He noticed that there was no stuff in the room, while the bed was stained. The porthole (window) of the ship was open there. When the situation seemed suspicious, Eileen immediately contacted Duty Officer in Command Patte and informed him about it. The ship was searched for Gay Gibson, but when no information was found about him, Officer Patte started an investigation to find Gay Gibson.

The inquiry into the case first started with the ship’s duty steward James Camb. In fact, during the journey, James was continuously growing closer to Gay Gibson. The ship’s staff were not allowed to interact much with the passengers, due to which James had to be reprimanded by his superiors. However, despite this, he was often seen with Gay Gibson.

James Camb was a steward of the ship Darban Castle, aged 30 in 1947.

When James was questioned about the disappearance of Gay Gibson, he flatly denied having anything to do with the incident. However, James came under suspicion due to the statement of watchman Frederick Steer, who was on guard on the same ship that night.

At 3 a.m. help was called to Gay Gibson’s cabin.

Watchman Frederick Steer told the officers that he was on duty on the intervening night of October 17-18. It was about 3 o’clock when he noticed that two lights (red and green) were on outside Gay Gibson’s cabin number 126. These lights were installed for the convenience of first class passengers. If a passenger pressed the red light button, the duty steward would come to attend him, while the second green light meant that the duty steward had also been called.

That night, both lights in Gay Gibson’s room were on, which was quite strange. Usually only one passenger light was on. Frederick, who was on duty, arrived to help Gay Gibson after finding the matter strange. When they knocked, James opened the door. He opened the door only halfway and said everything was fine.

Watchman Frederick thought that James was on duty and had come to attend the passenger. After being consoled, Frederick left and the next morning Gay Gibson went missing.

James was told that he was last seen with Gay Gibson, which was confirmed by the statement of watchman Frederick. Hearing this, he narrated such a story of Iqbal-e-crime, which neither the officers nor the doctors believed.

Ship’s staff confesses, says Gay Gibson died while having sex

James Camb told the officers that the two had developed a close friendship. That night, both of them had consensual sex with each other, but while having sex, Gay Gibson suddenly died. He felt that no one would believe him, so in order to avoid punishment and fear of losing his job, he threw Gibson’s body out of the porthole (window).

It was difficult to believe James’s statement, because there was no mention of any such disease anywhere. By this time the ship was 140 kilometers away from Durban Castle off the west coast of Africa (Guinea Bissau). Officer Patte immediately gave orders to turn the ship around and search for Gay Gibson’s body. He reported the incident to the London Union Castle Line and asked for police officers to be dispatched to Southampton.

Gay Gibson’s room was sealed. As soon as they reached the coast, the Southampton Police along with the British Police started investigating the case. They detained James Cabe and began a forensic examination of Gay Gibson’s room.

Replica of Gay Gibson’s cabin number 126 and porthole.

During investigation, urine marks were found on the bedsheet.

In the forensic report, pathologist Dennis Hockling revealed that the bedsheets in cabin number 126 were stained with urine. The investigation noted that urination at the time of death is possible only when strangulation occurs. However, Dennis, who made the report, said that in some cases this could also happen due to natural reasons.

During the hearing of the case, James Camb confessed to the murder, but despite changing his statement four times, he remained adamant that Gay Gibson was dead before being thrown from the ship. Finally, on March 22, 1948, James Camb was sentenced to death for the murder of Gay Gibson.

Blueprint of the Durban Castle ship.

This was a rare case of its kind, in which someone was found guilty without a body being found. Some historians say that this was the first such case in English law.

It would not be wrong to call James Camb’s good fortune that he was not given the death sentence despite being sentenced, that at the time he was sentenced to death, the death penalty was under consideration in the Parliament and the Home Secretary, at the time of discussion of the case, had given all the pending It was decided to grant pardon in death penalty cases.

The then British Prime Minister had said – Justice was not done

After the death sentence given to James Camb was stayed, the then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said in one of his speeches, the House of Commons by its votes saved the life of a cruel and sensual murderer who killed a poor girl on one of the ships. Thrown from the porthole (window) to the shark, whom she raped.

Gay Gibson was just 21 years old at the time of her death.

James Camb was released in this case in 1959. However, despite this, some girls filed a complaint accusing him of indecent assault. In this case James was jailed again. In this case also he was released in 1978. James Camb died of a heart attack in July 1979, just a year after his release.

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