Gael Cameron has spoken publicly for the first time since her Below Deck castmate and former partner left Australia, where an arrest warrant was issued after he was convicted of assaulting her.

As Nathan Gallagher continues to evade authorities, Cameron, 30, who shares a young child with him, told supporters she has been “quietly healing and rebuilding” in the aftermath of the case.

The Below Deck star shared the message on Instagram Stories after attending court, where a judge found Gallagher guilty of choking and asphyxiating her while their baby son was lying beside her. Although she did not mention Gallagher by name, her post appeared to refer to the distressing ordeal.

“Hey guys I just want to say thank you so much for all the support you’ve shown Kayden and I,” Cameron wrote to her followers.

“It’s been a tough season but I have been using the past few months to quietly heal and rebuild for little man and myself.

‘I really appreciate the love you have sent our way especially with everything that’s come to light and I’m really working on finding myself and moving forward.’

Gallagher and Ms Cameron met on Below Deck Mediterranean Season Nine as deckhands, and continued filming for Seasons 10 and 11, including scenes now showing with their child after Ms Cameron gave birth to Kayden in June last year. 

US television network Bravo revealed that Gallagher had been dropped from the series and it would no longer be working with him. 

Below Deck fans from around the world have called on Bravo to go one step further and dump the episodes featuring Ms Cameron and Gallagher.

‘I can’t believe Bravo has not addressed this given he’s the star of a show currently airing,’ one wrote on Reddit.

‘Get this piece of s*** off my TV,’ another wrote.

‘A black screen before the episode saying they don’t support his behaviour … would be the bare minimum and there’s not even that,’ a third added.

‘They should just edit him out entirely or just can the season.’

Social media users have also dredged up old comments he made following the Bondi Beach massacre. 

Gallagher was on a boat tagging sharks off Bondi when the shooting began in the early evening of December 14.

He helped people swimming in the ocean onto his boat, then posted photos and words on Instagram, taking a swipe at Muslims, the faith of the alleged shooters, Naveed and Sajid Akram.

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‘Terrifying and disgusting behaviour. Anyone who thinks it’s okay to let these people into any other country than their own can go f*** themselves,’ the post read.

‘These acts paint a picture for all of them. OUT! Out of every country. Out of Europe and out of Australia.’

The comment immediately sparked outrage, with one person demanding an apology, and describing the content as ‘racist’ and ‘xenophobic’.

Gallagher defended the post, saying it was an ’emotional response’ and ‘these people’ referred to terrorists and criminals.

He added would was not ‘apologising for it’ and pointed out ‘Gael’s family are Muslims’.  

After the Bondi shootings, Gallagher went on Irish radio and featured in Belfast and his home county of Donegal media talking about his actions.

‘If I went home and I turned a blind eye to it I wouldn’t have been able to sleep at night if I didn’t contribute to saving a few people so there wasn’t a thought in my mind to turn away,’ he said.

Gallagher and Ms Cameron’s boy was six months old when, according to a sickening set of NSW Police facts, he lay next to his mother as Gallagher brutally choked, trapped, punched and strangled Ms Cameron.

Gallagher, who is also the subject of a police arrest warrant in his native Ireland for failing to appear last year on the alleged 2022 assault of a man, is sought by NSW Police.

If he arrived back in Sydney he would be arrested immediately and would be subject to a prison sentence for his three offences against Ms Cameron: assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault and intentionally choke person without consent.

He violently attacked Ms Cameron in their Melrose Park apartment in northwestern Sydney on the night of Boxing Day last year after a verbal argument.

The facts say that while assaulting her and ‘preventing the victim from breathing and making noise, [he] held the victim down on the bedroom floor, wrapping his legs around the victim to better control her’.

Ms Cameron turned up at Burwood Local Court last Tuesday to testify at a hearing into the charges listed before Judge Janine Lacy.

When prosecutors told Her Honour that Gallagher had skipped the hearing, and the country and that he was ‘offshore’ she convicted him in his absence and ordered the arrest warrant.

Scathing comments about Gallagher online included the fact that he released a statement minimising his guilt, saying there was ‘another side to the story’ and he had video and texts to support that.   

Ms Cameron has a Scottish father, Allan Cameron, and an Indonesian mother, Sulianti Boenyanto whose heritage she proudly represented during the 2018 Pageant of the World contest, which she won.

The model and TV star has a fashion and design degree from the Sydney University of Technology. 

Daily Mail understands Gallagher risks arrest should he return to the Republic of Ireland. An unconfirmed sighting of him placed him recently in Northern Ireland.

A Canadian billionaire heiress and her former reality television star husband are facing allegations that they cheated a close friend out of $2 million, according to a newly filed lawsuit.

Brendan Fitzpatrick, 38, known for appearing on Rich Kids of Beverly Hills, and his wife, Chloe de Serigny, 31, the granddaughter of the late Canadian financier Paul Desmarais, are accused in the complaint of securing a major loan from a wealthy friend and then failing to repay it.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court and obtained by the Daily Mail, claims that Max Jan Fowles-Pazdro, 46, says Fitzpatrick “exploited their personal friendship” to obtain $2 million in January 2025 for a real estate venture in the United Kingdom.

“Following repeated and increasingly desperate pleas from [Brendan] — [Fowles-Pazdro’s] then-close friend, [Fowles-Pazdro] dug into his and his wife’s life savings and funded a $2 million bridge loan that Brendan promised to begin repaying within six weeks,” the filing states.

The complaint alleges that “two years have since elapsed” and that none of the money has been repaid. With the couple’s savings depleted, Fowles-Pazdro and his wife are now “teeter[ing] on financial ruin,” according to the lawsuit.

Fowles-Pazdro’s lawsuit claims that the Fitzpatricks are ‘beleaguered on all fronts,’ but ‘continue to live – and present themselves to others as living – in the lap of luxury.’

The court document included a recent social media post from the couple on a yacht in the Mediterranean. 

Fowles-Pazdro describes the couple as ‘devoid of any worldly cares while yachting through the Mediterranean.’

The lawsuit claims that the couple has repeatedly promised to pay Fowles-Pazdro back, and even suggested they would ask Chloe’s mother for help with the repayment.

‘I am going to fix everything this week,’ Brendan allegedly texted Fowles-Pazdro, according to the lawsuit.

In another text, Brendan allegedly wrote: ‘We will absolutely have this resolved tomorrow [sic]; if not, I will be borrowing from my mother-in-law… We get funds by 2, or I will get them from her [sic]. I will say it’s life or death.’

At one point, Chloe allegedly told Fowles-Pazdro: ‘My mom had a serious conversation with Brendan; she said my [sic] March 10 we’re switching boats if nothing happens… and figuring out how to pay everyone back and get the f*** out.’

Chloe’s mother, Sophie Desmarais, is the trustee of her grandfather’s fortune. Paul Desmarais was chairman and chief executive officer of Power Corporation of Canada, a financial services company, until 1996.

The Desmarais family has an estimated net worth of $4.5 billion, and at the time of his death in 2013, Paul was Canada’s fourth-richest person.

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Brendan and Chloe wed at a lavish ceremony in California’s wine country in 2023 which was featured in People magazine. They share one child, according to social media.

Fowles-Pazdro alleged that the couple had mutual friends while living in California, and they began spending more time together in 2024 while living in Miami.

‘The parties grew close, bonding over their imminent toddlers and other shared commonalities. Brendan referred often to [Fowles-Pazdro] as his best friend, telling him that his family is “also my family,”‘ the court document stated. 

Fowles-Pazdro and his wife spent the summer of 2024 at the Fitzpatricks’ rental in the South of France, and stayed at the Montreal home of Chloe’s mother that September.

The lawsuit stated: ‘During these lavish trips, [the Fitzpatricks] laid the groundwork to defraud and steal from [Fowles-Pazdro] and his family.’

Months later, in January 2025, Brendan allegedly claimed he needed the loan for the real estate project in the UK, and the Fowles-Pazdros paid up. 

The Fowles-Pazdros lawsuit seeks damages, including all attorneys’ fees and the loan plus interest. 

It comes as Brendan is facing a separate lawsuit accusing him of running an $80 million Ponzi scheme through his mining and resource management company, Carbonatik.

Brendan’s attorneys filed an answer largely denying many of the lawsuit’s claims and admitting some basic facts relating to agreements and certain communications.

They also filed a counterclaim accusing the plaintiff of failing to fulfill their obligations. 

The case remains ongoing, and on September 3, Brendan filed a motion requesting to change his legal representation.

The Daily Mail contacted Fitzpatrick and his attorneys, as well as Fowles-Pazdro’s lawyer, for comment. 

After Maree Vermont’s Airbnb was consumed by fire and her remains were left so badly burned they could not be identified, the man staying in her home raised a question with police that investigators did not expect.

Only hours before, flames had torn through Ms Vermont’s property. Timothy Loosemore, a 62-year-old Englishman, told authorities he had survived because he had been away from the house, taking “a walk to gather firewood”.

Loosemore had been renting one of the spare rooms at Ms Vermont’s home in Goldie, about 70km north of Melbourne, through Airbnb.

The house was more than just a rental listing for the 60-year-old. A surveyor by profession, Ms Vermont had spent around 30 years carefully creating the property with her former husband, and it was regarded as her pride and joy.

But Loosemore was not merely a short-term guest. The court heard he had previously been involved in a “casual relationship” with Ms Vermont — and had hoped it would become something more serious.

After the blaze, he was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital, and as he was being treated by medical staff, police arrived to quiz him about the tragedy.

But Loosemore had some questions of his own, and his first was not about the fate of Ms Vermont – but her dog Maxie. 

‘Who’s looking after Maxie?’ Loosemore asked, as captured in footage from the officer’s body-worn camera, and played back in court.

‘I don’t know,’ the officer replied. ‘Who normally looks after him?’ 

‘Normally Maree,’ Loosemore said. ‘He’s 14 years old so he’s got some dental problems so he’s not a well dog … I suppose Maree’s looking after him?’

It was only then that Loosemore asked: ‘Is Maree all right? Is she?’ 

The court heard Loosemore even expressed more concern for his bicycle than the woman he had killed and may even have burnt alive. 

Pictures from the crime scene reveal a sinister kitchen knife blackened with soot among the charred remains inside the cottage where Ms Vermont died.

Forensics later found DNA traces on Ms Vermont’s blood on Loosemore’s clothes. Everything inside, including Ms Vermont’s body, was burnt beyond recognition. 

Nearby lay fuel canisters he was suspected of using to trigger the fatal blaze. 

Her ornate iron spiral staircase could also be seen lying on the ground, twisted out of shape by the intense heat of the inferno.

During a pre-sentence hearing on Thursday, Supreme Court of Victoria Justice Andrew Tinney said Loosemore showed little concern in the hours after Ms Vermont’s death. 

‘His only concern was for himself and his bicycle and his other possessions,’ he said. ‘That struck me as being somewhat unnerving.

‘Here he was, a person who claimed to be innocent, who had been involved in a relationship of sorts with Ms Vermont, and he knew that the house was on fire and that she was inside the house.’ 

The impact of that fire on Ms Vermont’s body made it impossible for forensic experts to determine her cause of death.

As a result, two Supreme Court of Victoria juries were unable to conclude she had been murdered.

Instead, Loosemore will be sentenced on Friday for Ms Vermont’s manslaughter. 

Crown prosecutor Mark Gibson, KC, told the jury Loosemore ‘snapped’ when his pleas for an intimate relationship were repeatedly rejected by Ms Vermont, after an earlier ‘brief sexual dalliance’. 

Mr Gibson said Loosemore violently assaulted Ms Vermont before he covered up the crime by starting the fire.

‘He did something horrific to Maree Vermont,’ he told the court. ‘Something he needed to conceal from the world.

‘That something was him physically attacking Maree inside that house during which he killed Maree Vermont. An attack with murderous intent.’

Ms Vermont’s blood was later found all over Loosemore’s pants and T-shirt, and the jury heard Ms Vermont had fought desperately for her life.

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Her body was found face down in the living room, where three kitchen knives were also discovered.

She never left the house despite five easily accessible exits – and even the dog Maxie escaped.

The jury heard the severity of the inferno was consistent with flammable liquid having been spread, with petrol components detected on a mat and blanket in the house.

Moderately evaporated petrol was also found on Loosemore’s clothing and shoes.

‘It’s a very interesting situation. There were those knives there and there is the fact that she bled profusely,’ Justice Tinney noted. 

‘Obviously when she’s close to him because it got on his clothing. 

‘Because he has never told the truth about what occurred, the mechanism of the actual death will remain unclear to everyone other than Mr Loosemore.’

The DNA blood evidence was not shown to the first jury – which deliberated its verdict for three weeks before they were discharged – because of a ‘workload issue’ at Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine.

The second jury heard Loosemore’s lucid recollections of what happened that night in the hours immediately after the fire.

But the court also heard he later suffered near-total amnesia when questioned by Homicide Squad detectives and forensic doctors. 

In the aftermath of the fire, Loosemore gave several accounts of events in conversations with neighbours, paramedics, police and a doctor. 

He told them he had briefly left the house and returned to find it ablaze.

He told neighbour Peter Greenham he had a ‘small argument’ with Ms Vermont, that he went outside to get some wood, and when he came back the fire was too hot to handle. 

Another neighbour, Kynan Share, was given a similar story before Loosemore added: ‘When I’ve come back, the whole place went up.’

But he claimed to another neighbour he had been upstairs asleep, got up to put wood on the fire, and found the house fully alight on his return.

Defence barrister Christopher Farrington told the court Loosemore had been consistent that he had ‘no memory of what took place’, which is why he took no responsibility or showed remorse.

‘Isn’t it all much more consistent with a person who has simply been refusing to tell the truth about what occurred?’ the judge asked Mr Farrington.

Mr Farrington told the court Loosemore was born in Somerset in the United Kingdom and raised in a small rural farming community.

He worked in road construction before establishing his own civil construction business, which operated for about 11 years and at times involved more than 40 workers on roads and bridges. 

Changes in UK employment law led to the business being wound up and he later worked as a sole operator.

The court heard Loosemore had been married twice, with three children from his second marriage, who now live in the UK.

The family lived in Western Australia around 2004-2007 and became Australian citizens before later returning to the UK. 

Loosemore had not been in full-time employment since about 2004, living off investments from the sale of his successful business.

In September 2022, he returned to Australia with his son for a cycling trip around the country. 

After his son left, Loosemore continued alone, staying at farmstay properties where he performed work in exchange for board and food, and Ms Vermont’s property was one of those.

The court heard he had no prior criminal history and people who knew him before the incident, including some of Ms Vermont’s friends and family, described him as polite, calm and helpful. 

On Thursday, Ms Vermont’s loved ones packed the court to confront Loosemore and express the impact his actions had on their lives. 

Outside court, her three sons described their mother as a very peaceful, loving and caring person.

‘It’s a very hard day,’ Darcy Vermont told reporters.

‘But it’s bringing some sense of closure to be able to get up in court and have our voices heard.’

A GP widely known by critics as “Doctor Death” did not bring his so-called “suicide collar” into the UK after raising concerns that border officials could confiscate it.

Dr Philip Nitschke, a highly divisive figure in the assisted dying debate, said he chose to leave the device in Holland before travelling to Britain for a speaking engagement, fearing it might be seized by customs.

His visit had already prompted a backlash, with MPs and campaigners urging Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to block Dr Nitschke from entering the country altogether.

The Australian doctor had been expected to stage a live demonstration of the Kairos “suicide collar” during an event in London on Saturday.

Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail at the packed gathering, Dr Nitschke appeared in Britain just six days before MPs are due to vote at Second Reading on Lauren Edwards’ revived assisted dying Bill.

He was on stage at an Exit Workshop in west London, which was packed, with almost every seat taken by a largely elderly audience who were considering assisted suicide.

Dr Nitschke, the controversial founder of Swiss euthanasia organisation Exit International, defended the device.

The collar, called ‘Kairos’, consists of two balloons that exert pressure on the carotid artery, leading first to unconsciousness and then to death.

Earlier this year, Dr Nitschke said that he would conduct the first assisted suicide using the collar on a woman in Switzerland who would be his first ‘test subject’.

Devices could be legal to use for assisted suicides here if new Bill passes.

He told the Daily Mail: ‘I have left the device in the Netherlands. I feared it would be stopped at customs. We are under pressure from authorities about what they call “giving dangerous information to vulnerable people”.

‘It’s a difficult environment.

‘The device is not expensive to make but we are currently in the testing phase and it would be a real setback to lose it.’

Dr Nitschk shrugged off the controversy around his visit and the device itself.

He said that the interest in his device and the visit to London was the result of the political deadlock over legalising assisted dying.

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He said: ‘People are a little worried or frustrated by the slow pace of legislated change in the country. So they often look around and ask what else is available.’

Carlos Cabrera, a representative from the Swiss euthanasia clinic, Athanasios, also spoke at the event, explaining the process of an assisted suicide in the country.

He said: ‘The Swiss have a unique law and don’t restrict it to just Swiss nationals.

‘Switzerland lets other people benefit from this very progressive legislation.

‘When you touch the ground in Switzerland you have indirectly or directly the right to die.

‘We support people to die without selfish intentions.’

Under Swiss law, there are few restrictions on undergoing an assisted death, with a terminal condition not being a requirement.

‘When you have the mental capacity to leave this world, you can do it,’ Cabrera says.

Mr Cabrera told the Mail that between 40 and 60 people from the UK have chosen to end their lives through his organisation.

One relative of a person considering using the device, said: ‘My main concern about all of this is what would happen to us when we returned to Britain. What legal consequences would there be for going to Switzerland with them?’

But Mr Cabrera explained that he has never seen problems with family members being prosecuted.

‘All information on what happens in Switzerland, stays in Switzerland. We cannot give information to UK authorities.’

After the discussion about the option of travelling to Switzerland, many in the audience stayed on for a ‘do-it-yourself guide’ to assisted suicide given by Nitschke.

Participants had to sign waivers to declare that they had not been influenced by Nitschke in order to take part in the talk.

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