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She read out a series of messages sent to Renae from “Brayden Spiteri aka Camila Zeidan” which show a sophisticated and lengthy campaign of manipulation. Ms Truscott said that Camilla Zeidan had claimed she and Renae had invented the Brayden character together to hide a “secret lesbian relationship” between the two women.īut she said there was no evidence of this, that “Renae believed Brayden was real” and had engaged in an intimate relationship, which included phone sex, even thought they hadn’t met.ĭespite a friend telling Renae “Brayden was not real” and a boyfriend showing Brayden and Camila’s messages had the “same punctuation and grammar”, she insisted he was real. Ms Truscott said that Camila Zeidan had later gone out with Renae’s mother Teresa to look for the missing Renae, and the pair had driven to a house where she claimed the sister of the fictitious Brayden lived.
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Hours after Brayden ended the romance with Ms Marsden, Ms Truscott said, Renae got dressed, put on make-up, drove to The Gap and wrote on the windows of her car that she loved Brayden.Īfter placing her shoes neatly in a gun turret, she sent three text messages from the cliff top, “threw her phone off the cliff and then shortly thereafter herself”. Ms Truscott said a friend had observed “red marks and bruises” on Renae from “being pushed by Camila”. The court heard Renae had told her mother in July 2013 that she was “frightened of” Zeidan who had “punched her, pulled her hair” and grabbed the steering wheel when she was driving. The inquest heard that Zeidan as Brayden also ended the relationship because Renae said she was finally ending her longtime friendship with Zeidan. Though Renae never met Brayden, she became besotted with him in a relationship which Brayden ended when Renae hoped he was getting out of jail and could meet and marry her. Zeidan made up the character of Ms Marsden’s boyfriend, a purported Goulburn correctional centre prisoner, and communicated as him via text and Facebook on a specially bought BlackBerry phone with Renae.īrayden was supposedly a graduate of the exclusive Kings School and set to take over his wealthy father’s multimillion-dollar construction business.

Ms Truscott said one of many lies Zeidan had told Renae’s family, was telling her mother Teresa Marsden that Renae killed herself “because she was unhappy at home”. Renae Marsden, who took her own life after being victim of a catfishing relationship in 2013. She said Renae had “a strong connection, deep love and was prepared to wait for (Brayden’s) release from prison” and truly believed Brayden was real and they would marry. “Camila knew that terminating the relationship would leave Renee devastated,” Ms Truscott said.

Ms Truscott said Zeidan “exacted her ultimate revenge by making Brayden break Renae’s heart” after Renae severed her longtime friendship with Zeidan.

When Zeidan, posing as jail inmate Brayden Spiteri, ended the relationship, Renae Marsden ended her life, the inquest heard. the pain” of Ms Mardsen’s family, and that her “lack of co-operation” had resulted in “further torment” of the family’s suffering. Zeidan had told numerous lies, had lied to police and lied the family of the dead woman, Renee Marsden, the inquest into Ms Marsden’s death heard. Ms Truscott found Zeidan, 27, deliberately catfished Renae Marsden, 20, by masquerading as an adoring prison lover so she could manipulate her for her own romantic desires. NSW Deputy State Coroner Elaine Truscott has found the actions of Camila Zeidan “caused the hurt and heartache which led (Ms Mardsen) to take her own life”. A coroner has slammed the “pack of lies” told by a woman who catfished her best friend, leading the 20-year-old to tragically suicide.
