Twist in catfish suicide case as ex-girlfriend who 'invented a fake boyfriend' for hairdresser, 20, who then took her own life explains WHY she deleted their final text
- Accused catfisher says suicide victim Renae Marsden said 'I'll always love you'
- But Camila Zeidan says she accidentally deleted the final text from Renae
- Inquest has previously heard Ms Zeidan had an 'obsessive' relationship with her
- Ms Zeidan allegedly controlled the online identity 'Brayden Spiteri'
- Detective branded statements from Ms Zeidan as 'incorrect ... making no sense'
- Renae got a tattoo of Brayden's name and believed he was in prison
Former best friends: Camilla Zeidan (right) is accused of inventing 'Brayden' Spiteri to catfish ex-girlfriend Renae (left)
The ex-lover accused of catfishing hairdresser Renae Marsden before she took her own life told police the final text she received from the suicide victim said: 'I'll always love you'.
But Camila Zeidan claimed to NSW Police that she 'accidentally' deleted the 20-year-old's last message when she tried to forward it to the victim's mother, Teresa Marsden.
In the same police interview, the school friend denied actually being Renae's fake boyfriend, Brayden Spiteri - who Renae had long believed she was in a loving relationship with, but had never met.
The coronial inquest into the bizarre circumstances leading up to Miss Marsden's suicide death on August 5, 2013, heard on Tuesday that Camila told a police officer she didn't believe the suicide victim's situation 'was serious' when she received the final text that evening.
But that afternoon, Camila had allegedly messaged the young woman's mother while under the guise of Renae's faked boyfriend Brayden, the inquest heard.
The text warned Renae's mother Teresa to 'sort your daughter out' as she was suicidal.
Camila Zeidan, in 'Soho' shirt, claims she deleted the final text message she received from Renae Marsden 'accidentally' - but NSW police today took aim at her statements in court
The inquest has heard that 'Brayden Spiteri' was a concocted to 'catfish' Renae Marsden. This photo above is one picture that Renae thought was Brayden (it is not)
The coroner is investigating whether Renae had learned that she had been 'catfished' by her former best friend before she died at The Gap, in Sydney's east.
During the second day of the inquest into the 'bubbly' receptionist's death saw Detective Senior Constable Brett Bell brand statements Camila had provided to police, 20 days after her friend's death, as 'incorrect' and as making 'no sense'.
A statement described Camila's interview with an officer at Paddington Police Station on August 25, 2013.
When police told Camila in that interview that call logs indicated she was, in fact, Brayden, the alleged catfisher denied it, the inquest heard.
'No. I know that a lot of people think I am (Brayden),' she said. 'Everyone is against me.
'I wish I was where Renae is now. Wherever she is, I just want to have the peace she is feeling now.
'We could be together. Do you think she is really gone?'
But she changed her tune during a search of her home in September 2013.
Camila admitted 'I was sending the text messages to Renae' prior to travelling to the United States in March.
'She wanted me to pretend to be Brayden,' Camila said.
The police officer said 'why, why did she want you to pretend to be Brayden?'
Camila replied: 'I don't know. I just did it because she wanted me to ... I didn't do anything else, what's going to happen to me?'
Detective Inspector Brett Bell told the inquest there was no record of the relationship being a 'pretend scenario'.
Camila's initial police interview: From Renae's final text message to claims of Camila 'seeing' Brayden
In her initial interview with police, the officer asked to see the final message Renae sent Camila on the afternoon of her death. She had deleted it.
Asked why, Camila said: 'I don't know, my phone does that sometimes, I was trying to send it to (the girl's mother) Teresa but it deleted it instead'.
She told the officer Renae had texted her 'something like, "you'll always be my best friend, I'll always love you, hope one day you'll forgive me."
'Camila said she did not think the message was serious' at the time.
But about 3pm that afternoon, 'Brayden' texted Renae's mother saying 'sort your daughter out, (she's) threatening to kill herself'.
Counsel assisting the inquest Sasha Harding asked Mr Bell if that was 'possibly incongruous?'
Mr Bell told the inquest: 'Yes, I wouldn't believe that to be correct because it was enough for Brayden's phone to message that there was a threat to kill herself, yes'.
In the police interview, Camila also described her relationship with Renae as also not being sexual in nature.
But an email from Renae to Camila which offered 'phone sex' during a holiday and sex 'in bed' later was different to what she had told police, Detective Bell said. 'I love you so much baby,' Renae said in the email.
Camila also claimed to police that she had once met Renae's boyfriend once at The Brewery, a pub in Windsor, in Sydney's north-west, and that he had long hair.
'It's my opinion that never occurred,' Mr Bell said, adding that Camila's description of Brayden was different to the pictures of him that Renae had in her possession.
Renae Marsden's parents Theresa and Mark, with their daughter Monique, speaking to media outside the inquest
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Camila's claims to police that Renae had got a SIM card for Brayden also came under scrutiny.
Camila claimed to officers that Renae had wanted to buy Brayden a SIM card, but couldn't buy one at the store because she had no identification.
Camila claimed that's why her contact details were associated with Brayden's SIM card.
But Officer Bell said that explanation 'doesn't make sense' as prepaid SIMs don't require identification to purchase from a store, only upon registration online.
Camila was in court on Tuesday with her father, as were Renae's mother, Teresa, father, Mark and extended family.
The magistrate presiding over the inquest, Elaine Truscott, apologised to Camila and her family for harrowing scenes that occurred outside court on Monday.
A friend of Camila's fell over in a media scrum and members of Renae's family screamed at Camila and her supporters as they ran to their car.
Camila's lawyer, Brett Longville, told the court it was 'quite unsavoury', leading Ms Truscott to 'extend my apologies' to the family.
'I did not subpoena her to be pilloried by any member of the community and to have to run a gauntlet of media,' the magistrate said.
The inquest continues.
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