STANDING at the very spot where her niece mysteriously vanished, Rebecca’s auntie cried as she scattered flowers and prayed for her safe return.

“I was sobbing so much that I could hardly speak,” said Trish Davies, as she relived the moment onboard the Disney Wonder Cruise Liner days after Rebecca’s disappearance.

“I just had this overwhelming feeling from the ship that this was the only chance we would get.

“So I thought if she has gone from here, we need to put flowers where they say she last was.”

It has been 58 days since Rebecca’s parents, Ann and Mike, of Guilden Sutton, received the phone call telling them their daughter had vanished.

Trish described the days following the news, as the family struggled to come to terms with Rebecca’s disappearance.

“It was just two days later that we flew over to America. I went with Ann and Mike for support.

“We wanted to actually board the ship while people and friends were still on but that didn’t happen in the end.”

For Trish, Ann and Mike the trip was a ‘traumatic and emotional experience’.

They set off from Manchester that Friday morning (March 25) praying for answers, news and a renewed sense of hope that they would find Rebecca alive.

But for Trish the trip brought nothing but grief and frustration, an emotional rollercoaster which saw them thrown into the world’s media spotlight.

Ann suffered blackouts, and they returned home with three holdalls containing memories of Rebecca.

For a day the family walked along the port in Los Angeles where the ship would dock, handing out photographs of the 24-year-old.

But before they boarded Ann collapsed in the first of a series of blackouts, caused by stress, exhaustion and diabetes.

Trish said: “When she came around Ann kept saying I need to go on that ship, but [emergency service] 911 needed to talk to her, she was trying to tell them that she was ok, but she didn’t sound it.

She added: “In the end I had to pretend I was Ann on the phone.

“I grabbed the phone and said ‘I’m Ann Coriam and I’m ok’, but they didn’t listen to me anyway so I put the phone down, then we were shoved in the car and went off to the port.”

Trish explained: “When we first put our feet on that ship we knew Becky was there, that was the last place she was seen.

“We were led to a small room, the table was full of sandwiches and cakes.

“I just remember when I walked in it scared me, because we were going on the ship for hope.

“And when we walked in the room it hit you in the face, the grief, not because people were crying, but because of the actions and the feelings. It was all very like you were at a wake, that’s how I felt, I felt they had put on a wake.

“The questions we had in our heads before and the stuff we wanted to say was blown away and we weren’t prepared.

“I just remember staring at all the food and tears were just streaming down my face.

“All the Disney people staring at me and not knowing what to do and nobody offered me a tissue.

“The family watched the ship’s CCTV, witnessing the last movements of Rebecca, watching as she made the phone call to her friend - the words of which they will probably never know.

The tears on the deck, as the family stood staring out to sea at the railings of 5Forward (the crew deck), standing in the very spot where searches found a pair of white flip-flops, which the family are still adam ant did not belong to Rebecca, will stay with Trish forever.

“They just left us all to stand there, we were looking and the feeling had been put in our heads has she jumped, so we were trying to figure out how someone could possibly jump off there, because it was impossible even if you were going to do it at the spur of the moment you couldn’t do it.”

After laying flowers on the deck, they returned to the hotel.

Trish remembers they watched the ship pulling out, something which they now believe was the wrong thing to do, because it was like saying goodbye.

But the Coriam family have united in hope and are determined not to settle until they ‘find the truth’.

Ann and Mike are hoping to go back on the ship along with Rebecca’s sister, Rachael.

“There are probably about half a dozen things that could have happened to Becky but it wasn’t discussed. We hope she hid somewhere and managed to get off, why we don’t know, all we can do is hope.”