A BRIT accused of murdering his wife by sinking her boat in Cuba has been filmed in an emotional bust-up with her family.
Harrowing police body-cam footage shows Lewis Bennett, 41, of Poole, Dorset, clashing with the sister-in-law and mum of tragic Isabella Hellmann.
It shows them angrily confronting him at their Florida home as he arrives to take away his young daughter Emelia.
Isabella’s mum screams “don’t take my baby!” in the clip, filmed just two weeks after her daughter went missing at sea.
The footage, acquired by My Palm Beach Post, shows Lewis, 41, also asking for an iPad, laptop and engagement ring from the house.
Bennett was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of second degree murder and is accused of deliberately damaging their honeymoon catamaran.
Lewis accuses them of stealing Isabella’s belongings, telling sister-in-law Dayana Rodriguez “Right. We’ve got a problem. I know you guys came into the house several times.”
Dayana can be heard denying it, saying “you can f****** kill me right now if I took something from your house.”
She screams at him “Give me my sister back!” and tells the cop “he’s being investigated”.
Another relative off camera yells “You killed my sister!”.
Lewis also asks for his wife’s engagement ring, which Dayana tells him is insured for “$26,000”.
It ends with Lewis refusing to let the family hold Emelia one last time, as the cop tells him: “It would be best to just take off.”
In a court document, FBI Special Agent James Kelley said the bureau believes Bennett “knowingly and unlawfully killed” Isabella, the mother of his child, as the newlyweds returned to Florida.
Bennett was rescued from a life raft off Cuba after radioing that his wife had disappeared and that their catamaran was sinking.
Her body has never been recovered.
The FBI’s suspicions were raised after Bennett requested a “letter of presumed death” within 24 hours of his wife’s disappearance.
His request was rejected despite his pleas that he needed his wife declared dead so he could settle her estate.
The distasteful haste of the request prompted a Florida judge to refuse until she was given more information about the case.
According to experts, the vessel they were travelling in had signs that two underwater escape hatches were opened.
Investigators also claim Bennett did not activate his satellite phone or register his personal locator beacon until he was in Cuba on the final leg of the voyage.
They said this is because he wanted to “ensure his own rescue and survival after murdering his wife and intentionally scuttling his catamaran.”
At the time of the boat sinking, Bennett had a heavy bag with him containing gold and silver coins, which were from a £75,000 hoard he had reported as stolen a year before.
Cops found 162 more coins at the Florida home of the businessman, from Poole in Dorset.
The Brit had earlier been remanded in custody in Miami and faced up to ten years’ jail after changing his plea to guilty for smuggling the loot.
Bennett and Isabella were on 37-foot catamaran sailing near the Bahamas to Florida in May when she went missing.
Bennett told investigators he was sleeping when the boat struck something in the Florida Straits and started taking on water.
Authorities say Bennett told them when he went above deck, he could not find his wife so he abandoned his sinking boat.
Rescue crews found him in a life raft about 30 miles from the Bahamas.
Authorities noticed he had loaded a suitcase and two backpacks on the raft but had taken only one backpack with him when he was pulled out of the water.
A Coast Guard rescuer said he “noticed that his backpack was unusually heavy”.
Among Bennett’s belongings in the raft were 225 coins with a value of about £3,240, the complaint said.
The Coast Guard searched the area for his wife for ten days but she was never found.
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Isabella’s family and friends have started a social media campaign to find her.
The couple, who have a daughter together, were on a belated honeymoon sailing through the Caribbean when the boat sank.
Mining engineer Bennett has denied any wrongdoing over his wife’s disappearance and investigators had never named him as a suspect.
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