Due to the interest in Graeme Crowley’s podcast series Bring Home SANDRINE, also featured on the Missing Sandrine Jourdan Facebook page, I’ve been reviewing messages between Brad Ainsworth and I, as well as other items of interest, and I have found some interesting points that I feel I should share.
I will make it plain what I have concrete evidence of, what I was told verbally, and what is my opinion.
To be clear, I considered Brad Ainsworth, the man that I suspect had something to do with Sandrine’s disappearance, a ‘friend’ up until the day, and a few days after, Sandrine disappeared. The reason for the breakdown in our relationship is due to my belief that Brad had something to do with her disappearance. Bradley’s behaviour before Sandrine’s disappearance was beginning to disgust me, but I am not sharing this information because we had a falling out, I want to share whatever I possibly can because I want to help find Sandrine. And truly, Sandrine deserved so much better than the filthy slander Brad Ainsworth has dished out at her expense.
Sandrine was a very special person; kind, loving, honest to her own detriment, funny, talented and brave, and she is irreplaceable.
If you have any information at all, if it be Facebook messages, emails, texts, anything at all that you have with regard to Sandrine OR any persons of interest around that time, the 13th July 2012, please contact Graeme Crowley, his contact details are available on his Bring Home Sandrine podcast. Please share what you know. If you are having trouble accessing old Facebook messages due to a breakdown in a friendship those messages can be retrieved by downloading all your Facebook data. This link will explain how to do it; https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644
This is the 6th blog in a series, view the previous installments here:
Established and verifiable factsregarding Sandrine’s disappearance
*Sandrine was last seen on Friday the 13th of July 2012
*Between 5 pm – 5:30 pm
*At Tomlinson Road Caboolture Queensland.
*Last reported sighting of Sandrine was by her friend John Boegheim at Tomlinson Road address.
*Sandrine told family she was headed to a Buddhist Retreat (Brad claimed he was going with Sandrine to a drum retreat on the ACA program ‘Missing Mum’, Sandrine told her family she was going to a Buddhist retreat that day, this discrepancy is important)
*The day that Sandrine disappeared was Brad Ainsworth’s birthday
*Brad was furious with Sandrine the day she disappeared
*Brad has changed his alibi for the 13th of July 2012, the day that Sandrine disappeared, several times
How is Brad changing his alibi several times a fact? Let me show you.
Evidence
When the police called me on the 17th of July 2012 asking if I had seen or heard from Sandrine, my first instinct was to call her phone, there was no answer. I left a message for Sandrine but she didn’t call me back.
The second person I contacted was Brad Ainsworth. Why? Because Sandrine spoke to me about Brad being angry with her while she was staying at my house, and on the day she went missing Bradley Ainsworth was absolutely furious with Sandrine. Brad did not mention that he was taking Sandrine to any retreat at all, but he told me, in our Facebook messages, that he was going to talk to her that day, and he said he was going to sort things out with Sandrine ‘once and for all’.
This evidence can be verified. (Please note the time on these messages)
Majic MirraFriday, July 13, 2012 at 8:37am UTC+10 I am gonna talk to Sandrine now and find out the WHOLE story once and for all.
Majic Mirra Friday, July 13, 2012 at 8:41am UTC+10 …This might be JUST the time to ask her a few things. She s probably told you more than me.
If you’ve been following my ‘Missing Sandrine Jourdan’ blogs the Facebook message exchange between Brad Ainsworth (AKA Majic Mirra) and I is not news to you, but the messages after the 13th of July are of interest.
Pieta MorganTuesday, July 17, 2012 at 11:17am UTC+10 Hey BRad, how are you? I’ve had the police calling about Sandrine.. her brother’s reported her missing.. have you heard from her at all?
Majic Mirra Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 12:33pm UTC+10 No I havent…been on camp all weekend. Will try and contact her now.
Majic Mirra Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 8:23pm UTC+10 Have you heard anything about Sandrine? I have tried everything I think of.
Pieta Morgan Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 8:26pm UTC+10 No I haven’t heard, I felt obligated, because her brother reported her as missing, to give the officer her number… but he asked about chenrezig, apparently at one time she was talking to her brother about staying there. The officer said he was looking into it and asked me if I knew anything.. She hasn’t returned my call either. Hope she’s ok, poor honey.
Majic Mirra Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 12:51pm UTC+10 Any Sandrine yet?
When I wrote to Brad of news that Sandrine had told her brother that she was going to stay at Chenrezig Brad did not reply. Is that a big deal? Yes, yes it is; because Brad was living at Chenrezig. Chenrezig is a Buddhist retreat. https://www.chenrezig.com.au/
At the time Sandrine disappeared the only person I knew that had anything at all to do with a Buddhist retreat was Bradley Ainsworth, because he’d been living at Chenrezig Buddhist Retreat at Eudlo on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland for approximately 6 months. Brad Ainsworth had mentioned the Chenrezig Buddhist retreat to me many times. This fact is verifiable. Please see direct messages from Brad Ainsworth below.
It was widely reported in the media at the time that Sandrine had plans to go to a Buddhist retreat, (please see screenshots below). But Brad Ainsworth never did tell me about their plans that day, he never did express that he wondered why Sandrine would go to the place where he was living, the Buddhist retreat, he simply did not comment on this part of the inquiry at all.
Brad’s Alibis
1. Brad made this statement “And I was at Mums all morning the day she went missing, At Dazs place all arvo and at Kilcoy all weekend after.” – the fact that this statement was made is verifiable.
2. When I asked Brad Ainsworth where he was the day Sandrine disappeared he told me that he was at his “mum and dad’s all day” and “Yeah I went to Kilcoy on my birthday, it was midnight. I got there about midnight.”– the fact that this statement was made is verifiable.
3. What does Daz have to say about Brad’s alibi? “i do know this… on the 13th of july 2012, the accused [Bradley Ainsworth] was at my house from between about midday until about 4:30-5pm…” -the fact that Daz made this statement is verifiable (To be very clear, I know Daz and his words are not in question).
4. What did Brad tell Sandrine’s family about his timeline that day? I have a screenshot of Sandrine’s sister, Christine, who wrote;
BRAD AINSWORTH expects you to believe his story, but he tells so many lies, how can we possibly believe him?
5. More news from Daz after his partner at the time, Lish, spoke to the police. Daz made this statement on the 11th of December 2013, nearly 18 months after Sandrine disappeared. The police did not seek Daz and Lish’s statements, it was Lish who took the time to speak to police. Daz’s comments also speak to what the police believe:
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It’s a lot to process but Daz and Lish’s story is consistent and Daz has given this timeline previously as above. And yes, I probably did ‘unfriend’ Daz and Lish from Facebook, SORRY DAZ and LISH! And many thanks for the permission to share this post!
The important thing to glean from Daz’s statement to the drumming camp is that Daz and Lish were allegedly not contacted by police to confirm or deny Brad’s alibi, Lish had to contact the police herself. It’s strange, don’t you think? If Lish had to contact the police herself, nearly 18 months later, that indicates to me that either, 1. Brad didn’t tell the police that he was visiting Daz and Lish from around midday to dusk in Kallangur on the 13th of July 2012, the day Sandrine disappeared, OR, 2. the police neglected to substantiate that part of Brad’s timeline. Either way, the time frame of Sandrine’s disappearance that the police gave Lish conflicts with the verifiable, established facts! Sandrine was last seen at between 5 pm and 5:30 pm, not 3pm-ish.
In Australia a July dusk is early, and I would like you to see a screen shot of of exactly what time dusk, or sundown was at Murrumba Downs, (this is the closest town to Kallangur that I could find historical weather data for), which is 1.7 kilometres or 1 mile from Daz’s house, on the 13th of July 2012:
Sundown, as you can see, was at 5:13 pm that day, and it was around sundown as Lish reported to the police, that Brad Ainsworth left their house. And how far away was Sandrine at Tomlinson Rd Caboolture from where Brad was that afternoon? Only 26 minutes!
If Bradley Ainsworth has given you a version of his timeline for the 13th of July 2012 that differs from his other timelines as above, (verifiable emails or messages are particularly helpful) please forward that evidence to Graeme Crowley, his contact details are available on his podcast, here; https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/638bf17cfcf6a500114ad805
If Brad Ainsworth was at Daz and Lish’s house from around midday until dusk on the day that Sandrine disappeared, as Daz said, how did the police have a photo of Brad that was taken in the late afternoon hours at his parent’s house, quote “based on the daylight in the shots”? Especially if it there was ‘moderate rain’ that day as cloudiness affects the natural sunlight making it impossible to tell from a photo what time it is!
And if Brad left Kallangur at dusk, how could he have made it to his parents house in Warner, 24 minutes away, in time to have a photo taken with any natural light at all?
How on earth could Steve Watts, the officer in charge of Sandrine’s case, have made that determination? And the biggest question; if Brad has a photo that gives him a rock-solid alibi why won’t he share it? We really need to see that photo Brad!
Tomlinson Road is directly parallel and accessible from the D’Aguilar highway, and according to Whereis.com it would have been the fastest route one would take if they were already 30 hours late for their own birthday party!
Brad would have had to go way out of his way to have traveled to Kilcoy any other way than directly past Tomlinson Road, directly past where Sandrine was staying on the day she disappeared.
I’d like to thank Graeme Crowley for his efforts to bring attention to Sandrine’s disappearance. It’s shocking to me to find out that so many people hadn’t heard about her case. Graeme has brought attention to Sandrine’s Case in a huge way and opened the door to many points that I was hesitant to speak about previously.
If you have any information at all, if it be Facebook messages, emails, texts, anything at all that you have with regard to Sandrine OR any persons of interest around that time, the 13th July 2012, please contact Graeme Crowley, his contact details are available on his Bring Home Sandrine podcast. Please share what you know. Let’s work together to find Sandrine!
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We had a great night just camping out; painting rocks as the sun went down. I miss her.
Please note, since writing these blogs Bradley Ainsworth is now known as ‘Majic Mirror’ on Facebook, having changed the spelling from his previous account name, ‘Majic Mirra’, and I have been told by several sources he now insists on being referred to as ‘Majic’.
Square brackets ‘[ ]’ I have inserted for clarification.
The drumming camp
As you may have read in my previous blogs, in the November of 2013, nearly 18 months after Sandrine’s disappearance, it was decided that Bradley Ainsworth was to be expelled from the drumming camp due to many allegations against him.
In the course of his expulsion dialogue within the drumming camp circle abounded, and Sandrine’s name came up. Whispers of what Bradley had told people about Sandrine and various accounts of his whereabouts were relayed.
Bradley, as usual, blamed everyone else for his expulsion and slandered anyone who reported his behaviour, creating a frenzy among his supporters.
When Bradley was expelled from the drumming camp he made this statement: “I have a feeling it has a lot to do with Sandrine believe it or not”
This blog covers snippets of a long thread involving more than 14 people. The thread began for the purpose of addressing an accusation of rape against Bradley Ainsworth, but that one accusation grew to be many accusations of various forms of disgusting and some criminal behaviour.
One of the women, referred to in this blog as ‘J’, was invited to the closed chat of women, including Sandrine’s sister, Christine and retreat ‘elders’, for her input. Regrettably ‘J’ forwarded the entire dialogue to Bradley.
‘J’ believed Bradley to be innocent, and may still. I haven’t spoken to her in years because I’m having trouble forgiving her for betraying the women in our group for Bradley.
Bradley may not know to this day how we (and later the police) managed to get hold of this dialogue, but it was given to us, because Bradley told ‘J’ that she could share it, and share she did.
Bradley: “Feel free to share anything I just shared with anyone too…I don’t care anymore. I dont protect the secrets of people like them any more.”
Bradley: “Seriously ‘J’, share anything I have said and tell them that I demand answers to all of my questions too. I dont want to hurt anyone.”
In this dialogue you will see why these conversations were important and why they were passed on to the police.
A bombshell statement by Bradley’s drumming camp friend, ‘J’
‘J’ to Bradley: “I told Xxx [drumming camp elder] to contact Steve (glasshouse mtn) because he had seen something on TV about Sandrine being alive and happily heading around down south aust. Tas. (I think he said, but forget a lot of what he told me)”
Bradley’s reply to ‘J’: “I don’t know any more than anyone else. I have talked to the police and family thoroughly…. anyone who asks…I will tell the same thing to.”
Bradley’s reply to ‘J’ is stunning! ‘J’ had just told him that Sandrine was alive and well, on TV, happily heading down south Australia. Bradley’s reply? “I don’t know anymore than anyone else. I have talked to the police and family thoroughly…. anyone who asks…I will tell the same thing to”
What? Bradley should have been jumping for joy! If he was innocent surely he would be relieved by the news from ‘J’; she had just told him that there was proof that Sandrine was alive.
How would you, as an innocent person, reply to ‘J’ after she announced this fantastic news?
‘That’s amazing’, ‘How is she?, ‘That’s wonderful news, now I can clear my name’, ‘Holy shit!’, ‘You need to tell Sandrine’s family this news!’, ‘Do the police know? We have to tell them!’, ‘Thank goodness!’ ???
It has to be said however, that if Bradley was guilty of a heinous crime against Sandrine it would make sense that he would not react with surprise or relief or happiness, because he would know what had happened to Sandrine and on that basis he would know that ‘J’s statement wasn’t true.
As you can see in the dialogue above, Bradley had decided what his answer will be if anyone asks about Sandrine, as he said to ‘J’; if anyone asks he’ll tell them that he doesn’t know any more than anyone else.
Do you see what I see?
‘J’ repeats the same claim to another person in the thread, I will refer to this person as ‘F’: “Steve announced it to everyone and anyone who would listen at the last Kilcoy camp (so he told us at the Gorge) he didn’t mention Brad but did say it was on TV (I think he said Today Tonight)”
Again ‘J’ states: “Steve from glasshouse mountains saw photos from all over South Australia /Tasmania with her [Sandrine] in groups of tourist /friends who must have unwittingly uploaded them to Facebook … it was on TV”
‘F’: “Steve who?”
‘F’ : recently?
‘J’: “very recently … don’t know his last name”
‘F’: “the Steve who camps down river with Brad? Maybe Brad told him that BS??? To get HIM on side too”
‘J’: “nope he saw it on TV himself and yes that Steve”
‘J’: “Steve didn’t say he saw anything on FB he saw it on TV”
Was there ever a show featuring Sandrine being alive and well, travelling around Australia? No, never. Sandrine is a missing person because there’s been no positive sightings of her anywhere since Bradley’s birthday, the 13th of July 2012.
And yes, you may have picked up that ‘F’ asked ‘J’ which ‘Steve’ she was referring to, was it “the Steve who camps down river with Brad?”
‘J’ confirms, that it was that Steve, a friend of Bradley Ainsworth.
Was the officer in charge of Sandrine’s case informed that Steve from the Glasshouse Mountains had been spreading this lie? Yes. Not only was this 33 page document given to Officer Steve Watts, but he was emailed with specifics. What was Officer Steve Watts’ reply?
How is it possible that Officer Steve Watts didn’t find the dialogue that I have just shared with you of interest in Sandrine’s case? How could he have come to the conclusion that such an alarming claim that was WITNESSED by fellow camper/s was “Chinese whispers”?
I’m no expert, but what I do understand about court is that WITNESSES are called to give testimony, witnesses are people who see and hear things. Do all witnesses need recordings and video? No.
If Officer Steve Watts had questioned ‘J’ about what she had heard, not Bradley or Steve, ‘J’ would have been a WITNESS to what Steve from the Glasshouse Mountains had said, requiring Officer Steve Watts to pursue that line of inquiry and not dismiss it as “hearsay” or “Chinese Whispers”, and I apologise for the racist terminology, I am merely quoting QPS Officer Steve Watts.
‘J’ continues her dialogue with ‘F’: “I would look into the fact that Sandrine’s photo’s are showing up all over Facebook & Steve mentioned that she was contacted (by who I haven’t a clue) and said she had no intention of coming back or contacting anyone due to family reasons”
So, according to ‘J’, Steve from the Glasshouse Mountains who was Bradley Ainsworth’s camping buddy, told her that Sandrine had contacted someone and told them that she had no intention of coming back or contacting anyone due to family reasons?!
It must be said, Sandrine had contact with her family members and her children every day up until her disappearance and since the day she disappeared Sandrine’s family have done all they could to find out what happened to her.
What did Officer Steve Watts, the man in charge of Sandrine’s case do with this information? Ab-sol-ute-ly nothing!
When Sandrine’s sister, Christine, became aware of ‘J’s claims; that there was a show about Sandrine being alive, she immediately set the drumming campers straight.
Officer Steve Watts was given this information on the 3rd of December 2013.
Who is Steve from the Glasshouse mountains?
Steve and Bradley were drumming camp friends.
Is it possible that Bradley fed the story regarding the fictitious program about Sandrine being alive and well, to Steve? ’F’ suspected that he had, and I suspect he did also. I think that Bradley started the rumour that Sandrine was alive and well so it would look like he was a victim that was being falsely accused of a crime that was never committed.
Obviously, no such program existed. But convincing people that the program did exist would have served Bradley Ainsworth, who had already been questioned in relation to Sandrine’s disappearance and quite a few drumming camp members were suspicious of him too.
I am not suggesting that Steve from the Glasshouse Mountains was involved in Sandrine’s disappearance, I am suggesting that ‘J’, and Steve from the Glasshouse Mountains come forward to clarify these statements.
Duplicity
In the days after Sandrine disappeared Bradley alluded to Sandrine’s family that Sandrine may have suicided.
Bradley to Christine: “Talked to Ian [Ian was Sandrine’s partner up until the 27th of June 2012] last night…he is concerned….told me a lot of worrying stuff about her mental state.”
“We were both [Sandrine and Bradley] as depressed as each other. …”
“Why couldn’t I just suck up all my problems for one more phone call?”
“If she’s done anything to herself, I don’t think I can live with myself “
What did Sandrine’s sister, Christine say in the thread about Bradley’s claim that Sandrine was suicidal?
Christine: “Sandrine wrote about some serious stuff which Brad was involved in. Brad now trying to turn things around and say [that it] was her that was suicidal, she was not at all. Sandrine was scared of Brad (didn’t want to meet him alone).”
Christine: “My mum sat up with Sandrine [the] night before she went missing till 4 am, (mum has heart problems [and her] health [is] not the best), all Sandrine spoke to my mum about was Brad.”
Approximately a year after Bradley’s messages to Christine about his theory that Sandrine may have suicided, he wrote to ‘J’ that he knew Sandrine was going to show up again.
Bradley to ‘J’: “the Sandrine thing is the one thing I feel will change everything…. when she shows up again… which I know she will”
Had anything positive happened in terms of sightings of Sandrine in that year? No. But Bradley’s pretty convincing. He’s clever. He’s manipulative. He seems to know just what to say to people to bolster his stories and confuse people with contradictory accounts of his whereabouts that day.
Bradley suggested to the drumming campers that Sandrine could be watching all the goings on in the drumming camp from a fake Facebook profile. It was such a ridiculous thing to say, and most intelligent people didn’t fall for it, but maybe some did.
There was no basis for Bradley’s claims that there was a possibility that Sandrine was watching from a “fake FB account”, except ‘J’s claims that Steve had seen her on television.
Bradley wrote in a Facebook message to one of the ‘elders’ of the drumming camp after he was expelled: “If Sandrine IS out there keeping track of events by a false FB account there is no way she is coming back now. All of this activity has stirred up her family again and I personally think they have been through enough.”
I hope the readers see what I’m pointing out; Bradley attempted to shut down all conversation about Sandrine. He attempted to make it sound as though Sandrine wouldn’t come back because of what was being said about him.
Bradley tried to manipulate the drumming campers into not reporting to the police with information about him and Sandrine
Bradley wrote to a drumming camper who was suspicious of his behaviour:
“All Pieta’s shit did was took valuable man hours away from the police that could have been better used in the investigation. That’s all i have to say on Pieta as she is no friend”
Bradley wrote to one of the ‘elders’ of the camp;
Bradley wrote in a Facebook message to his loyal fans:
“My other intention is to put the police investigation regarding Sandrine Jourdan’s disappearance and the legal issues between certain campers and myself back on track.
Bradley: “The police told me last year that stuff like all of this camper crap throws valuable man power off track because they have to investigate EVERYTHING. If Sandrine is also tracking what is going on with a fake FB account she is going to be less likely to show up again seeing all the trouble that has been brewing. This is all counterproductive to finding out the truth.”
The destruction of the drumming camp
After Bradley was expelled from the drumming camp it was never the same, not because he wasn’t there anymore, but because some of the drummers believed his lies.
Some of Bradley’s supporters, when they found out who Bradley’s ‘victims’ were, rang them and abused them. Some wrote the most terrible, disgusting things, not only to the ‘victims’ but the ‘elders’ that had ousted Bradley on the drumming camp Facebook page. And some drummers may even have lied for Bradley.
On the outside, if you’re not involved in the drumming camp, it may seem unnecessary to bring up the destruction of the drumming camp. Who cares, right? My point here is that Bradley’s behaviour was so divisive, his slander so convincing, his hatred so palpable, that good people behaved like monsters in their defense of him.
In December of 2012, five months after Sandrine had disappeared, a mutual friend of Bradley’s and mine came to visit me. I’ll refer to this person as ‘R’.
‘R’ asked me why I thought Bradley was responsible for Sandrine’s disappearance. I attempted to show ‘R’ the messages between us on Facebook proving how angry Bradley was with Sandrine on the day of her disappearance, and that he wrote he was going to confront Sandrine that day. But ‘R’ stubbornly refused to look at the messages.
I was angry with ‘R’ for refusing to see these important messages, because she was a friend of Sandrine’s too. I asked ‘R’, “Why won’t you even look at the messages?” ‘R’ replied; “Because then I would have to admit that I’ve been enabling him.”
What ‘R’ meant is anyone’s guess, but it sure doesn’t sound good. And may even put ‘R’ in deep trouble, in a legal sense.
Bradley’s various alibis are very important
On the evening of the 30th of July 2012 I received a phone call from Sandrine’s sister, Christine. I didn’t record the call but I have a good memory, and Christine’s account has been burned into my brain. I also have messages mentioning my conversation with Christine, not long after the call. From memory it went like this;
Christine: So I asked Brad, ‘where were you on the 13th Brad’? And Brad tells me, ‘I don’t know, what day was that?’ And I [Christine] say; ‘I’ll make it easy for you Brad, it was your birthday.’ And he says; ‘I was at Kilcoy all day and all night’.
After Christine recounted her conversation with Bradley I immediately knew he’d lied about his whereabouts that day, because I had already asked the drumming camp members what time he’d arrived for his birthday party in Kilcoy that day, and they all said he arrived at 5 minutes to midnight. If Bradley had arrived just 5 minutes later that night he would have arrived at Kilcoy camp ground on the 14th of July, and that would have made him a day late for his own birthday.
Officer Steve Watts told me personally that Bradley claims that he was at his parents house all day where he celebrated his birthday and that there was a photo of him at the party. I have only seen one photo of Bradley at his birthday party, and that is the image shown above. That photo was taken at the Kilcoy campground.
My questions are, if Bradley had actually attended a birthday party at his parents house on the day that Sandrine disappeared why did he not tell me that, ever?
Why would he have organised a party at his parent’s house at the same time the ‘Friends of the Forest’ group were waiting for him to arrive at Kilcoy?
Where is the mysterious picture that Officer Steve Watts mentioned to me?
More information on the birthday cake is mentioned in some other blogs I’ve written.
Here are two other versions of Bradley’s alibi that day, to two different drumming campers.
Bradley: “And I was at Mums all morning the day she went missing, At Dazs place all arvo and at Kilcoy all weekend after.”
Bradley: “I never said I was up at Kilcoy all day…I said I went up Friday night. I was over at Daz’s place all afternoon and at Mums online in the morning….”
Please note, in these accounts Bradley made no mention whatsoever of a birthday party on the evening of the 13th of July 2012 at his parents house.
Below is a portion of a transcript of a recorded conversation that I had with Bradley on the 1st of August 2012.
Bradley: “Kilcoy, I was at my mum and dad’s all day”
Pieta: “You said you were at Kilcoy”
Bradley: “Yeah I went to Kilcoy on my birthday, it was midnight. I got there about midnight.”
Pieta: “Yeah five to midnight, yeah I know.”
Bradley: “Yeah, eh”
Pieta: “So you had 12 hours. When I told you, you told me that you’re going to sort it out once and for all.”
Bradley: “What?”
Pieta: “This… Sandrine, your issues with Sandrine. Whatever she told me you were so paranoid about, ‘What else have they been talking about? Her and Justine have been getting together… What else have they…..’”
Bradley: “I am paranoid about what they were talking about.”
Pieta: “Why? What are you worried about?”
Bradley: “Nothing, I was just wanted to know whether that had something to do with my relationship breakdown or not.”
He continued;
Bradley: “Well if I’ve done something to Sandrine it will come out wont it.”
Pieta: “It will. Most definitely. It will definitely.”
Bradley: “Yeah. But I haven’t, I haven’t seen Sandrine.”
Pieta: “You say that but I know you’re a liar. So that’s why I am completely maintaining my right to withhold an opinion to anyone else and I’ve got nothing to report to the police. But, personally, I don’t trust you anymore.”
Bradley: “Fine”
Pieta: “In fact I don’t even like you on my lawn.”
Bradley: “Fine. See ya”.
Pieta: “See ya.”
A conversation I had with Bradley on the 1st of August 2012 that was recorded.
Bradley’s statement; “Well if I’ve done something to Sandrine it will come out wont it”, disturbs me greatly.
Imagine, if you will, one of your friends accusing you of a crime, something terrible, and you are innocent of that crime. What would you say in answer to that accusation? Would your only answer to that friend be, ‘well if I’ve done something terrible it will come out won’t it’?
I don’t believe for a moment that any innocent person would react that way.
In 2016 ‘A Current Affair’ featured a segment called ‘Missing Mum’. Below are Bradley’s answers to the reporter’s questions.
47 seconds
Reporter: “Can you tell us what happened to Sandrine?”
Bradley Ainsworth: “Nah, I talked to her on the last day but that’s it.”
5 minutes 43 seconds
Reporter: “The day she vanished her family say Sandrine was suppose to be meeting up with another friend, Brad Ainsworth, and going to a retreat.”
Reporter: “Going to meet with her and going to a retreat, weren’t you?”
Bradley Ainsworth: “Yep, drum retreat.”
Reporter: “Didn’t see her that day?”
Bradley Ainsworth: “Nope.”
5 minutes 57 seconds
Reporter: “Brad Ainsworth says he was angry with Sandrine on the day she disappeared, and that’s why they didn’t meet.”
Bradley Ainsworth: “Yeah I was actually really upset, I’m sorry but I was. You know, that doesn’t mean I did anything to her.”
Reporter:“The family seem to think that you and maybe others have information that you’re not telling them.”
Bradley Ainsworth: “I don’t have any information. I think under the circumstances, you know, if the police are talking to you you take it pretty seriously.”
Bradley was questioned on the television show ‘A Current Affair’.
Why does Bradley refer to the day of Sandrine’s disappearance as “the last day” to the reporter?
Why does Bradley view the police contacting him about Sandrine’s disappearance as the thing that made Sandrine’s case serious?
“if the police are talking to you you take it pretty seriously”
What happened? Why didn’t Sandrine get to the drum retreat?
When was the last time Bradley spoke to Sandrine?
Below are messages that Bradley wrote to me 6 days after Sandrine’s disappearance;
Pieta Morgan 19/07/2012 2:59pm
When did you last speak to her?
19/07/2012 3:22pm
Majic Mirra Would have been last tue or wed..
The “last tue or wed” that Bradley referred to would have been Tuesday the 10th and Wednesday the 11th of July 2012, contradicting what he told the A Current Affair reporter.
I would like to quote the ever vocal Bradley Ainsworth: “If I did any of this shit, why am I not in JAIL?”
Good question.
Please help us find Sandrine. If you have any information regarding Sandrine’s disappearance please, contact Graeme Crowley. Graeme airs regular podcasts about Sandrine’s case and other cases too.
This blog was written without anyone’s approval, endorsement or prior knowledge. Initially my only goal in releasing these blogs was to find out what happened to Sandrine, but I have realized that there was another reason to release them; to warn others.
Sandrine Jourdan has been missing since Friday the 13th of July 2012.
She was declared ‘deceased’ by a coroner in 2016 by either “suicide” or “foul play”, but, disappointingly, the coroner stated that “there was a greater likelihood that she had suicided” based on the information that the officer/s working on Sandrine’s case had supplied.
The officer in charge of Sandrine’s case, Steve Watts, has stated there were ‘no new leads’, no matter how many people came forward regarding a person of interest, Bradley Ainsworth, who was Sandrine’s ‘friend’ for approximately a decade.
The coroner’s report included the fact that Bradley Ainsworth attempted to coerce Sandrine into a double suicide two days before she disappeared.
There was no mention in the coroner’s report regarding the fact that Bradley was also furious with Sandrine at the time of her disappearance or that he had made it clear, in writing, that he was going to sort out his issues with Sandrine “once and for all” that day.
The police were given evidence to prove how angry Bradley was with Sandrine at the time.
There was no mention in the report of Sandrine’s distress due to Bradley’s behaviour toward her in the days before her disappearance.
Sandrine did not express any thoughts of suicide to her friends or loved ones at the time of her disappearance when she contacted them.
The only person who seems to maintain that Sandrine was suicidal is Bradley Ainsworth, although Ian Cannard, Sandrine’s former partner and a friend of Bradley Ainsworth alluded to her “troubled mind” being a factor in her disappearance.
Sandrine spoke of fearing for her life at the time of her disappearance to family and friends, including myself.
There was no mention in the coroner’s report that Sandrine’s diaries were full of upcoming events, some of which she had paid for in advance.
Sandrine had a home until she she left Ian Cannard three weeks before she vanished. She had applied for housing due to her recent breakup with Ian Cannard, and the application was successful, being officially approved in the days after her disappearance. However, police had described her as “transient”.
Sandrine’s message to me on the very early hours of the 28th of June 2012. Read from bottom to top.
Sandrine left Ian Cannard on the 27th of June 2012.
There was no mention in the coroner’s report about the fact that Bradley had planned to pick Sandrine up to take her to a “drum retreat”, as Bradley admitted on the A Current Affair program “Missing Mum”.
There was no mention in the coroner’s report that Bradley had been living at the Chenrezig Buddhist retreat where Sandrine had planned to go that weekend, to celebrate Bradley’s birthday. The fact that Sandrine did not have her car with her on the day she disappeared is relevant.
There was no mention in the coroner’s report that Sandrine had written in her notes two weeks before she vanished that she had been raped by Bradley, Ian and a police officer friend of Ian’s by the name of “Paul”, although all of Sandrine’s notes were given to the police.
Police corruption or plain incompetence?
If you’re thinking that I’m implying there was a monumental police cover-up in Sandrine’s case, you are correct. It is obvious to me that when one of their own was implicated in Sandrine’s disappearance they literally shut down all genuine inquiries and sought to implicate the victim as the perpetrator of her own death.
Through my cannabis activism I have seen Queensland police, first hand, perjure themselves in court by presenting ‘evidence’ that was not mine. I was arrested without a warrant and I was even jailed for a day by ‘Magistrate’ Bernadette Callaghan based on paperwork that she didn’t have. Yes, she had to release me when she realized she had committed a crime against me, and it was made public. My point is, corruption is real. When I became aware of what (some) police were willing to do to secure a conviction or save face I made sure I recorded all my interactions with them.
The rape
When Sandrine disappeared on the 13th of July of 2012 her family were able to access her social media accounts, her devices and her diaries. Among the many pages of diary entries and random sheets of paper was a note.
In 2015 myself and two other people were informed by a witness that Sandrine had written about being raped approximately two weeks before her disappearance. According to the witness the note stated that Sandrine was raped by Bradley Ainsworth, Ian Cannard and a police officer called PAUL. Sandrine had mentioned that she had been raped to other people and it is noted in the coroner’s report.
Personally I have not seen the note but the witness is willing to testify to it’s existence.
Apparently Sandrine attended a police station to report the rape and made a statement, although that statement was never found. I wonder why! According to her notes she had also attended a rape clinic.
Who is Officer PAUL F?
Before I made any statements to police about my suspicions regarding Bradley Ainsworth a police officer contacted me. He told me that his name was PAUL F. PAUL F told me that he was, quote “hacking Bradley’s Facebook”, and he asked me to send him all of the Facebook messages between Bradley Ainsworth and myself.
On it’s face it doesn’t make sense that he would be “hacking” into Bradley’s Facebook account and yet still require our Facebook messages. Police are not allowed to “hack” anyone’s account without a warrant. It’s clear that this man didn’t have permission to hack Bradley’s account but he had used his position as a QPS officer to coerce me into sharing what he otherwise would not have had permission to access. PAUL F gave me his Queensland police ‘service’ email address and I sent all the messages between Bradley and I to that address.
Upon inquiring with the officer in charge of Sandrine’s case I was told that he did not receive said messages. Immediately alarm bells rang for me, not only because the conversation with PAUL F was so bizarre, but the nature of the emails, for Bradley, was so damning.
Because I didn’t, and I still don’t trust police in general, I felt my only option was to send a copy of my emails to the one QPS officer I thought was a good man. That officer assured me that the messages had been sent to the relevant officer in charge of Sandrine’s case.
Fortunately I had documented, in a Facebook message to a friend, the discussion with PAUL F. If I had not told a friend about the strange phone call from ‘officer’ PAUL F I would have forgotten his name because not long after the time of Sandrine’s disappearance I had to forgo my email account with ‘Bigpond’ and began using a free email service.
Keep in mind; PAUL F contacted me before I spoke to the police about Bradley. It is also notable that PAUL F was not found to be attached to Sandrine’s case.
My questions are;
Why would ‘officer’ PAUL F contact me regarding Bradley Ainsworth before I had expressed my concerns about him to the police? If PAUL F was sincerely investigating Bradley Ainsworth why didn’t he give the Facebook messages to the officer in charge of Sandrine’s case? Is PAUL F the same man that Sandrine wrote about in her account of the rape? If PAUL F was the same “Paul” that raped Sandrine was he fishing for information because he was afraid that Bradley had told me something that may have linked him to the crime? Why did the officer in charge of Sandrine’s case not investigate who had requested the messages when I told him that I had sent the messages to one of their own people?
When Sandrine stayed with me at the beginning of July 2012 she told me that she was afraid for her life, that she was running from people who would hack her computer and track her phone, and she told me that the police were involved. Sandrine was a truthful person who valued her relationships, and she valued honesty.
Bradley’s answer to the rape accusation
When Bradley was informed that Sandrine’s family were aware of the rape accusations his reply was, “If Sandrine said I raped her 3 weeks before she went missing, why has no one come forward to charge me?” It doesn’t take a genius to break down what Bradley said. There was no denial, no outrage, just a question; “why has no one come forward to charge me?”.
Rape accusations can take a long time to go through court, but Sandrine disappeared not long after she had apparently reported it to the police. Is that why, in Ian Cannard’s words on the ACA “Missing Mum” program he spoke of Sandrine having “been disappeared” referring to her in the past tense?
A logical breakdown of the concept of ‘double suicide’
Double suicides, or suicide pacts, are relatively rare and usually involve older married couples.
I think most of us are familiar with reports of two people, generally older couples, who for some reason, be it poor health or financial issues or issues that effected them both, decided together that their lives were unlivable.
From what I understand about the concept of a ‘double suicide’ is that it normally involves two people that agree that they want to go together, not one person who is furious with another and attempting to coerce the other person into killing themselves!
What kind of ‘friend’ attempts to coax someone into committing suicide? Some friend! It has to be noted that Bradley Ainsworth is still alive, 11 years after Sandrine’s disappearance, so perhaps he wasn’t as suicidal as he wanted Sandrine to believe he was.
Bradley Ainsworth, still alive 11 years after attempting to coerce Sandrine into suicide.
In the beginning of the ‘investigation’ into Sandrine’s disappearance there was a news article that stated that Bradley Ainsworth and Ian Cannard didn’t know each other.
“News.com.au would like to make clear that while each of the three men, who were not previously known to each other, were interviewed by detectives in the course of their initial investigation, none of them has been declared a person of interest. All three men vigorously deny having anything to do with Sandrine’s disappearance.”
I’ve stated previously that I can confirm and have proof of the fact that Bradley and Ian did know each other, in fact, Bradley introduced Sandrine to Ian. The question must be asked; why did they deny knowing each other?
Bradley Ainsworth and Ian Cannard, Sandrine’s ex-partner, at my birthday party in 2011
Sandrine has been declared deceased and her murderer still walks among us.
Messages between Bradley Ainsworth and Sandrine’s sister, Christine
Bradley and Sandrine had been friends for approximately a decade, but Bradley didn’t really care about Sandrine. He has, from the start done nothing to help us find her, he does not answer questions and will not share her story.
In the early days of Sandrine’s disappearance, Christine, Sandrine’s sister, was extremely patient with Bradley, but her patience ran thin when Bradley refused to help.
Christine tends to use ‘text speak’ in her messages so I have made adjustments in the messages in this blog, with her permission, to make it a little easier to read.
Christine’s first contact with Bradley Ainsworth on the 25th of July 2012, twelve days after Sandrine’s disappearance.
Bradley: “She did tell me that she was concerned that Ian would post their sex videos on the net. She said a lot of bad things about him like that and then said two weeks later that she imagined it. She has really confused and burned out a lot of us. Too many drugs I think. My number is xxxxxxxxxx if you need me.”
My thoughts: Sandrine was “concerned” that Ian, (Sandrine’s ex-partner and Bradley’s friend), would put “their sex videos” on the net and then she said “two weeks later” that she’d “imagined it”? What? She imagined being concerned? This statement doesn’t make sense.
In the time I knew her I can say with absolute certainty, Sandrine did not take drugs. Sandrine would very rarely have a little puff on a joint when I offered it to her, but mostly she declined.
Bradley: “Talked to Ian last night…he is concerned….told me a lot of worrying stuff about her mental state.” “Keep me informed huh?”
My thoughts: Bradley’s statement that Ian had told him “a lot of worrying stuff about her mental state” stands out to me because on the day of Sandrine’s disappearance it was Bradley himself telling people that Sandrine was “suicidal”. It wasn’t true, but that’s what he said.
Christine: Will let you know.
Bradley: (28th of July 2012) “No word yet huh?”
Christine: No word yet
Bradley: (same day at 11:06 PM) “I feel so bad. I wish Sandrine would turn up. I sat up with her so many times, she really melted me down. I feel like I failed her as a friend because I refused to help her that last time we spoke. We were both as depressed as each other. Every time I see someone post her missing message I want to die. Why couldn’t I just suck up all my problems for one more phone call? If she’s done anything to herself, I don’t think I can live with myself “
Christine: Once we get her back we can all sit down with her and talk.
My thoughts: This was Bradley’s first mention to Christine that Sandrine may have done ‘something to herself’. Was Sandrine as depressed as Bradley had claimed? According to her family she had planned to spend the weekend with Bradley at Chenrezig Buddhist retreat in Eudlo, for Bradley’s birthday, they had organised it. Sandrine, on the afternoon of the day she vanished spoke to another person, confirmed by the family’s private detective that person reported that Sandrine said she was going camping with Bradley.
Bradley states, “Every time I see someone post her missing message I want to die”. What a clever ploy! He found a way to excuse the fact that he refused to post or share the “Missing Sandrine Jourdan” Facebook posts that Sandrine’s family had made up to spread the word to find their loved one. Considering his very long history of threatening to kill himself when he was accused of something it seemed that people were walking on eggshells for him at this stage.
1st of August 2012
On the 1st of August Bradley came to my house unexpectedly. On that day, as I have written in previous blogs, I confronted him about my belief that he was involved in Sandrine’s disappearance. Bradley had planned to go to the ‘overflow’ campground in Kenilworth, telling his Facebook page ‘Clan of the Van’ members on the 31st of July that he was going to search for Sandrine. He also contacted me personally and asked if I would go too.
I had told him that I might make it out there, but I had a lot to do. In reality there was absolutely no way I would ever be alone with him again, as I believed that he was a dangerous man by that point.
That day, after I told him I thought he was the prime suspect in Sandrine’s disappearance due to the lies he’d told about his alibi, the anger he felt toward Sandrine and his disturbing behaviour, he again pulled the ‘I’m suicidal’ card, messaging Sandrine’s sister, even though he’d never met her.
Christine called ‘000’ explaining that Bradley had threatened suicide, as we are all advised to do when one announces that they are going to suicide. But his manipulation backfired. The police tracked him down at the overflow campground in Kenilworth, picking him up and holding him while they searched his car. How do I know this? Because I was the one who asked the police to search his car. I told them that I believed he was responsible for Sandrine’s disappearance.
Soon after a police officer from Kenilworth station informed me over the phone that they had searched his car. They had found a replica hand gun in his van. He also told me that Bradley was being held in Nambour. There is a brief mention of him being held by Nambour police on the 2nd of August in the police report. Although the name of the person was redacted, I know it was him based on the conversation I had with the officer at the time.
On the evening of the 2nd of August 2012 at 11:38 PM, Bradley sends Christine a message out of the blue… Bradley: “I did a massive check of the overflow…nothing. Also made full statements to the CIB…hope it helps…”
My thoughts: Bradley made no mention of his threat to suicide or the fact that he was held and questioned by police involuntarily. In the Police Report it also says, regarding the person held at Nambour Station on the 2nd of August, that said person was ‘tagged and linked to occurrence’. I think the verbiage is self-explanatory.
Did Bradley really do a “massive check of the overflow” campground? I don’t think he did. My partner at the time was a park ranger. He visited the overflow after Bradley was locked up. He told me that there was no sign that Bradley had moved from the location where he’d parked and that Bradley had left excrement, toilet paper and an empty noodle packet behind. And how could he have done a “massive search” if the police had picked him up soon after he arrived?
Messages between Christine and Bradley continue,3rd of August 2012 10:46 PM
Bradley: “Anything new?”
Christine: No, no news
Bradley:
Bradley: “Did she ever hitchhike to your knowledge”
Bradley: “?”
Christine: No!!! No way. Sandrine had trust issues. She would not get into a stranger’s car.
Bradley: “Thats good…”
My thoughts: Bradley, fishing for news. I agree with Christine, Sandrine would never have accepted a lift from a stranger, and she didn’t need to that day, she was waiting for Bradley.
March the 23, 2013, approximately eight months later
Bradley: “Please do not post things on my timeline any more. An inbox will do the trick.”
Christine: Well I had tried to contact you via friends and no reply came through as you have me blocked, I could not message you either.
Bradley: “Do you blame me for blocking you? You have embarrassed me twice in front of all my friends when it wasn’t necessary. I have always been co operative with your family even though I didn’t have to be. I have been inbox contactable and you even had my phone number before. I put so much time and effort into Sandrine over the years to help her with her problems and she screwed me over. If you want to blame anyone for any of this, blame Pieta Morgan. She’s the one who went around spreading the rumours that made me WANT to kill myself that day. I haven’t done anything but try to do the best by everyone and I’m a nervous wreck because of it. I’m sick of helping people who fuck me over but I keep on doing it because I’m a nice person. I hope Sandrine turns up soon so I can tell her all the troubles she has caused many people.”
Bradley continues: “I’m sorry for what I just said but you don’t know how this has effected some of my life long friendships and my family. My mother, daughter and many of my relations are attached to my face book. I know that you are under a lot of strain too but i ask you to stop embarrassing me… I’m already heavily medicated and am seeing suicide counselling. I was suicidal BEFORE Sandrine did all of this to me. All of this is not helping…”
Christine: Ok. No worry at all.
My thoughts: Bradley admits that he had blocked Christine, saying “Do you blame me for blocking you?”, and then denies that she was blocked. He made it very clear to Christine that he does not want any “missing Sandrine Jourdan” posts on his timeline, because it embarrasses him. He claims Christine has embarrassed him twice in front of all his friends when it wasn’t necessary. In other words, Christine has asked Bradley questions about the day Sandrine disappeared, and for some reason it embarrassed him. He claims he has always been co operative with Sandrine’s family even though he didn’t have to be, while refusing to allow the ‘Missing Sandrine Jourdan’ posts on his Facebook wall and refusing to answer questions. He claims to have been “inbox contactable”, even though Christine stated that she wasn’t able to contact him. He claims he “put so much time and effort into Sandrine over the years to help her with her problems and she screwed him over”, but is unable to explain how Sandrine screwed him over. He suggests that if Christine wanted to blame anyone for any of this, she should blame me because I, supposedly, “went around spreading the rumours that made him want to kill himself that day”. I was not spreading rumours, I was trying to find my friend. I had contacted Sandrine’s family, the police and two other drumming camp members to confide in regarding my suspicions. It was Bradley’s own odd behaviour, as Christine said in her messages to him, that was bringing him ‘undone’.
He claims he tries to do the best by everyone and he’s a nervous wreck because of it. This is a lie, and I confidently say that because he’s never tried to do the best by anyone at all. He’s sick of helping people who fuck him over but he keeps doing it because he’s a nice person. And he hopes Sandrine turns up so he can tell her all the troubles she has caused many people.
When he makes these kinds of statements it is obvious how angry Bradley is with her. I have included two other quotes from Bradley, below.
I don’t know anything except that if Sandrine is alive I am pretty pissed off with her.
I have heard nothing but if she turns up I’m gonna kick her ass! Worrying all these people..
Bradley then must have realised that he was exposing his true face, because he apologises to Christine for the previous message.
Bradley claims that Christine didn’t know how this has effected some of his life long friendships and his family, as if it even compared to what Christine’s family and of course Sandrine’s children were and are going through. I find it surprising that he didn’t want his family to see the ‘Missing Sandrine Jourdan’ post considering that his mother and his family were used by Bradley as his ALIBI at the time of Sandrine’s disappearance! Why wouldn’t he want them to see the ‘Missing Sandrine Jourdan’ post? They could have stood up for him and reassured everyone that Bradley was with them at the time that Sandrine disappeared. Rather, he was adamant, he didn’t want them to see it. Hopefully I’ve made my point clear.
He claims he knows that Christine is under a lot of strain too, but asks her to stop embarrassing him by posting the ‘Missing Sandrine Jourdan’ post. His self-centredness knows no bounds. Christine is looking for her missing sister, and she’s having to deal with Bradley who seems to think he’s the one suffering more than anyone, and it’s everyone’s fault but his.
He claims that he was already heavily medicated and was seeing suicide counselling. He claims that he was suicidal before “Sandrine did all of this to me”, and that Christine posting “Missing Sandrine Jourdan” posts on his wall is not helping him.
Bradley claimed that Christine had embarrassed him in front of his friends by sharing a post on his Facebook wall asking for help to bring Sandrine home.
Christine replies: Ok. No worry at all.
Bradley: “Thank you….have you heard anything at all yet? I’m annoyed at Sandrine but I still love the girl and hope she is ok.”
My thoughts: Bradley is still “annoyed” with Sandrine, 8 months after her disappearance. He calls her the “girl”, although she is a mother of three children and would have been 39 years old at the time.
Christine: Nothing at all sorry. Just had stickers made up. Will let you know if I do hear anything, but not looking good so far
Bradley: “If you want me to put some around up the coast, send them to the address on the back of the envelope I sent you today and I’ll put them up.”
Christine: Ok cool. Thank you.
Bradley: “I’m going to leave you unblocked as long as you stop embarrassing me….deal?”
Christine agreed, but explains to Bradley that she needed to get hold of him and that she had never embarrassed him before he blocked her. She explains; ‘I needed to get answers from you, no embarrassment intended, only answers…Just needed answers straight up from you, not via a third party.’ She then states that she hopes he’ll get better soon, and good on him for getting help.
Bradley: “I’m glad we had this chat….I don’t want enemies…..”
My thoughts: Bradley seems confident enough to make a ‘deal’ with Christine. What was the ‘deal’? Bradley didn’t want Christine to ever post anything about Sandrine on his Facebook pages. Bradley seems to be obsessed with his “enemies” and has mentioned these people several times in various dialogues, in relation to accusations made against him.
Christine: Neither do I, never have. I just need answers ok ?? You’d do same if it was your sister, brother, mother etc. Glad we did also
Bradley: “Sandrine was like my sister….you have no idea….”
My thoughts: Classic Bradley. Although he is unable to display any measure of compassion for Sandrine or her family, he has the audacity to infer that his relationship with Sandrine is comparable to Christine’s relationship with her.
Christine: Ok, all good. Sandrine was or is my sister. Until I find her or her body I can not stop looking. I promised her kids and my mum.
Bradley: OK
28th of January 2014, 1 year, 6 months and 15 days after Sandrine’s disappearance.
Bradley: “Look I don’t mind you sharing your stuff on my walls but I have no interest in getting into discussions about it on a public forum…”
My thoughts: Bradley has “no interest” in discussions about Sandrine’s disappearance on his ‘Clan of the Van’ Facebook group page. A true friend of Sandrine’s would do what ever it took to find her, but he wouldn’t allow a simple discussion about her disappearance on one of his Facebook pages.
Bradley: “It is a site for van enthusiasts, not politics.”
Pictured, the van that Bradley drove at the time of Sandrine’s disappearance.
My thoughts: Bradley considers the discussion about Sandrine’s disappearance as “politics”. His label, ‘politics’, in this context, is utterly offensive.
Christine: Sharing my stuff? For fuck sake, she was your friend for over 10 years.. Not once have you shared her story. I hope to get answers. I have tried to pm you several times but I seem to be blocked, and we did have an agreement; no embarrassment. You [promised] that you would leave communications open. But you’re allowed to go back on your words but I’m not hey!!!!
Bradley: “You have not been blocked…. I’ve been open to you all this time.”
My thoughts: I think they call that, Bradley’s comment above, ‘GAS-LIGHTING’. Bradley had blocked Christine on his ‘Majic Mirra’ Facebook account.
Christine: No, you have not. I tried several times to contact you and your name, I can not message you. We had a deal, you broke it not me, and I’ll make sure all will see that. I’m sick of ‘he said she said’.
Bradley: “Well, its been open, that’s all I can tell you.”
Christine: All Sandrine did was tell you the fucking truth about Justine after you’d been bugging her, I have proof, messages and texts ok, so don’t go there. She trusted you as a friend.
Bradley: “and you have my phone number. Look, I’ve told you and your family all I know ok”
Christine: I do not understand why you refuse to share her picture or even look at other avenues etc .. since you were the one who said she suicided…. My family? You have never been honest with us from day dot.
Bradley: “I just told everyone to feel free to share if they wanted….”
Christine: Mmm. You and Ian exchanged phone calls right? Well you and I know she said a lot bout Ian right? Funny that. Found interesting files on you on her [Sandrine’s] computer. For someone who says they never had sex with … threesomes ???? Oh, and videos. Sandrine was not as silly or crazy as you and Ian made her to be.
Christine: Yes you did, then you deleted it. ha ha
Bradley: “Look, I don’t want politics on my site…that’s what your site is for.”
My thoughts: Again, Bradley considers that the ‘Missing Sandrine Jourdan’ post and subsequent discussions are “politics”. When reading these messages for the first time I realised that Bradley had no intentions at all of helping to find Sandrine. Having the ‘Missing Sandrine Jourdan’ post on his Facebook page was the very least he could have done, but he simply refused. One thing is noteworthy here, Bradley’s ‘Clan of the Van’ group is rather small compared to his own ‘Majic Mirra’ personal page. But he doesn’t want ANY discussion about Sandrine at all, even on his rather obscure Facebook group wall.
The conversation continues…
Christine: But you’re ok to post about other missing people? Just not Sandrine hey.. And you wonder why I’m pissed… Come off it. Every time Sandrine’s [‘Missing Sandrine Jourdan’ post] gets posted you delete it but the other missing people you can? She was meant to be your friend.
Bradley: “I told you, I don’t mind posting stuff, I just want discussions kept on your official page.”
My thoughts: He only wants discussions about Sandrine on the Missing Sandrine Jourdan Facebook page, not his. Why? I think it’s obvious why; all the lies he told to his friends about Sandrine and his whereabouts the day she vanished would be uncovered.
Christine: For fuck sake, get over the fact Justine left you,ok. From what I heard from her and others Sandrine introduced her to a caring man, so get over it. It is your behaviour not Sandrine’s that drove Justine into another man’s arms. You forget, I have access to all emails and messages and previous texts. Justine left you, ok, get over it. Sandrine simply introduced her to Xxxxx as she had introduced Justine, her friend, to her other friends. And she would have introduced you to her friends, ok. No harm intended just love. For someone who says [they] don’t like drama, why are you causing yourself so much?
Bradley: “I’m over Justine, I wish her well…she wants babies and I don’t…simple as that.” “She is a nice girl…I want her to be happy.” “We were too different anyway.”
My thoughts: Wait, so Sandrine wasn’t responsible for Bradley’s relationship breakdown? He told me on the day that Sandrine disappeared that she was responsible for the breakdown of his relationship with Justine. In fact, he’d said it time and again to whoever would listen. Of course Sandrine wasn’t responsible, but this was the first time I’d seen him change his story about his issues with Sandrine.
Christine: See Brad, these comments make me see red when I know you hid her keys to stop her from leaving.
Bradley: “That was back then and she did the same to me.” “We fought a lot and consequently parted ways.” “It was meant to happen.” “It hurt a lot at the time but I’m fine now and I hope Justine is too.”
Christine: Look Brad, Justine has never lied to me or Sandrine’s kids . Please delete me so you can’t see any more of my comments, because I’ve had it.
Bradley: “So have I….I’m sorry you are going through so much pain. This has sucked for all of us. My family has been destroyed over all of this and a lot of my friendships.” “Sandrine’s whereabouts is a complete mystery to me too.” “I can see why people think i had something to do with it but I honestly didn’t.”
My thoughts: Bradley admits that he understands why people think he had something to do with Sandrine’s disappearance, but refuses to do anything to change their minds.
Christine: I have never been contacted by total strangers because of Justine’s behaviour, but have because of yours. You and you only have made them contact me. So please, let’s stop being polite here. I cannot help the fact that total strangers are contacting me and my family regarding you. Your behaviour is the only reason. So maybe stop that behaviour and you will not be bothered any more. Don’t play ‘poor me’ when you’re causing the drama, please.
Bradley: “I regret some of the stuff i said to her and I have apologized to her many many times since believe me.”
Christine: Oh, and by the way, so that this conversation doesn’t get put in the wrong context, I’ll be sending it to the [Drumming camp] group leaders. Don’t want to be made out as a bully.
Bradley: “I feel a bit bullied and wish it would stop.” “Concentrate your energies elsewhere because I don’t know where Sandrine is and you are wasting time and police efforts with me.” “I wish you well in your search for answers….good luck.”
Christine: You have no idea what position you put her and my mother in. Double suicide, you fucking arsehole. As her best friend, as you have POSTED, you knew what set her illness off. We as her family just went along with her till she calmed down. Especially since you suffer from the same you should have known that you not answering your phone would upset her, especially since she told you what you wanted to hear her whilst she was at Pieta’s. Yep that’s right, she always did something whilst she knew someone could or would listen, oh and she recorded it.
Christine continues: My sister might have been ill and stressed, but as her so-called friend of over 10 years, knowing her better than family, you should have known that you not answering your phone for 2 days would stress her to the point she might have thought she was not wanted when her own friend suggests double suicide, hey.
Bradley: “I’m not going to be able to help you any further…I’m sorry. Official channels if you must.”
My thoughts: Bradley won’t help Christine any more, not that he ever did. He’s basically saying, ‘If you must find your sister don’t ask me for help’. And, please note, Bradley has not denied that he attempted to coerce Sandrine into suicide.
Christine: Why don’t you share her story? After all she was your friend. Don’t get that!! Oh don’t worry, official channels will be alright. You say that she was your friend but you never shared her story, it upsets you too much. What a joke. What do you think her kids feel like every day? Oh, no sorry, it’s about Brad, not her 3 kids hey!!!
Bradley: “I have shared her story…several times. It’s on clan of the van several times and it has been on my timeline heaps.” “I even asked people to share just before i took the conversation off…it’s still on clan of the van…i just don’t want any discussions…”
My thoughts: Again, Bradley doesn’t want ANY discussions about Sandrine on his Facebook pages. Do you see what I see?
Christine: I have shared [the ‘Missing Sandrine Jourdan post] on the Clan of the Van’s [page] and you simply have allowed it. Honestly, I may be blonde but not fucking stupid as to whom shared the post.
Bradley: “You keep calling me names and accusing me of things I haven’t done. How do you think that makes me feel? I’ve been talking to you and the police any time you have asked me. Of COURSE I care about Sandrine. We were close before she got all weird.”
…End of messages between Christine and Bradley…
Has Bradley been honest about his whereabouts the day Sandrine vanished?
Officer Steve Watts, the main officer in charge of finding Sandrine, claimed that he checked Bradley’s “phone records”. If that were true, why didn’t Steve Watts know that Bradley was not where he claimed to be, until December 2013? I don’t know much about police procedures, but perhaps Steve Watts had a brief look at one of Bradley’s Facebook messages or text messages, rather than do a full scan on his phone?
Daz has made several statements about the time that Bradley spent at their home, and they are all similar, but the times that Daz said Bradley left his house have changed. Initially Daz said that Bradley told him that he had an “appointment at 4:30, but he didn’t seem to be in a hurry to leave”, Daz’s latest statement was that Bradley told him he was heading to his parents house for his birthday. I am not implying in any way that Daz is being untruthful, as it has been 11 years since the day in question. But we have notes and Facebook messages that contradict Daz’s most recent statement.
To add to the confusion, when we checked the messages between Bradley Ainsworth and Lish, Daz’s partner at the time, we found the exact messages sent hours apart. How was it that the times of the messages sent between Bradley and Lish were anomalous that day? I may have an answer, it has not been confirmed at this point, but Lish posted on Facebook that morning, the morning of the 13th of July 2012, that her computer had been hacked and that someone kept logging in as her.
When I think back to those days I remember Bradley using my computer when he visited my house. If I had left my Facebook profile open he could, if he’d wanted to, have accessed my password. Did he ever use Lish’s computer? Did he access Lish’s Facebook that morning from his parent’s house? He has only admitted to being online that morning.
Bradley has made numerous, conflicting statements as to his whereabouts the day Sandrine vanished.
I’ve heard people say that Bradley Ainsworth doesn’t have it in him to cause harm to anyone, and at one point I felt the same way. However, since just before Sandrine’s disappearance I saw the cracks in him. As Christine stated, many people have come forward with horrible allegations against him.
In 2014 I spoke to Steve Watts, the main officer assigned to finding Sandrine, and I told him that I thought that Bradley Ainsworth was responsible for Sandrine’s disappearance. Steve Watts told me that the people who interviewed Bradley did think he was “odd”. However, Steve Watts couldn’t possibly know just how ‘odd’ Bradley is.
The following statement was from one of Bradley’s ex-girlfriends…
Before we broke up he went to a camp and treated me like crap, but just before that he started a fight with me over having my friends in my house who were visiting me and their left he started yelling at me and accusing me of lots of different stuff and I told him to cut it out as he was pissing me off and told “that’s it get out of my house” and he ended up yelling in my face so I repeated to him 3x “get out of my face and step back” and he shoved his forehead against mine and yelled “what the fuck are you going to do about it?” So I screamed at the top of my lungs “get the fuck out of my face and get the fuck out”, and I was that loud it made all my neighbours come running as I’m the quiet one here, so yes I know there’s something wrong with him. He stalked me for a few weeks coming into my yard and I have big male neighbours who chased him off. I have previously threatened to call the police on him if he shows up here But I have protection in this house and have the xxx security number on hand cause I’m live right next door and they seen him come and go into my yard a few times.
An ex-girlfriend of Bradley Ainsworth tells her story.
I’d like to bring to your attention a ridiculous ‘movie’ Bradley made that is currently on YouTube. In this movie he refers to himself as ‘Brad Worth’. The character Brad Worth is wanted for murder, but is able to escape justice. As you will see in the screenshots the date of the 13th of July is prominent, as are ‘missing people’. The ‘movie’ is a 14 part series. The screenshots below were taken toward the end of part 14.
*The video has been archived on archive.org.
Don’t get me wrong, I like it when people embrace who they are, live life their way, and as long as they’re not hurting anyone, why not? It’s your life, you should be authentic. But there are limits, of course. Most normal people understand the difference between a healthy adult relationship and a fruitful conversation or argument verses harassment, manipulation, stalking and control, but Bradley has no clue.
At this point, 11 years after Sandrine disappeared, it seems the only person who believes that Bradley has consistently told the same story with regard to his whereabouts that fateful day, is Officer Steve Watts.
Bradley told Officer Steve Watts that he spent the evening at his parents house celebrating his birthday. On the other hand Bradley was adamant in his messages to Christine that his family, his mother, must not see the “Missing Sandrine Jourdan” post on his Facebook page.
I would have expected an innocent person to publicly introduce their parents and let them tell his friends that Bradley was with them the evening that Sandrine vanished. If you were unjustly accused of being responsible for the disappearance of another, surely you would want your movements verified?
Bradley is not the harmless hippy that some see him as, he is a predator. If you have read my previous blogs you will have read that there were multiple, serious accusations from women in the drumming camp, the same camp that Sandrine attended. I know that several drummers referred their allegations to police.
Why was there only a brief mention of Bradley Ainsworth in the Coroner’s report?
Sandrine’s disappearance has been handled poorly by police, and all that love Sandrine are frustrated and angry at the lack of progress in her case. From my point of view, what was needed in this case was investigation and actionon the evidence that had already been given to the officer/s overseeing it.
There was, from the start, PLENTY of evidence given to the police about Bradley Ainsworth’s suspicious behaviour at the time of Sandrine’s disappearance, but the police officer in charge of the case, STEVE WATTS, refused to listen or act on the information he received, especially, it seems, when it came to Bradley Ainsworth.
94 weeks after Sandrine disappeared Officer Steve Watts sought me out to make a statement, and I did. However, he literally changed the statement I gave several times, to the point that we reached a stalemate, as we could not agree on what I had actually told him. Fortunately I recorded our meeting.
After several emails asking Steve Watts to change the incorrect details in the statement he wanted me to sign, and thinking he would have corrected those mistakes, I attended the Burpengary police station to sign the document. When I read Steve Watt’s final version I was faced with a dilemma; I could not sign it as it was as so many details were incorrect and not what I had said. The best that I could do was cross out the still incorrect sections and initial them and then sign it. This, it seems, is what lead to my statement not being included in the report for the coroner. I cannot be absolutely certain because the majority of the report was redacted, but if I am correct and it was my statement that was referred to in the police report, my statement was deemed “incomplete”. Considering Steve Watts’ disinterest in Sandrine’s case, it is no surprise. The coroner’s office then could not have known how heavily Bradley Ainsworth was involved on the day that Sandrine disappeared.
Steve Watts has since moved to another station and Sandrine’s case was handed to Officer Beddoes. When I realized that my statement had probably not been ‘completed’ or sent to the coroner’s office for the purpose of a coroner’s report, I emailed Steve Watts to ask him for Officer Beddoes’ contact details. But Watts did not reply to my email.
The inaction of Steve Watts in Sandrine’s case has led to her family and friends doing the heaving lifting, and we are making progress! Go TEAM JOURDAN! 😉
He can’t elude scrutiny any longer
Bradley Ainsworth has been asked publicly to help to find Sandrine by answering questions about his whereabouts on the day that she disappeared, his birthday, the 13th of July 2012. That day he and Sandrine had plans to get together, to go to Chenrezig Buddhist Retreat in Eudlo, Queensland. But Bradley refuses to answer questions. All he can manage in his defense is to slander others, and that is exactly what he did to Sandrine before and after she disappeared, he slandered her. What is slander?
You might wonder, and rightly so, why would Bradley slander Sandrine? Wouldn’t it make more sense and be more advantageous to him to pretend that he cared about her? Well, to Sandrine’s sister Bradley wrote that he loved Sandrine and that she was like a sister to him, but to others he said she was crazy, suicidal, he alluded to Sandrine being untrustworthy, and accused her of being responsible for his relationship breakdown.
Bradley has a long history of slandering people that have made accusations against him and those that call him out for his behaviour. Slander is Bradley’s ‘modus operandi’, his pattern. Perhaps in the past slander has worked for him, but this time it will not.
Patterns of Behaviour
Bradley was expelled from the drumming retreat that Sandrine and I, and many others attended, 18 months after Sandrine disappeared, for various disturbing reasons. A group of ‘Elders’, long term retreat goers, were nominated to deal with the many accusations against Bradley.
Below is a screenshot of what one of the Elders said about reports about Bradley, I have included the dialogue in text form as it may be easier to read.
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Message to Retreat Elders – Retreat Elders, this is the “Action” thread to to deal with (1) written and verbal complaints by 6 women, regarding Brad’s appalling treatment of them. (2) Re-promoting the traditional Retreat values that our event is Family and Single women friendly and safe. The Retreat Admin and Elders have received 6 complaints about Brad’s behaviour towards them, and the complaints are very serious and can not be ignored. I prefer to keep the names of the victims private where possible. Here is a list of actual key words and statements referring to Brad’s treatment – These are actual comments and accusations (29 written & verbal) from 6 women when describing their experience with Brad. *Literally fearful of him *Deceitful Manipulative *Bitter *User *Nasty *Raped me *Threatened me *Drugged me *Suicidal Bludger *Takes advantage of people *Sneaky *Uses sympathy *Liar *Abuses women *hostile *He took video of us having sex and used it to blackmail *Insulting *I have nothing nice to say about him at all. *I personally would like it if he was removed from the group for everyone’s sake. *I do not feel comfortable about being around him. *I do not trust him at all. *I do believe that he should be fully investigated by the authorities and by the sounds of it, they will have a field day amongst his video collection. *He is evil, manipulating and a compulsive liar… I am NOT gossiping, these are FACTS but I thought you had a right to know what others have been too scared to relay. *Please do not pass this info onto Brad, as I am fearful of him he plays on women for sympathy and is VERY clever…. *Brad is an evil manipulative sick bastard It was his lying to my face which made me decide that he was not a friend I needed to keep. *Basically, I felt really betrayed by someone I considered a friend. *I don’t feel safe and comfortable at the retreat knowing Brad is there. *He stalked me for a few weeks coming into my yard n I have big male neighbours who chased him off. *I have previously threatened to call the police on him if he shows up here.
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A group of 9 ‘Elders’ in our drumming camp collecting information from women in our group of which Sandrine was a member.
How did Bradley respond to these accusations? And yes, he did read them.
There’s a whole lot more, but I’m sure you can see how Bradley operates from just those few examples: he slanders people to take the focus from himself. He didn’t seem to deny the accusations either, he just said “I’ve done nothing wrong”.
What is particularly disturbing is how he attempted to coerce the Elder who gave Bradley the news that he was to be expelled, to give him the names of his accusers, saying “If they don’t want to talk to me, they don’t have to. If you give me names…I will know the names of my accusers and can fix this bullshit.” His behaviour points to him being a clear threat to his accusers, just as they feared he would be.
You may be wondering, did the police know of these accusations? Yes they did. All the documents that are referred to in my blogs were given to the police at different times, but they were not acted upon.
Another pattern
At the risk of being labelled insensitive, it has to be said, another tactic that Bradley uses when he wants to be seen as a victim, is threats of suicide. It was mentioned as a complaint about him above. I have found that his threats of suicide were only a means of manipulation.
I have searched for a reason as to why someone would almost weekly threaten suicide but never seem to attempt it, but there is not a lot of information out there except to say that ALL threats of suicide should be taken seriously. In Bradley’s case, if he were to be taken seriously, those around him would be calling ‘000’ so often he would be permanently on suicide watch.
When Sandrine called me on Wednesday the 11th of July 2012 asking me to check up on Bradley because he’d threatened to kill himself, well, I told her not to worry and that he wouldn’t do it. I tried to contact him, but I did that for Sandrine’s sake. I knew his pattern. And yes, I know, it sounds insensitive. But again, it is his modus operandi. He uses threats of suicide to lure people to him, and I have various examples of this dark behaviour.
Bradley’s answer to being expelled
When Bradley was expelled from the Drum Retreat he rapidly gathered his allies and began a private post for those that he thought were loyal to him. Of course not all were, and this private thread was shared privately.
The thread below is just another side of Bradley Ainsworth. Here he makes it clear that he doesn’t want any questions about him or the accusations about him asked openly, he asks his loyal followers to ask him questions in private only. He has assured anyone with questions for him, not that he will answer their questions, but rather, give them the “reasons” why certain people have said what they did about him.
Bradley also speaks of the police not wanting information from the Drum Retreat attendees, and this may or may not be true… it seems true, considering that Steve Watts did nothing with the reports he received, but I suspect that is not the reason Bradley announced it. He certainly has been caught in a lie here too, when he states that the police have never approached him and that HE approached them. I know for a fact that he was held and questioned at Nambour police station on the 2nd of August 2012 regarding Sandrine’s disappearance.
A call to Sandrine’s Drum Retreat Friends
Many of Sandrine’s friends from the Drum Retreat have come forward to Sandrine’s sister, Christine, myself and Graeme Crowley to help put this puzzle together, but there are still some who have been, well, uncooperative.
I’m calling Silvi and Rosie; please come forward with the information that you have. And surely, if you believe that Bradley Ainsworth is innocent then nothing that you have can incriminate him, right? I don’t know what you’re afraid of, but I do know that Sandrine was close with you, Silvi, and you too Rosie, because Sandrine’s family have access to ALL of Sandrine’s Facebook messages. And of course, you are, or at least were both very close friends of Bradley.
Silvi made the birthday cake for Bradley’s birthday that fateful day, the 13th of July 2012, the day Sandrine disappeared and attended the Friends of the Forest retreat with Bradley that weekend.
There is another person that needs to come forward, his name is Steve M, one of Bradley’s best camping buddies, from the Glasshouse Mountains. Steve was not on Facebook at the time of Sandrine’s disappearance, but he did announce at a Drum Retreat gathering in Aratula that there was a program that he had seen on television about Sandrine being found alive and well. Of course no such program was ever aired so his statement was not true. Did he announce this fictional program to protect Bradley Ainsworth or did he just repeat what Bradley had told him? I don’t know, but we all, Team Jourdan need to know! Why, Steve did you announce to other retreat goers that Sandrine was alive and well and featured on a television show when it was not true?
And yes, again, the police knew of Steve M’s announcement, but Steve Watts claimed that unless someone recorded him saying it, it was just, and I quote “Chinese whispers” (which I’m pretty sure is considered to be a racist statement, so don’t shoot the messenger!).
Stay tuned…
As Graeme Crowley announced on his podcast, Bring Home Sandrine, there will be a documentary aired by ‘Under Investigation’ with Liz Hayes in February of 2024, and no doubt there will be more blogs and podcasts coming too. We’re not going to stop, we’re not giving up, we will do everything in our power to bring the truth of Sandrine’s disappearance to light.
Thank you to those of you who have have helped by providing information to help find Sandrine.
I’ll leave you with a quote from Bradley Ainsworth, something that he wrote to me on Facebook…
For those who have read my previous blogs regarding the disappearance of my friend, Sandrine Jourdan, you will know well the person of interest that I consider to be the prime suspect, Bradley Ainsworth. Bradley Ainsworth was also known as Majic Mirra on FaceBook, although I have heard that he has changed the spelling on his profile since I began writing the Missing Sandrine Jourdan blogs.
This blog will explore Bradley Ainsworth’s behaviour around the time, and relating to, Sandrine’s disappearance for an insight into his activity and his personality. I have included previously unreleased dialogue and statements made by Bradley.
The quotes and conversations herein are all verifiable.
A quick revision
Sandrine Jourdan disappeared on Friday the 13th of July, 2012, at 5:30 pm from the suburb of Caboolture Queensland and has never been located. She did not have her car with her but had plans to go to a Buddhist retreat for the weekend with Bradley Ainsworth.
Bradley was angry with Sandrine the day she disappeared and had planned to confront her that day. He has a gap in his alibi of nearly seven hours on the day Sandrine disappeared and gave a false statement to the police about his whereabouts that day. He also told people that Sandrine was suicidal when she was not, on the day she disappeared.
The duplicitous nature of Bradley Ainsworth laid bare
The above photos are a factual representation of Bradley Ainsworth’s true nature; duplicitous. To be clear, I did not edit these photos, they are his own.
This is what the Merriam Webster online dictionary states about the word, DUPLICITOUS;
marked by duplicity: deceptive in words or action
Did you know?
The idea of doubleness is at the core of duplicity and duplicitous. Duplicity is the older of the pair; it comes from a Latin word meaning “double” or “twofold,” and its original meaning in English has to do with a kind of deception in which you intentionally hide your true feelings or intentions behind false words or actions. If you are being duplicitous there are two yous: the one you’re showing and the one you’re hiding. And—key to the idea of duplicity—you’re hiding the hidden you in order to make people believe something that’s not true.
On the day that Sandrine disappeared she told her family that she had made plans with Bradley Ainsworth to spend the weekend at a Buddhist retreat with him for his birthday. Bradley was living at Chenrezig Buddhist Retreat at the time.
Sandrine was unaware that Bradley already had plans to attend the ‘Friends of the Forest’ retreat in a forest near Kilcoy, Queensland, to celebrate his birthday there. Bradley’s long weekend at the Kilcoy retreat should have begun on Thursday the 12th of July, as the messages below show.
Majic Mirra Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 6:17pm UTC+10 Hello lovely…you comin to Kilcoy? Pieta Morgan Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 6:21pm UTC+10 When’s Kilcoy? Majic Mirra Wednesday, July 11, 2012 at 6:22pm UTC+10 Starts tomorrow lunchtime
But Bradley didn’t make it to the Kilcoy Friends of the Forest retreat at ‘lunchtime’ on Thursday the 12th of July as he had planned.
On the morning of the 13th of July 2012 Bradley messaged me, clearly furious with Sandrine saying he had planned to confront her that day.
I am gonna talk to Sandrine now and find out the WHOLE story once and for all.
I don’t think Sandrine had any idea how angry Bradley was or that he planned to confront her that day. According to her mother Sandrine was readying herself to spend a pleasant weekend with him at Chenrezig Buddhist retreat.
In the messages that Bradley and I shared on the morning of the 13th of July, Bradley told me he was no longer going to the Kilcoy retreat but was “goin to get professional help”.
Majic Mirra Friday, July 13, 2012 at 7:44am UTC+10 Not goin to Kilcoy. Goin to get professional help.
I had assumed at the time that he genuinely had intentions to seek help, because I thought the accusations he made against Sandrine that morning sounded paranoid, and I told him so. It turned out that Bradley did not seek help that day over his anger with Sandrine.
It was nearly a week later that I learned that Bradley almost missed his own birthday party on Friday the 13th of July 2012, arriving at Kilcoy ‘Friends of the Forest’ campground at 5 minutes before midnight. Considering that the camp was held for his birthday and that the drum retreats were so important to Bradley, being 36 hours late for a drum retreat was utterly out of character. Bradley would make sure that he arrived at camp earlier than most, any other time.
The birthday Cake
At 7:13 PM on the 13th of July Bradley posted a ‘thank you’ to his friends for the birthday wishes on his FaceBook page.
Hours later, as Bradley rushed into the Kilcoy camp Kitchen that night just in time for his birthday, at 5 minutes to midnight, he was greeted by a home-made birthday cake. One of the ‘Friends of the Forest’ group had made it for him. He blew out those candles at midnight on the 14th of July 2012.
This photo was taken at the Kilcoy camp kitchen at midnight on the 14th of July 2012 by one of the ‘Friends of the Forest’ group members.
Hours later, on the 14th of July, it appeared as though Bradley’s mother replied to his post. The post mentions a birthday cake, describing the confectionery on it.
On the 15th of July the picture of Bradley blowing out the candles on the cake was posted in the ‘Friends of the Forest’ FaceBook group.
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, the post from Facebook account ‘Glenda Noon-Ainsworth’, allegedly written by Bradley’s mother, described the same cake in laborious and contrived detail. It’s clear though that the post inferred it was his mother that made that cake, which she had not. The post also states that they had held a birthday party for him.
Bradley’s mother did not attend his Kilcoy birthday party and had not seen the cake that was made for him. I am certain that it was Bradley, using his mother’s FaceBook account to describe the cake, sending the Facebook post using his mobile internet dongle.
The significance of two mentions of the same birthday cake is that Bradley used that photo as an alibi. He told the police that he was at his parents house all day and that he had a party at their house on the afternoon of the 13th of July.
On Tuesday the 17th of July I received a phone call from a police officer asking if I knew where Sandrine was, as she had been reported missing by her brother. The first person I thought to contact after calling Sandrine’s number, was Bradley Ainsworth.
Pieta Morgan Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 11:17am UTC+10 Hey BRad, how are you? I’ve had the police calling about Sandrine.. her brother’s reported her missing.. have you heard from her at all? Majic Mirra Tuesday, July 17, 2012 at 12:33pm UTC+10 No I havent…been on camp all weekend. Will try and contact her now.
I waited for Bradley to call me or at least message me with news, but he didn’t. I was worried about Sandrine, but it wasn’t until later I realised that he was not worried about her at all.
Later I heard that Bradley had told people that Sandrine was suicidal at the time she disappeared. Of course, his assertion was a lie. The truth was, Bradley had attempted to coerce Sandrine into a suicide pact only two days prior.
My questions are; why would Bradley tell people Sandrine was suicidal when she was not? Is it a coincidence that Sandrine disappeared on the same day that Bradley told people that she might kill herself?
Below is a quote from one of Bradley’s friends regarding what he said about Sandrine on the afternoon of the 13th of July 2012, the day she disappeared..
He had stated Sandrine was unstable, and it wouldn’t surprise him if she’d kill herself. When asked why he said that, he said she was going crazy
I know why Bradley didn’t attempt to spin the same bullshit to me, because I would have known he was lying and I would have called Sandrine to check up on her. He messaged me the next day, five days after Sandrine’s disappearance.
Majic Mirra Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 8:23pm UTC+10 Have you heard anything about Sandrine? I have tried everything I think of. Pieta Morgan Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 8:26pm UTC+10 No I haven’t heard, I felt obligated, because her brother reported her as missing, to give the officer her number… but he asked about chenrezig, apparently at one time she was talking to her brother about staying there. The officer said he was looking into it and asked me if I knew anything.. She hasn’t returned my call either. Hope she’s ok, poor honey.
At this stage Bradley’s anger toward Sandrine the day that she disappeared played on my mind and I wondered how he could not have known Sandrine had plans to visit the place where he’d been living the day she disappeared. I should have seen his behaviour as a huge ‘red flag’ but he was notoriously self-centred and self-obsessed and I had come to just accept that from him like so many in our group had. I tried to tell myself that that was just how he was.
It would have been appropriate for Bradley to tell me that he’d had plans with Sandrine the day she disappeared, but he did not EVER mention to me his plan to go to Chenrezig with her nor did he mention going to a “drum retreat” with her. Compare this with what he told the A Current Affair reporter 2 years later…
5 minutes 43 seconds Reporter: “The day she vanished, her family say, Sandrine was suppose to be meeting up with another friend, Brad Ainsworth, and going to a retreat. Reporter: “Going to meet with her and going to a retreat, weren’t you?” Brad: “Yep, drum retreat.” Reporter: “Didn’t see her that day?” Brad: “Nope.”
I’m certain that Sandrine was not going to “meet” Bradley at a drum retreat, remember, she had no car that day. Bradley was less than a half an hour drive south of Sandrine that entire afternoon. It’s reasonable to deduce that Bradley had told Sandrine that he would collect her on his way north to Chenrezig Buddhist retreat, because otherwise she would have had to walk 47 kilometres to get there.
The next day, six days after Sandrine disappeared, Bradley wrote again…
Majic Mirra Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 12:51pm UTC+10 Any Sandrine yet? Pieta Morgan Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 1:12pm UTC+10 Not yet, I’m beginning to worry.. Majic Mirra Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 1:13pm UTC+10 Me too…our last conversation was not the best 😦 Pieta Morgan Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 2:59pm UTC+10 When did you last speak to her? Majic Mirra Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 3:22pm UTC+10 Would have been last tue or wed..
As you can see Bradley claimed to have last spoken to Sandrine on Tuesday the 10th or Wednesday the 11th of July. Please compare this statement to the one he made to the A Current Affair reporter 2 years later…
Reporter: “Can you tell us what happened to Sandrine?” Brad Ainsworth: “Nah, I talked to her on the last day but that’s it.”
I find Bradley’s answer, that he “talked to her on the last day” to be an unnerving statement. How did he know it was her last day? Hopefully there’s a psychologist out there that can explain his answer. All insights are welcome.
July 30, 2012 at 12:00pm UTC+10 Pieta: Have you heard anything about Sandrine? July 30, 2012 at 12:01pm UTC+10 Majic Mirra : I have heard nothing but if she turns up I’m gonna kick her ass! Worrying all these people.. Pieta: I really do hope you get the opportunity, not to kick her ass, but give her a hug like a true friend would. When I see you next we’ll talk.
As you can see, at this time, 17 days after Sandrine had vanished into thin air, Bradley was unable to hide his true feelings for her. He wanted to kick her ass? His message angered me.
Three days earlier he had messaged another of our mutual friends to say:
I dont know anything except that if Sandrine is alive i am pretty pissed off with her. I’ll tell you why I’m upset when I see you next. Wanna come to Generator this weekend..?
If Sandrine is alive Bradley is pretty pissed off with her. Chilling words. “Generator” is a festival. This message proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bradley had zero thought or care for Sandrine.
After I scolded Bradley for wanting to ‘kick Sandrine’s ass if she turned up’ he suddenly decided he wanted to help. He announced on his public Facebook page that he intended to search for Sandrine at the Kenilworth State Forest ‘overflow’ camp, inviting his FaceBook friends, and he messaged me personally.
Majic Mirra Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 9:22am UTC+10 I’m going out to Kennilworth today if ya wanna come? The overflow, I have no idea if she will be out there but I just feel like I want to do something…still feeling bad that I didnt want to help her in that last phone call with her but she melted me down. Gonna camp out there too….leaving caboolture at 11 Caboolture library is kicking me off the internet in 6 mins Pieta Morgan Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at 9:31am UTC+10 Ok, will try to get out there. Glad you decided to help 🙂 Best of luck 🙂
Bradley turned up at my house on the morning of the 1st of August 2012, uninvited and unexpected, to pick up his 3 large plastic barrels on his way to the Kenilworth State Forest. I don’t think he expected to find me at home.
He had, until that point, quietly refused to provide information, would not reply to requests for photos for missing posters to find Sandrine, he had slandered her, and he had lied about his alibi to Sandrine’s sister. So, by the time Bradley arrived at my house I was certain he had something to do with Sandrine’s disappearance. I confronted him, accusing of being the prime suspect in Sandrine’s disappearance. This is a portion of that conversation…
Brad: “So you think that I’ve done something to Sandrine? Pieta: “Yeah I do, I do.” Brad: “Thank you friend.” Brad: “Well if I’ve done something to Sandrine it will come out wont it. Pieta: “It will. Most definitely. It will definitely.” Brad: “Yeah. But I haven’t, I haven’t seen Sandrine.” Pieta: “You say that but I know you’re a liar. So that’s why I am completely maintaining my right to withhold an opinion to anyone else. And I’ve got nothing to report to the police. But, personally, I don’t trust you anymore.” Brad: “ Fine”
Bradley did not display any shock or hurt or dismay at my accusation, he didn’t display anger either.
He and his three large, blue plastic barrels left my house for Kenilworth State Forest where he had publicly invited his Facebook friends to join him to search for Sandrine.
That evening, the 1st of August 2012, Bradley sent Sandrine’s sister a text message.
At that time I called the Kenilworth police to ask them to search Bradley’s van, telling them that I thought he had something to do with Sandrine’s disappearance. They found a replica handgun in his van. I don’t know how thorough their search was otherwise.
From my perspective he’d faded into obscurity after that time as he’d blocked me on FaceBook.
But within 18 months Bradley, AKA Majic Mirra, had caused controversy once again, this time within the Drum Retreat that Sandrine loved so much and that our mutual circle of friends attended.
After many complaints against him from women in the Drum Retreat, some complaints being criminal in nature, he was expelled. His reaction to being removed from the group was stunning. Please see the slideshow below for some of the most startling comments made by Bradley as the saga of his expulsion unfolded. These quotes are a true insight into what lurks beneath.
With regard to the A Current Affair program that aired sometime in 2014, in my opinion Bradley’s answers were revealing, perhaps giving us more of an insight than he wanted to.
Reporter: “Brad Ainsworth says he was angry with Sandrine on the day she disappeared, and that’s why they didn’t meet.” Brad: “Yeah I was actually really upset, I’m sorry but I was. You know, that doesn’t mean I did anything to her.” Reporter: The family seem to think that you and maybe others have information that you’re not telling them.” Brad: “I don’t have any information. I think under the circumstances, you know, if the police are talking to you, you take it pretty seriously.”
Sandrine thought she was going to Chenrezig Buddhist retreat in Eudlo for the weekend with Bradley, not a drum retreat in Kilcoy. Bradley didn’t elaborate or explain what came of his plans with Sandrine that weekend. When he was asked if he saw Sandrine that day he simply replied “NOPE’.
But wait, there was still time for him to complain about how hard-done-by he was.
Brad: “This has just devastated me, all of this @#$%^ has devastated me.”
Bradley has since claimed that “his voice was silenced by ACA” (A Current Affair) and that they “only played what they chose to play”.
Bradley’s Alibis
Bradley told the police he was at his parent’s house all day and had a birthday party there before leaving for Kilcoy.
He told Sandrine’s sister that he was at Kilcoy the day Sandrine disappeared.
But there’s more…
And I was at Mums all morning the day she went missing, At Dazs place all arvo and at Kilcoy all weekend after. The police had access to my FB Phone and van…coz I gave it. Not the actions of a guilty guy… They are more interested in Pieta Morgan.
Please note, in this statement Bradley did not mention being at his parent’s house celebrating his birthday.
I never said I was up at Kilcoy all day…I said I went up Friday night. I was over at Daz’s place all afternoon and at Mums online in the morning….
Again, No mention of being at his parent’s house celebrating his birthday on the evening of the 13th of July but at least there is an accidental admission of a gap of nearly seven hours.
Brad: “Kilcoy, I was at my mum and dad’s all day” Pieta: “You said you were at Kilcoy” Brad: “Yeah I went to Kilcoy on my birthday, it was midnight. I got there about midnight.” Pieta: “Yeah five to midnight, yeah I know.” Brad: “Yeah, eh”
He did not mention that he was at Daz and Lish’s house in the afternoon of the 13th to me when I asked, and no explanation as to his whereabouts in that seven hours up until 5 minutes to midnight.
In conclusion
I wanted to share here the proof I have of the duplicitous nature of Bradley Ainsworth. If there were any questions about his intentions toward Sandrine on the day she disappeared hopefully the picture is becoming more clear.
Our goal is to find Sandrine, and I don’t think we can afford to gloss over the lies Bradley has told about his whereabouts on the day. The conflicting statements about how he felt about Sandrine and his history with other women are all relevant in her case.
If you have anything that was personally written by him and would like to help either eliminate or confirm him as a suspect as the author of the Rosetta Buntton letter, please contact Graeme Crowley by clicking on this link to his podcast series ‘Bring Home SANDRINE’.
I would like to finish by adding a quote by someone who knew Bradley Ainsworth AKA Majic Mirra, because I couldn’t have said it better, myself.
A vital read packed with information I haven’t seen before; conflicts of interest within the Australian government made Australian politicians ‘ripe’ to use against the Australian People! Traitors!
This was planned over 50 years ago here in Australia and the globe, the NWO aka The Old Underworld Order – video
The History Of the NWO In Australia– How We Got Here
Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments. They do so to support innovation, to bring products to market at unprecedented speed. Both of these reasons are partly plausible; the greatest deceptions are founded in a grain of truth. But the underlying behaviour is troubling.
Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain. Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health. Politicians and industry are responsible for this opportunistic embezzlement. So…
“We are struggling with trying to get the numbers up around vaccination rates,” he (David Crisafulli, Opposition Leader, Queensland) said.
“There may be cultural reasons, there may be health reasons, there may be anxieties — I think we’ve primarily captured the easy ones, it’s the extreme and the outlier ones we’re struggling with.”
If the language spoken by this parasite politician David Crisafulli doesn’t bother you then I have to question your morality.
When you hear of the colonizers speak of “capturing” Aboriginals and referring to the ones they cannot “capture” as the “extreme” and “outlier ones” it should bring to your mind what these colonizers have done in the past; taken the natural born rights from our Original People, “capturing” them and poisoning them.
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