Missing Sandrine Jourdan Part VIII

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 action on 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…