Amy Bowden’s boyfriend Ethan Ross hands himself in to police after five days on the run

He spent five days on the run, but now the man who shot up his dying girlfriend with meth to “save her” is back in police custody.

He’s spent five days as a “free man” after cutting off his electronic monitoring device – now Ethan Lenny George Ross is back behind bars.

Just before 6pm on Thursday evening, SA Police revealed Ross, 29 from Salisbury, had handed himself in to the Elizabeth Police Station after skipping his home detention bail last Friday.

It comes just a day after The Advertiser revealed he had cut off his ankle monitor and fled his bail address.

Ross was released on bail earlier this year after confessing to injecting his former girlfriend Amy Bowden with methamphetamine to try and “save her” from a heroin overdose.

Michelle Sposito, Amy’s mother who lives interstate, on Thursday evening told The Advertiser she had received a phone call from police telling her he was back in custody.

Ethan Ross leaving court.

He has handed himself into police.

“I am just feeling so relieved,” she said.

“I can just think about my own life again knowing he’s back behind bars. The last two days have just been totally draining. It hasn’t left my mind the whole time.”

Ross was released on home detention bail to an address in Salisbury in January this year, before pleading guilty to one count of supplying/administering a controlled drug, namely methamphetamine, to his former girlfriend Amy.

Court documents seen by The Advertiser in the days after Amy’s passing in February last year alleged Ross had messaged a drug dealer to deliver him “yellow bricks” to “wake Amy up” from her overdose.

To try and “balance out the downer” – heroin – with an “upper”, Ross administered methamphetamine to her, but that wasn’t enough to save her.

Amy Bowden's Parents Michelle Sposito and Bryan Bowden in Adelaide CBD. Picture: Ben Clark

Amy Bowden as a young girl growing up in Victoria. Pictures: Supplied by family

She passed away at the Redwood Park home with paramedics then forced to deliver the news to her mother, who lives interstate, over the phone.

Following his disappearance, Michelle on Tuesday evening said she felt let down after only hearing that afternoon that Ross had disappeared the Friday prior.

The Advertiser also revealed that the day before he went missing, Ross had been re-released on home detention bail after pleading guilty to twice breaching his bail conditions.

Ross is in custody tonight after handing himself into police just after 5pm, and will remain behind bars ahead of a court appearance on Friday.

Amy’s parents said they hoped he would not be released again.