Man accused of attempting to kill, shooting at car while on motorbike

Attempted murder trial: Man accused of shooting at car from his motorbike on busy Rockhampton stretch faces Supreme Court.

A Central Queensland man who accused another man of shooting at his car, while they were both driving didn’t complain to police about it until 2.5 months later.

Joshua Adam Bradshaw has accused Travis Ian Jealous of shooting at him on Yaamba Road, somewhere between the Farm Street intersection and the Bunnings turn off, sometime between April 30, 2020, and June 1, 2020.

Mr Jealous pleaded not guilty on July 28 in the Supreme Court in Rockhampton to one count of attempted murder and not guilty to an alternative charge of intent to cause grievous bodily harm by strike with a projectile.

The jury was told it would be handling a sawn off firearm found in Mr Jealous’s possession in June 2020 with the firearm “tucked inside a motorcycle jacket”.

Mr Bradshaw told the jury he was sitting at the Farm Street lights headed towards Carlton Street just after sunset on the day of the alleged shooting.

He said he saw, in his rear view mirror, the shadow of a motorcyclist pull up close to his gold Holden Commodore at the lights.

Mr Bradshaw claimed that after reaching the speed limit of 60km/hr, he heard the rev of a motorbike engine, thought someone wanted to race him and turned to see the bike.

He alleged there was a bang and a flash and it took him a few seconds to realise it may have been a gun, sped off towards Yeppoon “Highway” (Road) and turned onto Yeppoon Road.

Mr Bradshaw said when he realised he was not being followed, he then turned onto Norman Road, Farm Street, around the Glenmore schools, up Carlton Street and on to his friend Lai Larni Cameron’s place.

Mr Bradshaw claimed he parked his car at the back of the property and saw the bullet hole in driver’s side passenger door.

He alleged he then got his friend to look at it.

Photographs of the car were shown to the jury including one with Mr Bradshaw sitting in the driver’s seat and a stick of some sort sticking out of the bullet hole, taken by police on August 16, 2020.

Crown prosecutor Joshua Philips said the bullet impacted the window’s “up and down” mechanism.

“Joshua Bradshaw is alive today by the thinnest of margins,” Mr Phillips said.

The Crown alleges Mr Jealous had been at Ms Cameron’s place before Mr Bradshaw’s arrival, had been on a motorbike and had a gun in his motorcycle jacket.

Mr Phillips said that a few days after the alleged shooting, Mr Jealous was with Ms Cameron when she asked him if he shot at Mr Bradshaw, to which Mr Jealous replied ‘yes’ and that he would do it again.

Mr Bradshaw also alleged Mr Jealous had approached him about a drug debt owed to another woman after Mr Bradshaw used an ATM at Allenstown in May 2020.

He claimed Mr Jealous had spoken to him on a number of occasions about this drug debt.

Mr Bradshaw told the jury he had known Mr Jealous for two years and they had a bad relationship.

He said he was, or had been, friends with Ash Wilson.

Defence barrister Kylie Hillard questioned Mr Bradshaw about what he knew of the relationship between Ms Wilson and Mr Jealous.

Mr Bradshaw told the court Ms Wilson “got around” with Mr Jealous.

Ms Hillard accused Mr Bradshaw of knowing more about the relationship between Mr Jealous and Ms Wilson.

“You knew she was pregnant with Mr Jealous’ child?” she asked.

Mr Bradshaw claimed he did not.

During cross examination, Ms Hillard pointed to evidence that Mr Bradshaw told police on June 9, 2020, after being pulled over in his car, that he knew Mr Jealous was in a relationship with Ms Wilson, saying “he has been seeing that girl who is now pregnant and always stays at the motel on the river”.

Ms Hillard also pointed to evidence Mr Bradshaw had been questioned a few times by police about the bullet hole in his car during other interactions and Mr Bradshaw had pointed the finger at Mr Jealous at least twice.

Two videos and screenshots of a Facebook Messenger log between Mr Bradshaw and Ms Wilson’s account were shown to the jury.

In the first video, sent on August 12, Mr Jealous ran his thumb across his neck.

Mr Bradshaw complained to police on August 14 about the alleged shooting.

In the second, Mr Bradshaw was recorded using Messenger to call Ms Wilson, asking for Mr Jealous.

The call ends after Mr Bradshaw told Ms Wilson that Mr Jealous had been trying to call him and she stated he was downstairs and she would get him to call Mr Bradshaw back.

Minutes later, Mr Bradshaw’s phone rings and he has a conversation with Mr Jealous, asking Mr Jealous what his problem was with him and why Mr Jealous shot at him.

Among the name calling, the court could hear Mr Jealous say he shot at Mr Bradshaw over money and he would do it again, and that he was aiming at his head.

Mr Bradshaw told Mr Jealous he was a bad shot and he was a “dumb c---” before ending the call and asking police, who had set up the video recording, if he could now block that account, claiming Mr Jealous would continue to try and contact him through it.

The trial continues today.