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Slain bikie Shane Bowden’s ex-partner says she fears he knew his killers

The ex-partner of slain bikie Shane Bowden says she fears he knew his killers as confronting footage of his execution made her ‘feel so sick in the stomach’.

Police release CCTV footage of Shane Bowden's final moments

Video footage of the last minutes of life for Finks bikie Shane Bowden have prompted an emotional response from his ex-partner Trudi McPhee who said she feared Bowden knew his killers.

She said she had hoped there would have been an arrest before now, nearly nine months after Bowden was gunned down and executed in the garage of a Pimpama house.

Ms McPhee, who has a child with Mr Bowden, said she was concerned every day the killers were at large.

She also said the car Bowden was driving when he died, a black BMW three series, was not his.

Two hooded men enter the garage moments after Shane Bowden drove a black BMW inside the Pimpama residence, where Crystal Clement was living.
Two hooded men enter the garage moments after Shane Bowden drove a black BMW inside the Pimpama residence, where Crystal Clement was living.

Police have released a series of video footage over the past two weeks and said there were still two more video releases to come.

“I think (police) ... have been given so much information from so many people,” she said.

“I believe they are waiting for more people to be exposed because this is a bigger thing than what they were led to believe.

“I just think that so far down the track, they’ve made no arrests whatsoever – they know who the men are who were in the video released on Monday at the rental car yard.

“This video shows a lack of respect ... for my family to see these cowards chase Shane down.

“This was a very personal message and to shoot him 21 times makes me feel so sick in the stomach.

“No one deserves this — there is no loyalty within the motorcycle gangs anymore.”

Police release CCTV footage of a tracking device fitted to Shane Bowden's car

Ms McPhee said it was chilling to watch the latest video which shows Bowden driving a black BMW into the Pimpama garage on Cox Rd before two hooded men run along the street and in through the open roller-door.

Seconds later they leave carrying what looked like guns.

Police said after shooting Bowden 21 times, two men take off in a silver Commodore being driven by a third person.

Bowden, a former Mongol turned Finks outlaw motorcycle gang member, had been living at the Pimpama house for nine days and police said he had returned from a gym session at midnight when he was shot 21 times.

Police say this is similar to the weapon used in the execution of Shane Bowden in Pimpama.
Police say this is similar to the weapon used in the execution of Shane Bowden in Pimpama.

Police announced a $250,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and released footage of two men they say had jerry cans of fuel later used to torch two cars connected to the killing.

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