Holie Pyke and Beaudy Bourke: How horrific Browns Plains attack played out

A young Browns Plains woman has fronted court for the role she played in a violent incident where a man was allegedly stabbed, threatened at gunpoint and taken to secluded bush.

A young Browns Plains woman has fronted court for the role she played in a violent incident where a man was allegedly stabbed, threatened at gunpoint and taken to secluded bushlands.

Holie Jade Pyke, 24, pleaded guilty in Beenleigh Magistrates Court on Monday to one count of deprivation of liberty (unlawfully detain/confine).

Holie Jade Pyke leaving Beenleigh court.

The court heard a male victim had been visiting his friend at a unit in Browns Plains when he was invited inside to 24-year-old Beaudy Phillip Bourke’s upstairs bedroom to socialise with other occupants living there including Pyke, who was Bourke’s girlfriend at the time.

Police allege two men then entered with their faces covered and one armed with a short firearm just after midnight on May 30, 2020.

Police prosecutor Zoe Melksham told the court the victim was allegedly threatened with the firearm and robbed of property including his phone after being searched in a “sexually degrading manner”.

“The victim has also been stabbed in the leg during this time,” she said.

“The males then left the address, stealing the victim’s motorcycle.”

The court heard one of the male offenders, who was a juvenile at the time, returned to the victim armed with a firearm at an unknown time later that morning.

He allegedly forced the victim to write down access information for his stolen phone and a receipt stating he had sold his motorcycle.

The second male offender, who police have identified as Beaudy Phillip Bourke, then returned and allegedly punched the victim in the head, causing him to fall on the bed.

Police allege the juvenile then said to the victim: “I know somewhere out in the bush where I can take you.”

The pair then got into an orange Hyundai Accent with the victim, who they had ordered to strip down to his underwear and shirt, and were joined by Pyke who sat in the passenger seat.

The court heard Pyke modified a pair of sunglasses with cardboard to cover the eyes of the victim as they travelled before Bourke allegedly placed something like a shirt over his head and held his neck down.

The car then drove for some time before becoming bogged on an off-road track in a bushland area in Greenbank.

The court heard Pyke gave the victim some camouflage tights to wear and he was told to get out of the car and start walking.

The victim then spotted a nearby roadway and made a run for it as Bourke chased him.

The victim yelled “Help me!” repeatedly as he ran along the road and jumped into the backyard of a nearby house and the occupants called the cops.

Pyke’s lawyer told the court she had been using drugs daily at the time of the offending and had only entered the vehicle at the instruction of Bourke, her then boyfriend.

“My instructions are that Ms Pyke was in a relationship that was abusive at that time,” he said.

“It was not a set of events that she had any control over.”

Magistrate Tracy Mossop sentenced her to nine months probation with no conviction recorded.

The court heard her co-offender Bourke was still remanded in custody and due to appear in court next on December 8, 2021.

He stands charged with extortion, assault occasioning bodily harm while armed in company, deprivation of liberty and common assault for the incident on May 30, 2020.

He also has been further charged with unlawful possession of weapons (short firearm) and authority required to possess explosives (ammunition) at Chambers Flat Rd, Marsden on May 21, 2021.