Shane Bowden’s ex-partner Trudi McPhee speaks out after police offer $250K reward

The ex-partner of murdered bikie Shane Bowden has spoken out saying the Pimpama house he was gunned down at was only a temporary residence and the car he was driving was not his.

The ex-partner of murdered bikie Shane Bowden has spoken out to correct the record saying the Pimpama house he was gunned down at was only a temporary residence and not his home.

Trudi McPhee, who lives in Melbourne and has a child with Mr Bowden, told The Courier-Mail the Finks bikie member had only moved into the home nine days before he was murdered.

Ms McPhee said the BMW car Mr Bowden’s body was found in was not his and belonged to the boyfriend of the woman whose house he was staying at.

Neither the unnamed woman nor her boyfriend are accused of any involvement in Bowden’s death and nobody has been charged.

Trudi McPhee, who has spoken out about the death of her ex-partner, Bikie Shane Bowden.

Ms McPhee said she was speaking out to correct the record about Mr Bowden, her long-time on-again, off-again partner after Queensland police issued CCTV footage showing two men outside the Pimpama house where he died.

Police also offered a $250,000 reward for any information about Mr Bowden’s murder.

Mr Bowden, 48, had returned from a gym around midnight on October 12 last year before being shot dead by hooded gunmen in the driveway of the Pimpama property in Cox Rd.

Ms McPhee said Mr Bowden would have been “disgusted with this reward” and said her ex-partner had flown to Queensland from Melbourne to get away from Covid lockdown restrictions in Victoria that barred people from going to the gym.

Slain bikie Shane Bowden was only in Queensland temporarily, according to his ex-partner Trudi McPhee.

“Shane would not have wanted justice this way — he would have done it differently, but I like the legal way,” she said.

“This woman is one of many women Shane had over the years and was a root and boot — that is what he told me while he was on the Gold Coast.

“We spoke a couple of times a day and he told me everything.

“He only met the woman in person on September 17 last year and he had never met her before she found him on August 8 on Facebook.

“They spoke online but he had never ever heard of her until she contacted him on Facebook.

“She offered him to stay at her place to save money on a hotel while he was on the Gold Coast.

“But Shane was not living in Queensland – he was always going to return to Melbourne and was only in Queensland on business for the Finks.

“No amount of money can bring his life back and he wasn’t about rewards.

“When he was shot for the first time in Victoria he was offered victims of crime money and he just laughed at that.”

A car police said was used in the getaway.

Ms McPhee said Mr Bowden had loyal friends in both Finks and Mongols clubs even though he had switched clubs, returning to the Finks after a stint with the Mongols.

Police said a GPS tracker was installed on the car that Bowden was using weeks before he was murdered.

The vision released shows a silver Holden Commodore and a maroon Ford Falcon being driven from Ipswich towards Brisbane the day after they were purchased.

The driver of the maroon vehicle appeared to be wearing gloves, which police said indicated an attempt to hide their identity.