Our Suburb is Bellbowrie. It is one of several in western Brisbane, Queensland (Australia). Most people here are very friendly and the atmosphere is like a village. We have lived here for three years and seven in Chapel Hill (also in the west) so I am comfortable to speak about the western suburbs. The council offers daily, free buses for the students travelling out from here
With large open spaces and beautiful landscape, just near the river, this part of the west is regarded as one of the richer parts of Brisbane. House prices range from $AUD400,000 upwards. In parts, prices are as high as $2-3 Million. Our house is a fifty-year-old termite ridden renovator with some land I grow vegetables and my sons raise their chickens for eggs. Our neighbours have horses. The area is beautiful and full of wild-life. You can understand why the early settlers came here and eventually made it a pineapple farmland.
Over a year ago a body of a beautiful woman was found at Kholo creek three minutes drive from where we live. This was a very quiet place. The spot was between Mt Crosby and Anstead. In these two suburbs, families live in acreage properties, some farming and these two edge onto Bellbowrie. The discovery of this woman was shocking to all surrounding communities.
As it turned out, the story unfolded very slowly and pieces came together as police worked through the case. From the original story that hit the media; a mother of three daughters going out jogging and not coming home (according to her husband) to the wife being murdered by the husband himself. It has been a year but slowly the pieces have come together. The family lived in Brookfield which is about five minutes from us. The husband has been charged with murder.
Last night my 15-year-old son rung me from Canberra while on a school trip. He told me yesterday police were canvassing another suburb next to us, Pullenvale. It was an interesting piece of information. I had thought it may have been some drug related search. But, as it came on the news channel tonight, police had made a discovery of large quantities of chemicals they suspect were for bomb-making.
It turned out, the house owners were away in Italy and had rented their house to someone who police now suspect was trying to make bombs.
The suspect had been arrested in another incident in Sydney, NSW and traced back to this rental house on Cedar Rd, Pullenvale.
Today police were unable to move the large quantities of chemicals due which were declared unsafe. To ensure the safety of the nearby residents, Instead, most of the explosives were blown up after police secured the area.
It just goes to show that anything can happen anywhere and people can never be what you think they are. We always have to trust our gut and our instincts but in the end, if anything is going to happen, it will happen. Isn’t that a scary thought?
Links to the news stories;
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-15/gerard-baden-clay-guilty-of-killing-wife-allison/5548628
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You know, I’d like to say to you as a woman so far across the globe that its surrual that I am now sharing in all these worldly, wonderful worlds I wan’t before. So thank you, you write beautifully… and you write the heart of a mother protecting her innocent… sigh.. in my experience, when they finally grow up and granted they have not seriously damaged their future, you will feel better about the world. We are all surrounded by crazy crime, and acts of domestic violence are everywhere. Just keep being the strong beautiful person I can tell by first glance you are.. do your best, and somehow.. it will all work out, even if it seems impossible. Thanks for a familiar and thoughtful post.
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Hi Laura, thank you very much for your comment. I enjoyed what you wrote on Jason’s Blog wall. And, I really appreciate your comments and the fact that you are reading my writing. Keep enjoying yourself.
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I thought it was close to you guys. Such a beautiful part of the world. You just never know what is going on next door.
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Thanks Trish – scary but true.
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