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Police work to catch killers of former Mongols member Shane Bowden
By Jocelyn Garcia and Matt Dennien
October 13, 2020 — 11.00am

The killers of former Mongols motorcycle club member Shane Bowden remain on the run as investigations continue into the execution-style shooting.

Up to four assailants are suspected to have been responsible for Mr Bowden's death in his car outside his Gold Coast home about midnight on Monday.

"He's been executed," South Eastern Police regional crime co-ordinator Brendan Smith said.

"He hasn't even had time to open the door of his car, he's been shot through the window."

Police were called to a Cox Road unit complex in the suburb of Pimpama just after midnight, where Mr Bowden's body was found in his car after he returned from the gym and a takeaway food store.

"There is no risk to the community but obviously it makes it harder when these types of gangs are involved because they have their own ... codes of silence," Inspector Smith said.

Police were combing through "hours of video" related to the incident.

The 48-year-old had crossed the border to Queensland in August and was accused of lying on his border declaration after coming from Victoria and previously testing positive for COVID-19.

Mr Bowden was widely known for his role in the infamous "Ballroom Blitz" brawl between the Finks and the Hells Angels at the Gold Coast's Royal Pines Resort in 2016, where three people were shot, two were stabbed, and the resort's grand ballroom
sustained more than $40,000 worth of damage.

Inspector Smith said there was "nothing to suggest" Monday's attack was the result of inter-gang rivalries.

"It's clearly something to do with [his] background and what's happened over the last few months," he said.

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/police-work-to-catch-killers-of-former-mongols-member-shane-bowden-20201013-p564l4.html
============================================================= https://www.gangsterismout.com/2016/08/christopher-wayne-hudson-blitz.html has a 6 minute plus video of the Ballroom Blitz brawl. This website is awesome and the Hell's Angels tried to sue it out of existence. The guy who runs the site had a mental
breakdown because of the threats against him and his daughter and for awhile was into conspiracy theories and stuff but he snapped out of it which is great. He used to live in Surrey and saw first hand the HAMC drug dealing carnage in Whalley.
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Finks jailed for 'ballroom blitz' brawl on Gold Coast
Tristan Swanwick, CourierMail
September 5, 2008 12:00am
TWO members of the Finks Outlaw Motorcycle Club have been jailed for their part in the violent Gold Coast "ballroom blitz" bikie brawl.
Three men were shot and three stabbed when members of the Finks attacked rival Hells Angels bikies in a packed Royal Pines Resort ballroom in March, 2006.

Members and associates of the Hells Angels were sitting ringside at a kickboxing tournament when the large group of rival Finks, including Shane Scott Bowden, 36, and Nicholas "The Knife" Forbes, 39, arrived.

The fight started when Forbes threw a punch at Fink member Christopher Hudson, 30, who is awaiting sentencing in Victoria over a drug and alcohol-fuelled shooting spree in Melbourne last year that left one man dead and two other people injured.

A Brisbane District Court was shown dramatic footage of the now-infamous incident; with the tournament descending into chaos as warring bikies throw punches, chairs and glasses.

The footage clearly shows Forbes and Hudson coming to blows, before Bowden pulls a handgun and shoots Hudson twice in the face and back.

Forbes then holds Hudson against the ring while Bowden and another man rain more blows on him.

It is believed the shooting was retribution for Hudson, a former Finks member, deciding to defect to the Hells Angels.

However, the court heard Forbes was furious with Hudson because he had stolen a sapphire from his parents, which he intended to pawn to fuel his drug addiction.

Bowden and Forbes were yesterday sentenced to 6 and a half years' and 18 months' prison respectively for their roles in the melee, which took place in front of 1800 shocked spectators and caused $10,000 worth of damage.

Judge Milton Griffin also ordered Forbes serve a cumulative sentence of three and a half years for six counts of assault occasioning bodily harm in company and one of grievous bodily harm relating to another incident on the Gold Coast earlier this year.

These sentences will be suspended after Forbes has served 27 months behind bars.

"You were both involved in extreme lawlessness" Justice Griffin told the pair.

"That sort of violence in a public place can't be tolerated."

Three other men are still to face court over the incident. https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/jail-for-bikie-ballroom-blitz/news-story/780c3073504f7d5c7b8f71b2eadb1e87

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/bikie-jewel-heist-led-to-ballroom-blitz-20080906-geabnh.html

The dead man was shot in the leg in July. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-01/victorian-bikie-shane-bowden-gold-coast-breach-queensland-border/12616446

Other news reports I have read is that the Mongols MC wanted him dead.

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