The heartbroken sister of an Australian real estate agent who mysteriously died in Bali has revealed her brother made three late-night phone calls to a friend just hours before he was found dead.
Charlie John Bradley, 28, was found unresponsive on the road at 3:40am outside a health clinic in north Kuta, in the south of Bali, three-and-a-half hours after leaving Finns Beach Club on Sunday morning.
His distraught sister Beth Bradley has been desperately searching for answers about what happened to him in the gap between midnight, when he left the club, and around 3.40am, when he was found dead.
Charlie John Bradley (pictured, left) was found outside a health clinic in the early hours of Sunday morning. His sister, Beth (right), has asked those who saw him in his final moments to come forward to help their family find out what happened to him
‘All we know at this stage is that Charlie was at Finn’s Beach Club,’ she told media.
‘It sounds as if he arrived around 2:00 pm and spent the day there with the friend that he was travelling with and a group of people that they had met.
‘He left the venue at around 12:10am at the front exit. He walked shortly down the street, one of the girls that they had been with in the group had helped Charlie into a taxi,’ she explained.
‘She heard the taxi driver say that he knew where the villa was that he was staying, 15 minutes away from Finns.
‘All we know at that point is that Charlie’s friend that was in the villa had three missed calls from Charlie an hour later at around 1:30am.
‘From there, all we know is that Charlie was then found in the middle of the street, on the ground.’
What happened in the hours after Charlie was put in a taxi and made three calls to a friend before his mysterious death will be the key to cracking the case.
Ms Bradley told Daily Mail Australia she suspects her brother may have been a victim of methanol poisoning – after being assured by friends no drugs were taken.
‘Charlie doesn’t drink beer – he sticks to spirits,’ she said.
‘There’s a lot of methanol poisoning in Bali. It seems that a lot of the bars pump their alcohol with methanol themselves to save them money in terms of producing it.
‘The body can’t hack that much, which can end up with you having hallucinations, not being able to walk, shaking and multiple other symptoms.’
Ms Bradley said she had ‘wracked her brain a million times over’ in a search for answers and that this was the most plausible.
‘Every time I’ve Googled people dying in Bali, it seems to be a very similar situation, and it seems to be happening more as of late,’ she said.
Mr Bradley had spent the hours before his death at popular nightlife spot, Finn’s Beach Club (pictured, North Kuta police examining the location outside the Bhaktivedanta Clinic where Mr Bradley was found)
Ms Bradley stressed that it was just a theory at this stage as the family face an agonising wait to repatriate his body for a post-mortem examination in Australia.
But she said it might explain the chilling phone call she received on Monday from a doctor who treated her brother at Siloam Hospital in Kuta.
‘The doctor told me that a man had brought Charlie into the hospital and that he showed him a video of Charlie standing, looking confused and shouting,’ she said.
‘He then fell to the ground and was rolling around. He stood up, fell again and banged his head on the floor – five times. By the time he received Charlie at the hospital, Charlie had passed away.’
Unfortunately, the doctor did not get the man’s name or ask for a copy of the video.
Ms Bradley has made a desperate plea for that individual to come forward to spare their family the anguish of not knowing what happened in his final moments.
The ‘mystery man’ accords with the latest update from Bali Police, whose spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia that they had interviewed two witnesses about the baffling death.
A doctor at Siloam Hospital told Mr Bradley’s sister an unknown man showed him a video of him behaving erratically before his death (pictured, police officers visiting Siloam Hospital where Mr Bradley was taken)
The first is a local woman who came across Mr Bradley while driving past on a motorbike and the second is a taxi driver called Dani Siswanto who drove him to hospital.
‘Mr Siswanto said that the first time he saw Mr Bradley, there was another foreigner who also helped to take the victim into the taxi and take him to Siloam Hospital,’ Bali police spokesperson Stefanus Setianto said.
‘Dani said that the foreigner told him that the he didn’t know Mr Bradley. When police arrived at hospital, the foreigner was no longer there.’
Mr Setianto also revealed that Mr Bradley was seen stumbling and falling in the street outside Da Maria Restaurant, which is less than a five minute walk from where he was found outside the clinic.
‘Witnesses said that the victim was staggering and fell down several times along the street,’ he said.
He added: ‘There were some abrasions (scratch wounds) in his body, allegedly because he fall down on the street.’
Mr Bradley, a talented amateur boxer, had flown from Sydney last Thursday to attend a music festival on the popular holiday island with a friend.
The friend left the beach club before him at around 10pm.
‘Charlie left Finns at 12:10am,’ Ms Bradley explained.
‘I’ve spoken to the girl who got him into the taxi. She confirmed that Charlie recited the address to the taxi driver and he said he knew were that was.’
The family know that he tried to call his friend three times around 1.30am but they have scant few details about his movements after leaving the club.
‘Did Charlie make it home?,’ asked Ms Bradley.
‘Did he get into the villa and then go back out? Did he even make it back there? We have no idea.
‘We’re assuming by the fact that he called his friend he made it back and was banging on the door trying to get in but it’s just so hard to know.’
Although Ms Bradley acknowledges she is dealing with a ‘massive language barrier’, she feels cruelly let down by the Indonesian authorities.
‘To be honest, with the actions that have been taken, I’ve really lost faith in their system,’ she said.
‘If this had happened in any other country there wouldn’t be this many gaps.
‘The guy that brought him in – they would have got his name and found out more details behind it all.’
Indonesian Police say they have launched an investigation into the real estate agent’s death and have so far spoken to two witnesses (pictured, Mr Bradley)
She added: ‘Nobody’s even identified his body yet – we don’t know how severe his wounds are.’
Her brother worked for real estate firms like Belle and McGrath and specialised in the Newcastle market.
He posted a photo of himself posing in front of the Harbour Bridge with the caption: ‘Beats Coventry I reckon’.
The 28-year-old’s family, who live in Adelaide, are working with UK authorities to bring his body back to Australia.
A GoFundMe page, set up by a friend of Mr Bradley’s parents Angela and Keith to raise funds to bring his body back to Australia, has has so far raised almost $45,000.
Funds will also ensure Ms Bradley brother Jack, his fiancee and their baby over from the UK to be with the family to lay Charlie to rest at his funeral.
‘He was a cherished son, brother, uncle, grandson, nephew, boyfriend, colleague and mate to so many. He had the biggest heart and personality and everyone who had the fortune of meeting him loved him,’ the fundraiser reads.
‘His contagious smile, good looks and charm were only a few of his many qualities and he will be terribly missed by so many.
‘Angela and Keith, we are all so devastated for you and we know that there is nothing we can say that will make this unimaginable heartache better but everybody that knows you, would love to do something for you.
‘With this GoFundMe we can all ease the financial pressure and help to bring your beautiful Charlie back home from Bali.’
Adelaide Titans Football Club, who Mr Bradley used to play for, posted a moving tribute to the ‘loveable geezer that has been taken way too early’.
‘His infectious smile and loveable character made an immediate impact throughout the entire club and he kept in close contact with many at the club over the better part of a decade.’
Mr Bradley, a UK citizen, migrated from Coventry to Sydney back in 2013 (pictured, a photo Mr Bradley posted in front of the Harbour Bridge with the caption: ‘Beats Coventry I reckon’)