An Australian mother who was arrested along with her husband during police raids at the Pink Palace spa in Bali survived the horrific 2002 terrorist bombings.
Lynley Le Grand, 44, and her husband Michael Jerome Le Grand, 50, were arrested earlier this week for allegedly operating a spa that offered prostitution services.
The couple, originally from Victoria, were arrested along with eight others after police raided their Pink Palace spa in Bali’s popular Kuta district.
They paraded before the media at Bali Police headquarters in Denpasar on Friday wearing orange prison T-shirts and face masks.
The couple have raised several children in Bali and own several businesses, including popular cafe The Corner in Seminyak.
Prostitution is illegal in Indonesia and investigators allege a 17-year-old masseuse worked at the Pink Palace Spa.
They are considering prosecuting the owners under Indonesian child protection laws. If convicted, the Australian couple faces up to 12 years in prison.
It has now emerged that Le Grand was seriously injured in the horrific 2002 Bali attacks, a series of terrorist attacks that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.
Lynley Le Grand, 44, and her husband Michael Jerome Le Grand, 50, were arrested earlier this week for allegedly operating a spa offering prostitution services in Kuta, Bali.
Ms Le Grand (pictured) told the ABC she had been on the dance floor at Paddy’s Bar in Kuta when a suicide bomber detonated a backpack bomb in the 2002 Bali attacks.
On the 20th anniversary of the Bali attacks in 2022, he told the alphabet she was on the dance floor at Paddy’s Bar in Kuta when a suicide bomber detonated a backpack bomb.
“We were literally thrown in different directions. So I was about five feet from where I was standing, that’s where I ended up,’ she said.
“I ended up with 30 percent burns, mostly on my upper body, on my back.”
Le Grand, then 22, was evacuated to Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital.
‘At that stage, our bodies had expanded too much with fluid and our organs had shut down. “So it was a matter of just fixing what they could, getting skin from the areas they could and then dealing with the recovery process after that,” he revealed.
Mrs Le Grand has made Bali her permanent home and raised her children there.
Ms Le Grand was seriously injured in the horrific 2002 Bali bombings, a series of terrorist attacks that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians (pictured is the aftermath in Kuta).
Sarnanitha Olarenshaw (pictured), who shares a daughter with former Essendon premiership star Ricky Olarenshaw, was arrested in a police raid on a separate massage parlor last month.
‘Families have had to deal with the loss of someone for 20 years and we have had to deal with building a life. “We were young, we were 22 years old and that’s what I wanted my children to always know,” she told the publication.
The couple’s arrests come after the influencer ex-wife of legendary soccer star Ricky Olarenshaw was arrested in Bali last month for her alleged involvement in a spa accused of operating as an illegal brothel.
Sarnanitha Olarenshaw, who shares a daughter with the former Essendon premiership star, was arrested in a police raid at the Flame Spa massage parlor in Seminyak at the end of September.
Two receptionists, a manager and the spa director were also arrested.
Sarnanitha claims her ex-husband was a co-owner of the spa, but there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Mr Olarenshaw.
