Ashley Gaddie is charged with murder over Dannielle Finlay-Jones’s death
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The accused killer, Ashley Gaddie, was charged with the alleged murder of her Tinder date after he was taken into custody following a 12-hour standoff with police.
Gaddie, 33, was arrested on top of the cliff at Fletcher’s Lookout in the Blue Mountains on Tuesday night by special police units and later taken to Katoomba Police Station.
Just after noon on Wednesday, NSW police announced they had been charged with the alleged murder of 31-year-old teacher and women’s soccer pioneer Dannielle Finlay-Jones, whom he met on a dating app.
Ms Finlay-Jones was found dead with suspected serious head injuries at a friend’s home in Cranebrook in western Sydney on Sunday afternoon.
Gaddie, from Five Dock, has been denied bail to appear at Penrith Local Court later on Wednesday.
On Tuesday night, response squads invaded an area in the Blue Mountains with specially trained police negotiators engaging with the suspected fugitive who was atop a precarious cliff at Fletcher’s Lookout.
Accused killer Ashley Gaddie charged with murder after a 12-hour standoff with police on Wednesday
Dannielle Finlay-Jones, 31, (pictured) was found dead at her friend’s home in Cranebrook on Sunday, prompting a manhunt for her suspected killer.
Gaddie’s Tinder profile featured a photo of him at Fletcher’s Lookout and other locations in the Blue Mountains.
Seven images show police holding down the suspect who had been climbing the rock on the other side of a security barrier wearing an orange high-visibility jacket.
After a tense standoff, he was hauled up the cliff and arrested just after midnight.
The remote at the Wentworth Falls location, popular with tourists and hikers, is the same spot where Gaddie posted a Tinder selfie to woo women for his online dating profile.
“As part of the investigations, officers from the Blue Mountains Police Area Command attended Fletchers Lookout in Wentworth Falls at about 12:30 p.m. yesterday (Tuesday, December 20, 2022),” the New York Police Department said. South Wales in a statement this morning.
‘Officers located a man on the wrong side of the security barriers and requested the assistance of specialized police resources.
Police negotiators attended and engaged in a conversation with the man before he was arrested around 12am today (Wednesday December 21, 2022).
On Tuesday night, response squads invaded an area in the Blue Mountains with specially trained police negotiators confronting the suspected fugitive who was perched atop a precarious cliff at Fletcher’s Lookout.
Pictured: Specially trained police negotiators engaged Gaddie, who was perched on top of a precarious cliff at Fletcher’s Lookout (pictured taking a selfie in the same spot)
The chase led police to Fletcher’s Lookout in the Blue Mountains at Wentworth Falls.
The 33-year-old man is expected to undergo an assessment before being taken to Katoomba police station, where he will be charged with murder.
While the young master and Gaddie hooked up on a dating app in early December, it is understood they first met at the Marsden Brewhouse in Marsden Park on Saturday night before returning to the Cranebrook home in the early hours of December. Sunday.
His body was found by distraught friends eight hours later.
Police believe Ms Finlay-Jones introduced Gaddie to her friends during the date at the bar.
It was the last time they saw her until her body was discovered when they went to see her around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Ms. Finlay-Jones was revered in her community as a pioneer of women’s soccer and is credited with encouraging dozens of women to take up the sport.
She worked as a support officer with the NSW Department of Education and was Director of Women’s Football.
She was also coordinator for Ramsgate RSL Football Club, in Monterey, south of Sydney, and spoke on behalf of the club in videos on its social media pages promoting women’s sports.
The passionate sportswoman was photographed receiving a trophy for her work as the club’s Director of Women’s Football just months before her untimely death (pictured)
Ms Finlay-Jones (pictured) worked as a support officer with the NSW Department of Education
A friend said that Ms. Finlay-Jones was an “incredible person inside and out.”
“She is appreciated by everyone who knew her and words cannot describe the impact this has happened to,” he told Daily Mail Australia.
“She didn’t deserve this and she will be sorely missed.”
In September, Ms Finlay-Jones recently celebrated 25 years of service to Ramsgate RSL Football Club.
The passionate sportswoman was presented with a trophy for her work as the club’s director of women’s football months before her untimely death.
Ramsgate RSL Football Club posted on Instagram several photos of Ms Finlay-Jones receiving the award and giving a speech on stage.
“We are honored that you guide our players, young and old, in shaping their development and future in our sport,” the post read.
Ms Finlay-Jones also appeared in a video in May 2021 where she discussed the club’s achievements during Women’s Football Week.
“Some 25 years ago when I started at Ramsgate RSL Football Club, as a women’s footballer, we didn’t have women-only teams, so I played with the kids up to the age of 12,” she said. .
Police tape surrounded a house on Borrowdale Way, Cranebrook, on Monday as homicide detectives investigate the death of Dannielle Finlay-Jones.
Ms. Finlay-Jones was a teacher and was active in women’s soccer.
“Fast-forward to today, we’ve featured women-only teams from under six to women of all ages. What an achievement!
‘We continue to make leaps and bounds within the community and we are moving forward to promote female footballers. Go girls.
It is unclear where Gaddie was currently working, but details about his previous employment history obtained by Daily Mail Australia show that he has spent the last three years in a series of drilling jobs.
In the previous seven years, he held a number of different roles, including working as a garbage collector, personal trainer, forklift driver, and auto mechanic.
A long-term resident of the north-west Sydney apartment block where Gaddie lived until more than a month ago, said he had lived there for around six months with a blonde woman and another man.
“I know him by the tattoos,” he said. “I had nothing to do with him, I just watched him come and go.”
It is understood that Ms Finlay-Jones and Gaddie met at the Marsden Brewhouse on Saturday night before going to friends’ house.
Gaddie appears in a T-shirt, shorts and sunglasses on a nature walk on her Tinder profile.