A 37-year-old man who prompted a massive air and land search after he went missing from a music festival two weeks ago has been found.
Queensland police said on Wednesday that Bradley Smith, who disappeared from the Rabbits Eat Lettuce festival near the Queensland-New South Wales border in April, had been discovered “safe and well” with family in the Bunya Mountains north of Toowoomba.
Inspector Stephen Angus told the Courier Mail that police had received information from the public about Smith’s whereabouts on Tuesday and had located him by Wednesday morning.
Angus told the Courier Mail police were conducting further inquiries into his disappearance, including the circumstances surrounding the extended period in which he made no contact with family, friends or authorities.
Police rescue helicopter, police officers and SES volunteers had been searching for Smith since he disappeared from the festival last month and the festival organisers had posted an appeal on Facebook for information regarding his whereabouts.
The Rabbits Eat Lettuce music festival was held at Cherrabah Resort in Elbow Valley in NSW late in April.
Two people, Dassarn Tarbutt, 24, and Ebony Greening, 22, were found dead in a tent at the festival about 9.30am on the final day. Their cause of death is not yet known but police were treating them as suspected overdoses.
A day after the deaths, the Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, announced health officials would travel to the ACT to examine the second Groovin’ the Moo pill testing trial in the territory.
