Australian mother arrested alongside her husband after police raids at the Pink Palace spa in Bali was injured during the 2002 terrorist bombings

An Australian mother who was arrested alongside her husband during police raids at the Pink Palace spa in Bali survived the horror terrorist bombings in 2002. 

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 who are originally from Victoria were arrested with eight others after their Pink Palace spa in Bali’s popular Kuta district was raided by police. 

On Friday they were paraded in front of the media at the Bali Police headquarters in Denpasar wearing orange prison shirts and face masks.

The couple have raised several children in Bali and own several businesses including the popular cafe The Corner in Seminyak.

Prostitution is illegal in Indonesia and investigators allege a 17-year-old massage therapist was working at the Pink Palace Spa.

They are looking into prosecuting the owners under Indonesia’s child protection laws. If found guilty, the Australian couple face up to 12 years’ prison.

It has now emerged Ms Le Grand was badly injured in the horrific Bali Bombings of 2002, a series of terrorist attacks that killed 202 people including 88 Australians. 

Ms Le Grand (pictured) told the ABC she had been on the dance floor of Paddy’s Bar in Kuta when a suicide bomber detonated a backpack bomb in the 2002 Bali Bombings

On the 20th anniversary of the Bali Bombings in 2022 she told the ABC she  had been on the dance floor of Paddy’s Bar in Kuta when a suicide bomber detonated a backpack bomb.

‘We were literally blown in different directions. So I was about a metre and a half away from where I was standing, was where I finished up,’ she said. 

‘I ended up with 30 per cent burns mainly the upper part of my body on my back.’

Ms Le Grand, then 22, was evacuated to the Alfred hospital in Melbourne.

‘By that stage, our bodies had expanded far too large with fluid and our organs shutting down. So it was a matter of just patching up what they could, getting skin from areas that they could and then dealing with the process of recovery after that,’ she revealed. 

Ms Le Grand has made Bali her permanent home and raised her children there.

Ms Le Grand was badly injured in the horrific Bali Bombings of 2002, 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 parlour last month

‘Families have had to deal with losing somebody for 20 years and we’ve had to deal with building a life. We were young, we were 22 and that’s what I wanted my kids to always know that,’ she told the publication. 

The couple’s arrests comes after the influencer ex-wife of legendary footy star Ricky Olarenshaw was arrested in Bali last month over her alleged involvement in a spa accused of doubling up as an illegal brothel.

Sarnanitha Olarenshaw, who shares a daughter with the former Essendon premiership star, was arrested in a police raid on the Flame Spa massage parlour in Seminyak in late September.

Two receptionists, a manager and the spa’s director were also arrested.  

Sarnanitha claims her estranged husband was a part-owner of the spa but there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing on behalf of Mr Olarenshaw.