“[He] told me the story in this letter about what had happened and how he had put on 30 or 40 kilograms and then dropped the weight. He had started coaching golf. He realised he had let down a whole lot of people,” Smith said. “In my business you are coaching kids and all of a sudden they lose interest and they just disappear, and he just disappeared.” This was no ordinary vanishing act. Peake had found a sense of belonging at the bikie club, and found trouble, too. He was 21 when he and other Rebels members visited a man who had allegedly threatened their club. “I dropped him,” Peake told The West Australian in 2022.