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Samantha Lock

Rapist allowed to work in prison despite allegations

Wayne Astill was jailed for assaulting inmates at the Dillwynia correctional centre in NSW. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

The governor of a women's prison where senior correctional officer Wayne Astill raped and assaulted nine inmates says she simply "didn't know what to do" with him. 

Dillwynia prison governor Shari Martin said she lodged at least two intelligence reports on Astill and kept the documentation in a locked safe in her office, but did not tell her superior of the sexual assault allegations.

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