"Connors!"
Ernest Craven was the evil former governor of corrupt high security prison Blackmoor and Craven is the reason its known as "The Blackhole".
Craven is shown to be highly racist towards the ethnic inmates and to social worker Pamela Madigan who came to Blackmoor after Connors' transfer to the prison, she requested to see Rita and Craven denied the request telling her to go back to Wentworth.
Craven stabbed and killed by Lori after she suffers at his hands and when he dies the entire country hears from City Probe a news program on just how corrupt and vile his time as Governor at Blackmoor was.
Blackmoor's Destruction[]
Craven welcomes Rita in the pound
Craven is first seen first "welcoming" Rita to Blackmoor when she is taken to the pound after one of the officers who inducted her puts her on a charge. The officer speaks with Craven and says that Rita could be trouble and craven says that they will keep an eye on it. Craven talks with Brumby and tells her that she is getting a new cell mate and that she is from Wentworth.
Craven warns her not to cause trouble, or die fighting at Blackmoor. He later refuses to speak with Pamela Madigan and wants her girls transferred away from Blackmoor, he agrees. He watches over a fight between prisoners and Rita, but slots Rita when she wins. Transferred to Wentworth after Rita Connors had burnt down Blackmoor in a riot.
Time At Wentworth[]
Craven arrives at Wentworth after Blackmoor is in ruins after Rita's riot, and he and Joan make plans for one to receive the governorship of Wentworth, while Joan makes governor, Craven continues his reign of terror.
Craven would use racist taunts toward Sarah West and Pamela Madigan calling both of them the "N word" and this would influence Rodney Adams in which got him a slap from Joan.
His vow to kill Rita was almost taken through with but failed. At the same time he was blackmailing Lorelei Wilkinson to lag on the prisoners so he could discover what their plans were.
Rita asked Lorelei to hide the knife she attempted to kill him with but she failed to when Craven's last threat was made to blackmail her because of the alarm they used to find out when Craven was attacking Rita. She stabbed him and he staggered through the corridors until dying in front of the prisoners, Joan Ferguson and Meg Morris but he still made one more lunge for Rita.
During the City Probe program that had interviewed Meg Morris, Joyce Pringle and a former guard Terry Walters of Blackmoor it was revealed just how corrupt Craven was, the whole country then knew he refused to clean up the prison from drugs, wouldn't pass reforms and he would place bets on fights, have inmates killed and threatened the careers of those who dared to speak out, Walters revealed to the country that Craven was the one who ordered Bongo Connors to be shot.
Trivia[]
- Meagher had previously appeared in the series as Geoff Butler and Kurt Renner.
- Craven told Marty Jackson that he was in uniform when the hangman had a job and mentioned how those hanged would lie as they went through the trapdoor. It is possible Craven was present at the last hanging in Australia in 1967.