"I'll break your arm I swear to god I'll break it."
Leonard "Len" Murphy was a former prison officer transferred from Woodridge Men's Prison to Wentworth Detention Centre as replacement when the governor and Meg go missing for a few days.
Murphy's reputation is also laid bare by Stanley Dobson who had worked with him previously.
Murphy gets arrested, framed and charged with the rape of Pixie Mason.
Time At Wentworth[]
Violent towards the women, with a hatred of lesbians. He hates lesbians because his wife ran off with another woman. He punches Judy when he finds out that she is a lesbian. He makes his hatred for Ferguson known when he finds out that she is a lesbian, telling her that 'dykes have no right to govern a prison'.
He gives Bobbie Mitchell a start towards an electrical apprenticeship and eventual release.
Visits Lou Kelly after lights out for sex and when he is almost caught by Joan he and Joan come to blows and have a fight in the corridor he threatens to snap Joan's arm if she tells anyone about what happened.
Len is made Acting Governor in (507). Framed at Joan Ferguson 's suggestion and with Myra Desmond 's agreement as Pixie Mason's rapist (510) and sent to prison (511). where Joan goads him telling him he will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the rape of Pixie and the rumoured death of Kevin, he almost grabs Joan to attack her, but is stopped by a guard who tells Joan to leave. Joan does so and Len calls her a bitch, and Joan just smirks.
When Inspector Thorne arrests him in (511) his name is given as Leonard Edwin Murphy, but when Marlene Warren reads out a newspaper article about his trial in (517) it is given as Leonard Arthur Murphy.
Trivia[]
- Fields appeared in the series twice before; first as Uncle Arch, the uncle for Judy's daughter, then as Maurie Parks, a friend of Faye Quinn.