Wayne Astill: Read the twisted demands of sex beast prison guard as inmates reveal shocking details of how he abused them

Female prisoners have launched a class action against the state of NSW over sickening abuse by a rogue prison boss at Australia’s largest women’s prison.

Seven female inmates who were raped, abused and assaulted by Wayne Astill during his reign of terror at the Dillwynia Women’s Correctional Centre in Sydney’s western suburbs have filed a civil class action lawsuit.

Astill is now in prison himself, serving 23 years behind bars for his sex crimes against vulnerable women, which took place until his arrest in 2019.

Several details in a statement of conclusion are so graphic that they cannot be detailed in print.

The female victims claim they were ‘intentionally assaulted, assaulted and unlawfully deprived of their liberty by Astill while imprisoned in Dillwynia’.

A female inmate said her abuse by Wayne Astill began shortly after his promotion to a senior position at Dillwyna (above), Australia’s largest women’s prison.

Above you see female prisoners at Silverwater Prison, which is not the prison where Wayne Astill raped and abused female prisoners for several years

Astill was appointed acting head of the prison service at Dillwynia in September 2016. The chief complainant alleges the abuse began shortly after he took over.

In late 2016, Astill asked her to perform sex acts on him in exchange for information about the well-being of a loved one or dependent.

He told her he knew officers and detectives who could find out the details.

A few weeks after she refused, he told her the price for the information had “increased” and began assaulting her, telling her he was now demanding an even more intimate sexual act.

Astill put his hand on the accuser’s shirt and touched her breasts, and tried to put his hand down her pants and then grabbed her genitals on the outside of her prison greens.

Shortly afterward, Astill called her into his office on the pretext that she was going to give a statement about a physical altercation with another inmate, saying he would protect her.

After telling other prison staff that he would make allowances for the prisoner’s absence during the lunch meeting or head count, he then attacked her in the office.

Astill, a former police officer, used the threat of his contacts in the NSW Police Force to intimidate the female prisoners into believing he could block their release on probation

Astill, who is now behind bars for his crimes, abused his power to rape vulnerable female prisoners and then enforce their silence by threatening punishment

The female prisoners have filed a civil lawsuit against the state of NSW over the abuse which the claim alleges was carried out with the knowledge of other prison staff.

Astill pushed her onto a table and raped her, before telling her to ‘make sure she looked normal and not to tell anyone about the attack’.

In early 2017, he attacked her again after luring her into a room known as the “High Needs Office,” saying she was needed for an inter-prison phone call.

Astill then told the inmate to “act normal, not to tell anyone about the abuse and that he could make her life hell.”

In 2018, Astill abused her again after telling her it would only take one bad case before she would not be granted parole, and that no one would believe her if she reported the abuse.

Astill had scared the female prisoner by threatening that he was a former police officer with contacts in the New South Wales Police.

The class action lawsuit, which will appear before Judge Peter Garling on July 4 for pretrial detention, alleges that Astill imprisoned the woman without lawful authority and abused his power.

Compensation is being sought for the ‘loss of dignity, disgrace, humiliation, interference with the bodily integrity and deprivation of liberty’ of the female prisoners by a ‘predatory’ Astill.

The claim further states that Astill’s actions occurred when Justice Department agents knew that Astill was abusing his position with female prisoners and committing violations… and unlawful imprisonment of female prisoners, and failed to take steps to prevent them.

Astill, 67, was jailed in March 2023 after being found guilty by a jury on 34 charges, including aggravated sexual assault and indecent assault.

He will serve a minimum of 15 years and four months behind bars, making him first eligible for parole in December 2037, when he will be 80 years old.

A special commission of inquiry into Astill’s crimes was completed in February.

During the investigation, a former inmate who was assaulted by Astill testified that she was “terrified of repercussions” and threats that kept her from speaking out against him.

She said he once told her: ‘You know I’m high up, I’m going to send you to Wello (Wellington Prison), and you’re going to get hit on the head.’