Michael Aloysius Rafferty, who is a Stipendiary Magistrate, drives to work in an
old blue VW Kombi van.
He owns a cat named Rhubarb.
Rafferty is separated from his wife, with whom he had two children (a son and a
daughter).
Rafferty also has an older daughter, Rebecca Browning, who is in her early twenties
— and of whose existence he was unaware until she contacted him after she had grown
up (Rebecca's mother is a woman who Michael Rafferty had known before he met his wife,
and who he had not seen since his marriage).
Rafferty also has a brother, Patrick Rafferty, who is a State Member of Parliament