On 12 October 1962, he married Gwenda Doris Taylor and they had one girl (born 1964) and two boys (born 1966 and 1970, respectively).
They divorced in 1976 and he remarried in 1982 to Raewyn Watt.

He played hockey for Canterbury University, then Victoria University and finally Hockey Manawatu.
He loved the outdoors and enjoyed hunting, fishing and shooting.
He made potential enemies through defending high-profile criminals and his controversial policies as a politician, and once revealed that he kept a pump-action shotgun under his bed for personal protection.
He was interested in race horses and after successfully defending a client's drink driving charge, he purchased a race horse which he called Breathalyser.
On 12 October 1962, he married Gwenda Doris Taylor and they had one girl (born 1964) and two boys (born 1966 and 1970, respectively). They divorced in 1976 and he remarried in 1982 to Raewyn Watt.
He played hockey for Canterbury University, then Victoria University and finally Hockey Manawatu. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed hunting, fishing and shooting. He made potential enemies through defending high-profile criminals and his controversial policies as a politician, and once revealed that he kept a pump-action shotgun under his bed for personal protection. He was interested in race horses and after successfully defending a client's drink driving charge, he purchased a race horse which he called Breathalyser.
Trevor de Cleene