He claimed he was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and had been imprisoned for resisting apartheid, though these claims were later revealed to be untrue. He had left South Africa shortly after being declared an "impaired" doctor by the South African Health Professions Council due to a pethidine addiction. He married his third wife Annette in 1981 and migrated to New Zealand with her and their children in 1997. His first wife was also convicted of helping their son cover up his crime. His son from a previous marriage was also convicted of an unrelated murder in 2003. His crime was dramatised in the TV movie Bloodlines, with Bouwer being portrayed by Mark Mitchinson. He spent 16 years in prison for the murder of his third wife Annette. Colin Bouwer (1950-2018) was a South African-born New Zealand former doctor who rose to become Head of Psychiatry at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
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