Ian Packer

Ian Packer is a guest character in 2019 who first appeared on June 11, 2019. He is involved in the 16 year long mystery surrounding the death of Dee Bliss.

2009
On the Queen's Birthday in 2019, Ian met Dee Bliss at the Salamanca Markets in Tasmania, where she was attending the funeral of her sister Cecile. Dee was under the name Karen and hiding from someone. Karen also reveals that her parents died a few years earlier and that in 2003 she was in a marriage that ended abruptly. After Ian gets too involved in Karen's life, she allegedly re-married and move to South Africa and cut off all contact with him.

2019
When Sonya Rebecchi visits Andrea Somers in the psychiatric hospita;, she reveals that she met Ian that same weekend and he believed she was Karen. Sonya later told Shane Rebecchi this information before she died.

A few months later, Andrea returns to Erinsborough to help Toadie find closure over Dee to make amends for her actions. With the help of Mark Brennan, they track down Ian to Hepburn Springs and make the journey to see him where he tells them everything he knows about Karen, including the fact that she is no longer in Australia.

Toadie decides to pursue this matter futher, hoping to track down Dee and find out why she never came looking for Toadie and why she let him believe she was dead for 16 years. That night, Ian visits Andrea in her apartment where he reveals how they came up witht he plan to "fudge one detail" about Dee's current whereabouts and that they both know where she is. Ian gives Andrea a photo of himself with a woman who looks like Andrea, presumably Dee/Karen, and another man who was sitting on a park bench with a woman in 2017 who looked like Dee.

2019

 * Episode 8122 - 11 June 2019