“My husband is innocent and should not be in jail let alone be trucked all over the state to ensure maximum harm comes to his mental state and mine,” complained the wife of the now-jailed former Labor minister Ian Macdonald.

Anita Gylseth last month sent a blistering email to Premier Gladys Berejiklian, her deputy John Barilaro and a number of NSW cabinet ministers complaining about the location of the jails to which her husband had been sent and the inconvenience it had caused Macdonald’s family.

Former minister Ian Macdonald is taken into custody following a court hearing in May 2017. Credit:Daniel Munoz

She complained about Macdonald previously being in Cooma "which is a nine-hour round trip or if I stayed overnight the cost of accommodation was added to the hefty fuel bill."

She also complained about his recent transfer to Junee prison in the Riverina “as our family unit is already in disarray with the outcome of the ICAC media driven trial”.