Dennis Rainbird

Dennis Rainbird
Occupation	Undertaker
Character Type	Minor Role
First Episode	The Killings at Badger's Drift
Status	Dead - Murdered
Location	Badger's Drift
Family	Iris Rainbird - Mother † Ursula Gooding - Aunt Alistair Gooding - Cousin April Gooding - Cousin
Actor	Richard Cant

Dennis Rainbird is a character appearing in the episode The Killings at Badger's Drift. He was murdered by Katherine Lacey with a butcher's knife.

An oily, simpering character, he was his mother's partner in a long term blackmail scheme that victimised many of the villagers. Most of whom they bled dry.

When he gave an ultimatum to Katherine Lacey, however, she arrived at his doorstep with a ten-inch bladed knife and slashed open his throat.

Nine years after investigating Dennis's murder, Tom Barnaby met Dennis's aunt, Ursula Gooding, and his cousins, April and Alistair. Alistair considered his cousin 'creepy' despite dressing like him to keep his mother happy. While Ursula called him her 'dear nephew'.