Stephanie Scott murder: Twin Marcus Stanford haunted over helping brother

The twin brother of Vincent Stanford, who is serving life in prison for the rape and murder of teacher Stephanie Scott, has admitted he’s still haunted by helping his brother cover up the crime.

Marcus Stanford, 28, was freed from jail in September 2016 after serving 15 months for being an accessory after the murder and helping Vincent dispose of evidence.

Days after Vincent murdered the beloved high school teacher in the NSW country town of Leeton, he sent a text message to his identical twin.

“I’m going to send you an envelope. Keep it safe for me,” Vincent wrote.

Inside the envelope was Ms Scott’s engagement ring and her driver’s licence.

Despite his brother being arrested for Ms Scott’s murder before the envelope arrived, Marcus still sold the engagement ring to a pawn shop and burned her driver’s license — after taking a picture of it.

Speaking to Daily Mail Australia, Marcus said he was still “haunted” by the night he agreed to help his brother. The two are no longer on speaking terms.

“I did things for my brother … and for most days I’ve been trying to put it behind me,” Marcus said.

“Now I don’t want anything to do with him. I have no contact with him and I don’t want any.”

Marcus, who moved to a country town in NSW with his dad Steve after the pair were “run out” of South Australia, also apologised for his “misguided loyalty”.

‘The day I got out (of jail) I said I was sorry … I’m still sorry,” he told the publication.

“But does it haunt me? Yeah. Some weeks you’re good, some weeks you think about it. That’s how I can put it basically.”

Marcus returned to his dad’s home in Price, South Australia after being released from prison.

But the father and son recently moved after they were abused by locals.

“When I came out of prison I moved into Price and you’d get the occasional looks and they say things quietly under their breath, but you hear them,” Marcus said.

“I ignored them, but it got to a point where we decided to move away from the town.”

The twins’ dad Steve said they were “still trying to move on”.

“We want to keep a low profile, just get on with things, you know?” Steve said.

“We don’t go to the pub, we don’t go anywhere. It’s hard but that’s the way it is.”

Steve, who has bad health and is cared for by Marcus, said he was never going to speak to Vincent again.

“I don’t want to call him, I don’t want to sit down with him, I don’t want anything to do with him,” Steve said.

“I’ve never had a bloody parking ticket. I don’t know why he did it, I never asked why he did it, and to be honest, I don’t want to know.

“He didn’t get it from my genes, and he didn’t get it from his mother’s genes.”

Stephanie, 26, was days away from getting married when she was raped and murdered by Vincent Stanford in April 2015.

Stanford was a cleaner at Leeton High School, and Ms Scott had been working on Easter Sunday to prepare lessons for a fill-in teacher ahead of her honeymoon.

Stanford raped and murdered the teacher inside a classroom before driving her body to bushland and hiding it.

He was sentenced to life in prison in October 2016.

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