Their inability to defend themselves against their bullies means that shame, guilt, anger, hate and the need for revenge builds inside them. He also had several different firearms: a Beretta 9 mm semi-automatic pistol; an M1 carbine semi-automatic assault rifle; and a Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle loaded with armour-piercing bullets. The Hungerford massacre occurred in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, on August 19, 1987. Ryans next victim was Francis Butler, a 26-year-old accounts clerk, out walking his dog in the Hungerford Memorial Gardens. Former mummy blogger Clemmie Hooper is facing a midwifery misconduct hearing - three years after she confessed to trolling other influencers on a gossip forum. "I just thought: 'They dont want outsiders. He took the firearms, packed the pockets of his flak jacket with ammunition and marched off down the road. Stop it, you stupid bugger!. Shotguns had to be registered and were required to be kept in secure storage. Trevor can't move out to his own place. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited the village on Thursday, August 20, 1987, the day after the shooting, to pay her condolences. Next to him, in the passenger seat, Ivor Jackson was also shot in his arm, chest and head. "And I hear the arguments of the gun lobby, who want to preserve the right to bear arms, and I think: 'You should come here and see what guns did to Hungerford. "I think he used to do it quite often, but then with him he used to say lots of things. "We got a letter from the Queen," Mr Jackson adds. Witnesses report that at this point, Ryan seemed disgusted with the rifle and threw it onto the ground. A few moths before the massacre, Ryan joined the Tunnel Rifle and Pistol Club, in Wiltshire. If it comes up, he leaves the room or goes to sit in the greenhouse. "After what happened, lots of people split up," says Ivor Jackson. "Members of the public were in the station with the police. There was also a made-up girlfriend - a delusion which went far enough for Mrs Ryan to invite people to the wedding. In 1987, Michael Ryan committed a killing spree that left sixteen dead and sixteen injured. I mean, there's no legitimate reason anyone would need to have a Kalashnikov - but it was legal. The Hungerford Massacre on August 19, 1987, saw 16 people killed in a. He says he was helped by a discovery made at the post-mortem examination - that his father had developed lung cancer. About half an hour later, Mrs Roland-Clarke called him to the telephone. 7 - Dorothy Ryan Sandra Hill, who'd moved away from the town, was visiting former school friends. He had what appeared to be a normal upbringing, although he was perhaps overindulged by his mother. In his right hand, tied to his wrist with a bootlace, was his Beretta pistol. Armed with an automatic rifle, a pistol and at least one. She shouted at him, saying, Is that you making that noise? An investigation after the shootings found both Dorothy and Michael Ryan had been overdrawn on their bank accounts - in Dorothy's case largely because she bought her only child a new car every two years. It wasnt long before investigators discovered, via ballistics analysis, that her death was connected to those that happened subsequently in Hungerford that afternoon. I've never run so fast. He found low-paid work as a caretaker at a girls school. The local police station had only two working phone lines that day and the police helicopter was being repaired, delaying its deployment. When PC Wainwright, wearing his off-duty clothes of shorts and a Fred Perry polo shirt, was called into his superior's office, he thought he was going to be told to put his uniform on. What she found was houses on fire, people lying dead in their gardens and smashed cars lining the street. As they drove down Priory Road, Ryan shot at their car and Playle died from a single bullet wound to the neck from the Beretta. He chased me all the way. As he drove the three-and-a-half miles a news report came on the radio about a suspected armed robbery at a petrol station in Froxfield. "Dorothy came past me, and she looked into the car and I remember it as clear as day. "He used to say he could follow anyone and they wouldnt notice," said the friend. He is still haunted, he says, by the photograph of his father dead in his car. His face, she says, was expressionless. Classmates remember he was quiet, seemed shy, "kept himself to himself" and was keen on the military. He put some petrol in his car and some in a canister. Seeing two of his neighbours, Roland and Sheila Mason, in their back garden, he shot Roland six times and Sheila once, in the head. Many were attended by people who had never known the deceased in life, but wished to show support for their families and the bereaved Hungerford community in general. Ryan looked at her with extremely vacant eyes and a strange grin, before moving off eastwards along a footpath leading to Hungerford Common. At about 02:00 she looked out of the window and saw the bodies from South View being collected and driven away. The speed with which he carried out his agenda indicates an element of forethought. They lived a few doors from each other and their families were friends. With Craig Jackson, Donal MacIntyre, Sean Preston, Michael Ryan. On the sunny afternoon of August 19th, 1987, it was market day in Hungerford and Ryan went to Saverneck forest - a place he would often go to shoot his gun and sneak up on unsuspecting. "You know, it's funny. I need to get better and I will walk again. document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) Two more vehicles driving along the road were shot at. Mr Whiting did not understand. This documentary examines Ryan's childhood, his acquisition of guns, and the killings. I later realised that was because the bullets were still in her. "Ivor has very limited mobility, and his lungs are damaged from the bullet. Find professional Hungerford Michael Ryan videos and stock footage available for license in film, television, advertising and corporate uses. Fifteen vehicles were taken away for forensic examination. It was the same school he had attended more than a decade before. It was following Alfred's death in 1985 that Mrs Ryan began appearing at work with visible bruises, Mrs Jackson says. They flew the police helicopter past the window, but could not see in to the classroom. This powerful mix of emotions is often later expressed in an inappropriately violent response. He needed numerous operations and still suffers, both physically and mentally. Prof Jackson says violence towards his mother would fit in with Ryan's psychological profile as a narcissist who could not cope with being disobeyed, disagreed with or challenged. But we've stuck by each other.". At age 11, he moved from the local primary school opposite his home, to the John OGaunt Secondary School, where he underachieved academically and would often play truant. Not able to stand by and idly watch people suffer, he had repeatedly risked his life to help a number of victims, giving first aid where he could and solace to those having lost loved ones. In a further twist of fate, the local police helicopter was in for repair but police mechanics eventually made it ready for flight and it was deployed at around the time Ryan shot his mother. On 19 August 1987, gunman Michael Ryan went on the rampage in the small town of Hungerford. She was wounded but managed to call her husband, Ivor Jackson, who worked close by. And strictly speaking, it was not his responsibility; Froxfield, though just outside Hungerford, was in Wiltshire rather than Berkshire and beyond the jurisdiction of Thames Valley Police. On 19 August 1987, the 27-year-old loner was in licensed possession of two shotguns, three pistols and two semi-automatic rifles. He arrived back in South View in time to set fire to his home, shoot his dog, chase another dog, and take three guns from his car before killing Mr and Mrs Mason at 12:47. 14 - Myrtle Gibbs Ryan, who was heavily armed, forced 33-year-old Susan Godfrey, who was on a picnic with her children, to put them in her car and Luckily she hadn't been injured. Mrs Pascoe stemmed the bleeding and stayed with the girl until an ambulance arrived. Large crowds attended the funerals of Ryan's victims, Trevor Jackson had first heard of the shootings when a colleague asked: "What's happened to your parents?". Ryan was holding one of his most prized possessions - a Chinese copy of a Kalashnikov semi-automatic rifle. I had been the one to carry out the checks for Ryans firearms licence.". Its inhabitants refer to the shooting as "The Tragedy", almost as if it were a natural disaster. Dorothy Ryan tried to reason with her son. At 17:25, Ryan threw a semi-automatic rifle from the classroom window. At the time, the idea crucified me. We were good friends," he says. The Hungerford Report confirmed that Ryans weapons had been legally licenced. I probably did three or four of these checks a week. Police surrounded the school building and Brightwell worked to establish communication with Ryan and ultimately to persuade him to surrender. Their younger son Trevor, who had been 18 in 1987, is being treated for PTSD while his older brother Peter, who was in the same year as Ryan at school, refuses to talk about that day. Police during the investigation in August 1987, Killer Michael Robert Ryan murdered several people while they were driving, The remains of Michael Ryan's house in South View, after he set fire to it. In addition to this, the local telephone exchange could not handle the amount of 999 calls that were being made, as Ryan wreaked havoc across the suburbs and people desperately tried phoning for help. This seemed to fit the profile of Michael Ryan. After all, he was in the area and knew Mrs Dean. It was during this time that he lost his caretaker job. "I turned to move away and he shot me. Mrs Jackson can remember Mrs Ryan telling her about a mysterious "friend" Michael had made. Both died instantly. The young policeman wondered whether he should see if he could do anything to help. It also transpired that there were several unfortunate incidents encumbering the response by the police and other emergency services to the events on 19 August 1987. "He certainly had no 'manifesto' or message to the world.". Then the radio announced the names of some of the people whod been shot, but didn't say if they were dead or alive. It seemed that whilst he was in the midst of a murderous rampage, he still felt the need to protect children. It's testament to her own strength of mind that she did. Both recreational and agricultural shooting were normal occurrences in the area. They'll do what we did. But, he reasoned, it was his day off. "It's difficult to ascertain exactly how much he planned it, but I think it was well in advance and right down to minor details," says Dr Yardley. When he was 13 his mother bought him an air rifle. It was market day in Hungerford, a balmy Wednesday, 19 August 1987. The Jacksons remember him as being a model-railway enthusiast and "a lovely man who would help you with anything". Ryan fired at them and Victor died instantly, whilst Myrtle died later in hospital. "I think he fully intended to fake his own death at home and disappear at that point," says Prof Jackson. A 27-year-old unemployed local labourer, Michael Robert Ryan, armed with several weapons including an AK-47 rifle and a Beretta pistol, shot and killed sixteen people including his mother, and wounded fifteen others, then fatally shot himself. He continually asked about his mother and how she was. "What he did was the ultimate taking back of control. Ryan headed across the playing fields, still shooting. 2 - Sheila Mason Plot summary Add synopsis Genres Documentary I saw Robert Clements hed been walking the dog with his dad, Ken, and just witnessed him shot dead in South View. Gunman Michael Ryan shocked the country with his rampage around the quiet Berkshire town. It was being chased up the road by Michael Ryan. Changing his mind, he retrieved it and carried on walking, away from town. Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher interrupted her Cornish holiday to visit Hungerford. I thought he'd come in and kill them.". What happened to the Hatton Garden burglars? "When you work for the ambulance service, you do your best to help people," Mr Whiting says. The phone lines were inundated with people trying to call police - journalists were taking up many of the lines - and the police radio system, which only had three channels, was similarly overloaded. Ryan, an unemployed handyman, also injured 15 people in the horrific attack before turning the gun on himself. "Writing the letter did me good, but I don't think it would have helped the people of Dunblane.". He told his wife to stay indoors with the little girl she was babysitting and headed off to Hungerford town centre, first to a newsagent to buy some maps and then to the police station. "He was going to set fire to his mother's house and drive away, leaving the police to believe he'd died in the fire.". But it appears she never contradicted him in public. Critics said the . 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