Ryan was holding one of his most prized possessions - a Chinese copy of a Kalashnikov semi-automatic rifle. Ryan was lying slumped in the corner, near a window, apparently dead.The rest of the unit entered the room and checked that he was not wired with explosives as a booby trap. But she wasn't. 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. "I just thought she was delirious from blood loss.". She said: 'Oh no Ivor, not you.'". Plot summary Add synopsis Genres Documentary Ryan then shot at an ambulance, shattering its windscreen, as it was trying to reach some of the victims in a narrow lane. Ms Haslett reversed rapidly and she and her partner escaped with only minor injuries. Dean reported later that when she looked Ryan in the face, it seemed as if he was not even aware of her and was looking right through her. Everyone remembers the silence. But this did actually ring true. Despite his elaborate fantasies, however, Ryan was not mentally ill. Medical reports show he had no history of mental illness - in fact, his doctor had countersigned Ryan's gun applications. It was calculated that during the most intense period of Ryans rampage, he had killed an average of one person per minute. I could see her hip bone.". 11 - Eric Vardy I saw Robert Clements hed been walking the dog with his dad, Ken, and just witnessed him shot dead in South View. Hungerford is a big shooting area, farmers and gun clubs and that sort of thing. It transpired that they were the parents of the police officer who had run all the checks on Ryan when he had applied for a modified licence, to own more powerful firearms. The couple have been married for 60 years and celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary in January. Here he found Susan Godfrey, 33, an attractive, auburn-haired mother, with her children, Hannah, 4, and James, 2. Ryan immediately turned to Alan Lepetit, a coalman who had helped install the Chubb steel cabinet for Ryans firearm collection. She scrambled into her house, where she collapsed and her mother immediately called an ambulance. "I just started to run. At about 02:00 she looked out of the window and saw the bodies from South View being collected and driven away. He claimed he had been taken under the wing of a retired colonel who was going to buy him a house and a Ferrari. But, he reasoned, it was his day off. The elder Mr and Mrs Wainwright had been about 300 yards from their son's house when Douglas Wainwright was shot in the head and Kathleen Wainwright in the chest and the hand. Ryan shot Lepetit twice in the arm and once in the back as he fled. Mrs Godfrey was killed at about 12:30 BST and Mrs Dean was shot at just five minutes later at the petrol station. Dr Yardley thinks he planned them well in advance. Her children, who were 85 yards away from where her body was found, were later reunited with their father. Another, Eric Vardy, was killed. A former school friend remembers a teenage Ryan boasting of spying on and stalking people there. Thirty years since the Hungerford tragedy. 10 - Douglas Wainwright Then he shot at Mrs Dean and sped back to South View where he set fire to his home and shot dead his dog, Blackie. The names of the 16 people who were killed are listed on a stone set into the wall of the town's war memorial garden, with no mention of how they died. 6 - George White "He was trapped and didn't have a viable way out of his situation.". S02:E05 - Thomas Watt Hamilton: Dunblane Massacre. Your dad's been shot. Trevor Wainwright, Hungerfords usual bobby on the beat, was on a day off. 14 - Myrtle Gibbs Ryan was 25 when his father died of cancer in 1985. When Ryan was old enough, he purchased a shotgun and began to collect other weapons, which he proudly displayed in a glass cabinet in his bedroom. Mayor Tarry claimed it to be the day on which life in the town could begin once more. "It hasn't got any easier. After killing his mother, Ryan walked across the school playing field, firing randomly. Bob Barclay, a local builder and nearby resident, risking his own life, bravely ran out and dragged Storms from his car, managing to half crouch and half run with Storms into the safety of his garden. Ryan's mother Dorothy was shot not far from her home in South View as she pleaded with her son to stop the shooting. Then he realised the policemans wounds had not been caused by a shotgun but by a semi-automatic rifle. George sped off on his motorcycle. A single man, unemployed and living with his mother, with no evidence of a romantic or sexual relationship in his life, he perhaps had precious little to be happy about. It started with an assumed attempted sexual assault, but Ryan went on to kill many close acquaintances in his hometown. "Theres no two ways about it. He would insist on lying down on the back seat of the car if we ever went out, so he couldn't be seen. Helicopters were hovering over Hungerford. As the brothers were cleaning up, a reporter burst in. Mrs Jackson had known Ryan all of his life. They were armed with .38 Smith and Wessons, which were no match for Ryans arsenal.Four and three quarter hours after the police had first been informed of Ryan, he was finally spotted at one of the schools third floor classroom windows at 5.26 pm. "I put two and two together and assumed that the armed robbers from Froxfield had been cornered in Hungerford," he said. Whilst people did recognise that she was a victim, Canon John Reynolds, who conducted the service, selected not to mention her son and only made a brief reference to the Hungerford massacre. I thought he'd come in and kill them.". A Thames Valley Police report to the Home Office found that - given the limitations imposed by the remote location and the difficulties in radio and telephone communication - the force's response "went well". The Hungerford Massacre on August 19, 1987, saw 16 people killed in a. When PC Wainwright heard it was Michael Ryan from South View, he couldn't put a face to the name. His wife and children had been in the car but were unhurt. The Victims - 19 August 1987: Susan Godfrey, 35 shot and died, Kakoub Dean shot at (missed, then firearm malfunctioned), Police Constable Roger Brereton shot and died, Hazel Haslett windscreen shot, injured by glass and survived, Kathleen Wainwright, 62 shot and survived, Man from 62 Priory Road shot and survived, Woman from 71 Priory Road shot and survived. The Hungerford Report led to the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988, which banned the ownership of semi-automatic centre-fire rifles and restricted the use of shotguns with a magazine capacity of more than two rounds. The teenager was still standing up when Mrs Pascoe arrived to help her. This documentary examines Ryan's childhood, his acquisition of guns, and the killings. "If he did have a sexual crime in mind, then that would have been about control too.". When, in March 1996 Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 schoolchildren and their teacher in the Stirling town of Dunblane, Trevor Wainwright decided to write to the Scottish police. Changing his mind, he retrieved it and carried on walking, away from town. It seemed that whilst he was in the midst of a murderous rampage, he still felt the need to protect children. She managed to drag herself into her house and survived. The fact was that they were prevented from entering the danger zone, for fear of being shot themselves. Prof Jackson also considers Ryan was heavily influenced by a mass shooting occurring 10 days earlier in Melbourne, Australia, that was reported on television in the UK. Preparing to leave for her grandmothers 95th birthday, Godfrey was packing away the picnic when a grim looking Ryan approached, dressed all in black and pointing a 9mm Beretta pistol at her. As they drove up Tarrants Hill, their windscreen was shattered by a spray of bullets and Vardy was hit twice, under the chin and in the torso. Whenever they asked me where it all happened I'd say it was down the A4. They warned ground units to set up a roadblock around South View, to stop any drivers entering the area, although they had no idea what Ryan would do next. With blood running down his face, he could only watch through half-closed eyes as Dorothy Ryan, Michaels mother, arrived home from the Wednesday market. "We cope by taking every day as it comes. There was also a made-up girlfriend - a delusion which went far enough for Mrs Ryan to invite people to the wedding. Abdul Rahman Khan, was shot in his garden; George White, was shot in South View while driving Ivor Jackson home from work. Dorothy Ryan, Michaels mother, was a lunchtime supervisor at the primary school where Mrs Jackson worked. He then shot her in the back with a Beretta pistol. He died instantly from chest wounds. Mildenhall survived the shooting.Kenneth Clements was walking along the footpath with his family, towards South View, when Ryan appeared and shot him once, killing him instantly. I should have said but I didnt want to worry anyone. "If he had the choice - to die from a horrible disease like that, or be shot, I know he'd choose the bullet. They'll do what we did. Their inability to defend themselves against their bullies means that shame, guilt, anger, hate and the need for revenge builds inside them. "I was desperate to get into the house. He took it seriously.". Watched by neighbours, he went into the house and muffled shots were heard. But it appears she never contradicted him in public. 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. Seventy-eight bullet holes were found. She had started the day wearing yellow trousers, borrowed from her sister. "I don't think he fully intended to commit a killing spree that day. Another witness reported that Ryan warned several children to get off the street and go inside. I thought I was safe.". The letter, complete with golden tassel, is still in its recorded delivery envelope and is kept in a basket in the Jacksons' kitchen. This had been Ryans first victim. About half an hour later, Mrs Roland-Clarke called him to the telephone. Ryan picked up the picnic groundsheet and ordered Susan to walk with him into the woods. It seemed that the guns gave Ryan the feeling of power and control that he had always lacked. He took no heed of her pleas and pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I believe Ryan had probably been fantasising about it on a low level, but the events that day - and his personality type - led to it. 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. Write by: . He found low-paid work as a caretaker at a girls school. Paying no attention to the police or the press, Ryan seemed oblivious to anything other than his hell-bent mission to kill everyone in his path. In a small village 60 miles west of London, at 12:30 in the afternoon, 27-year-old Michael Ryan shoots a mother dead. 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. S02:E03 - Michael Ryan - the Hungerford Massacre. People were said to have run into the streets chanting, The bastards dead, the bastards dead, whilst children cycled around on their bikes, yelling Good riddance, and people in pubs toasted his death. Amongst others also later commended for their bravery were ambulance-women Hazel Haslett and Linda Bright, who had been shot at by Ryan but who had continued working selflessly late into the night to help other victims.It was reported in the tabloid newspapers that following the public announcement of Ryans death, the people of Hungerford reacted with relieved delight. Dr Yardley believes Ryan was attempting to wrest some sort of control from society. As he approached a playground near Bulpit Lane he shot and killed dog walker Francis Butler. She was inordinately lucky not to have been shot by him. "He used to wear camouflage gear, that sort of thing. Harries later received the Queens Commendation for Brave Conduct. Michael Ryan : The Hungerford Massacre. He sprayed their car with 11 bullets, Ivor Jackson was shot three times in the chest and once in the head and White was shot too, dying as their car smashed into the police car Ryan had shot at earlier. "I turned to move away and he shot me. Chief Inspector Lambert had sent Sergeant Paul Brightwell and his team of eight officers from the Tactical Firearms Unit to investigate the school, unaware that this was indeed the exact location of the killer. "It hit at the heart of my professionalism, of everything I'd ever done for the town. Ryan was a shy child with a keen interest in the military. Then the radio announced the names of some of the people whod been shot, but didn't say if they were dead or alive. The Housing Department of Newbury District Council made accommodation available for those residents of South View who found themselves homeless after the fires Ryan had started. Ryan's mother consistently pandered to her husband and son so Michael saw her as someone who was there to do things for him and essentially serve him - so he felt a sense of entitlement to treat her however he wanted.". It was about 10 minutes since Mrs Jackson had asked her husband to return home and the two men had no idea of the danger into which they were heading. As Mr Playle rounded a bend in Priory Street, Ryan fired a single shot. He was making his way to a part-time gardening job in the nearby village of Inkpen. Her training with St John Ambulance had led her to believe she could not have been shot, as bullets typically leave a large exit wound. At around 4 pm, the Royal Air Force hospital in nearby Wroughton contacted the Princess Margaret Hospital to inform them that they could take the next two serious and six minor casualties. Read more: Amazing archive photos show the changing face of Reading in the 1960s, Read more: Caversham Park Village from the air 50 years ago. "I rushed back to check on Jane and on the way I saw smoke coming up from South View [a nearby street]. The primary school where Marjorie Jackson was a caretaker had broken up for the summer holidays. Michael used to play at Mrs Jackson's home with one of her sons. Prof Jackson says it was at this point Ryan changed his plans. While the physical injuries from that fateful day have long since healed, the emotional scars in Hungerford still run deep. He threw his Kalashnikov out of the window, leaving him with only his 9mm Beretta and ammunition. Now, as his colleague, quantity surveyor George White, drove him home to check on his wife, they came across Ryan. One of the Tactical Firearms Unit climbed onto the school roof and with a mirror on a long pole, managed to see into the classroom at last. "My brother and sister-in-law were on the list.". 19th August 1987. In the ambulance on the way to hospital in Swindon, Ivor Jackson's heart had twice stopped beating. This seemed to fit the profile of Michael Ryan. The speed with which he carried out his agenda indicates an element of forethought. Hungerford is a pretty canalside town famous for its antiques shops and upmarket boutiques. Adding to the sound of gunfire in the area was the fact that the Thames Valley firearms squad were in training, about 40 miles away. He saw Mr White and Mr Jackson in the car and Mr Clements - who had been walking his dog with his family - lying dead on the footpath. All over Berkshire, the funerals that followed the massacre were deeply poignant. Getty Images offers exclusive rights-ready and premium royalty-free analog, HD, and 4K video of the highest quality. Pic: Daily Mail / Hungerford Massacre 1987. George Noon, 67, was standing in the garden of his sons house, 109 Priory Road, when Ryan shot him in the shoulder and the eye, but he survived. A few days after the murders, Mr Wainwright - who had carried out the routine checks for Ryan's firearms licence - was astonished to see the Today newspapers front page splash. Seeing two of his neighbours, Roland and Sheila Mason, in their back garden, he shot Roland six times and Sheila once, in the head. The local police station had only two working phone lines that day and the police helicopter was being repaired, delaying its deployment. Then Ryan had shot and killed Abdul Khan, a hard-of-hearing 84-year-old who was gardening. Eventually, shots were heard coming from John O'Gaunt School. LONDON (AP) _ Michael Ryan, the gun-loving loner who became Britain's worst mass murderer, won't be buried with the doting mother he killed and ''almost certainly'' won't be buried in the town he devastated, his family said Saturday. Select from premium Hungerford Michael Ryan of the highest quality. He also wanted to know if his dog had been found and if they had located his M1 carbine and its magazine, as he didnt want the children to find it and hurt themselves. Scenes in Hungerford, Berkshire, following a gun siege in the town the day before, the event became known as the Hungerford massacre, pictured is the. Despite the police helicopter hovering above him and telling him to lay down his weapons, Ryan merely walked away. Trevor can't move out to his own place. It was a good day to spend in the garden - hot and sunny. It later transpired that he had shot the family dog, a black Labrador. 6 were already dead.". The Round Table helped by providing funds for taxis, rents, television rentals and other services. Next to him, in the passenger seat, Ivor Jackson was also shot in his arm, chest and head. Police were still hunting for the gunman in their midst. 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. "And then I remembered the name. 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. At 6.45 pm he said, Its funny, I killed all those people but I havent got the guts to blow my own brains out. Whether Mrs Ryan truly believed her son's imaginings is impossible to tell. Ryan approached, looked at him and shot him three times. Ryan then abandoned his M1 carbine in the Memorial Gardens. Near her body were two groups of German-made 9mm spent cartridges. Moving up Fairview Road, Ryan found neighbour, Abdul Khan, 84, a retired restaurateur, mowing the lawn in his back garden. 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?". But Ryan had moved. In less than an hour, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had killed 12 of their classmates and 1 teacher, injuring 24. The woman did not believe them at first but agreed to help them find her. That was possibly even worse than hearing it the first time.". It is known that he made her put her son and daughter, aged two and four, in her car. Inside, PC Roger Brereton, a traffic officer who had volunteered to investigate, was slumped against the steering wheel, clearly dead. The police officers at the scene did not apprehend him at this point, as they were unarmed. Why are you doing this?. 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. On 19 August 1987, gunman Michael Ryan went on the rampage in the small town of Hungerford. Maybe he was distracted; maybe he enjoyed the power of sparing Mrs Wainwright's life. The case of Michael Ryan, who went on a killing spree in the small town of Hungerford, resulting in the murder of 16 people, including his own mother. "There was a picture of my dad, dead in a car with a blanket over him. Later that day, his parents were driving up from their home in Kent to visit him. A police negotiator managed to engage him in conversation. The loss affected him profoundly and he became increasingly withdrawn, often going off alone to the shooting range, or working on cars. "Then he shot her again, twice, in the back, from about four inches away.". "You know, it's funny. The final shooting took place at about 13:45. They flew the police helicopter past the window, but could not see in to the classroom. Were just waiting until life gets back to normal. However, the jovial atmosphere was soon to be shattered and peoples lives changed forever.Savernake Forest, a popular recreational area seven miles from Hungerford, was a favourite haunt of Ryans, where he would spend great deals of time pretending to be on army manoeuvres. Brereton was hit by four of the bullets and died in his car. "In fact, I first thought it was another lad who lived there. He had a few friends but always shied away from any sporting or social events at school. "Writing the letter did me good, but I don't think it would have helped the people of Dunblane.". The Jacksons had loved their home on South View, with its large garden, and were in the process of buying it. They were unable to refuse him as he had no record of mental instability and no criminal record. Mrs Wainwright had the presence of mind to get out of the car and cower behind it. He tried pulling the trigger twice more, but both times the rifle failed to fire. Two days later, Mr Playle died from his injuries. Over 20 mass shootings have occurred in the US since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. Also, he had never before bought so much petrol at one time, making Dean suspicious, so she kept an eye on him.Whilst Dean served another customer, Ian George, Ryan went to the boot of his car and brought out a semi-automatic rifle. What she found was houses on fire, people lying dead in their gardens and smashed cars lining the street. Francis Butler was shot while walking his dog in the Memorial Gardens; Marcus Barney Barnard, was shot while driving to his home; Douglas Wainwright, died as he drove with his wife to visit their son; Erie Vardy, was shot while driving his van. An only child, Michael Robert Ryan was born on 18 May 1960 in the Savernake hospital, Hungerford. She had been to check on the building, which was just the other side of the street from her South View home, and was returning to her house for lunch when a springer spaniel ran past. Angela Wrightson: A chaotic life and brutal death. 3 - Kenneth Clements But we've stuck by each other.". "He was dead after all. "I didnt know by doing that, by asking him to come home, I was just leading them both into danger.". He ordered her to put her children in the car, which she did immediately, strapping them in and telling them to wait there for her, that she would be back soon. People were frantic to get to their families to see if they were safe and unharmed. Stop it, you stupid bugger!. The Hungerford massacre occurred in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, on August 19, 1987. The gunman was reloading his weapon and Mrs Wainwright thought he would shoot at her again. People were sheltering in doorways and I pulled up and asked what was going on. Ryan was well-known for driving "like a bat out of hell" - the only time he had been in trouble with the police was for breaking the speed limit. Back at the police station, PC Wainwright was told his mother had been taken to hospital in Swindon. "I just thought: 'They dont want outsiders. The manager later reported that Ryan spent a lot of time at the club and that he was a very good shot, showing consistent accuracy over large distances. It was one of the young Ryan's favourite places, where he enjoyed tracking wildlife through the undergrowth and practising survival skills. The day before, on 19 August 1987, Michael Ryan, a 27-year-old Hungerford man, drove to nearby Savernake Forest and shot dead Susan Godfrey, who was picnicking with her two young children,. Still shooting, Ryan then walked to the end of the road, went along a footpath and made his way across some playing fields. Ryan had murdered 16 people and seriously injured 15 more, but his whereabouts were unknown. Later, police told her they believed her life had been saved by the fact she'd kept her curtains drawn as she pottered about, doing her housework in her nightgown. Ambulance driver Hazel Haslett arrived minutes later. They survived, although Alison still has a bullet inside her. Ryan used a semi-automatic rifle, an M1 Carbine and a Beretta pistol to carry out a string of attacks in the village. She was fully clothed but riddled with bullets. "He certainly had no 'manifesto' or message to the world.". As Mr White turned his Toyota Crown into South View, he was shot in the head and died instantly. And she said I'm really sorry. That's not him. 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. '", Chief Inspector Laurie Fray and PC Colin Lilley hold Ryan's murder weapons. Michael Ryan murdered 16 people before turning the gun on himself. They keep meaning to frame it and put it up on the wall. "After what happened, lots of people split up," says Ivor Jackson. For more stories of the worst people on earth, visit our . A fellow park visitor, Myra Rose, found the children wandering around and they told her their mother had been shot. It was his gun cupboard. He took aim and killed her with a single bullet to the chest. That summer afternoon Ryan, a 27-year-old unemployed labourer, killed 16 people . document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) Both died instantly. Ryan intimated he might be prepared to give himself up. Mrs Gibbs died several days later, in hospital. 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. It's not known whether Ryan spent a long time watching Sue Godfrey, a 35-year-old nurse who had stopped with her two young children for a picnic lunch. He carried on, shooting Mrs Godfrey 13 times until he ran out of ammunition. The Killing Spree That Changed UK Gun Laws: Hungerford Massacre (Crime Documentary) | Real Stories Real Stories 5.92M subscribers Subscribe 3.4K 462K views 3 years ago Explores the case of. "At the hospital, where my mum was, everyone who'd been shot had been put into the same ward. Mrs Jackson noticed he was holding a gun in each hand. Hungerford. 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. South View became a popular haunt for tourists. While Ryan roamed Hungerford, murdering and maiming people he'd known for years, a woman lay dead in Savernake Forest. Meanwhile, a police officer had noticed Godfreys empty car with open doors and had gone to investigate. It was a police vehicle which had its blue lights flashing. 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