Then the nurse came back. Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attacking seven other women. At one point, he claimed to have an Israeli fragmentation type hand grenade, which seriously worried the police. Her children, who were 85 yards away from where her body was found, were later reunited with their father. Popular cab driver, Marcus Bernard, 30, was en route to visit his wife and newborn son in the local hospital. Find professional Hungerford Michael Ryan videos and stock footage available for license in film, television, advertising and corporate uses. "It hasn't got any easier. Pathologists determined she was killed by the first three bullets. Now, as his colleague, quantity surveyor George White, drove him home to check on his wife, they came across Ryan. Linda was hit in the shoulder and Alison in the right thigh. I could smell cordite in the air. He believes Ryan would get an illicit sexual thrill during his woodland trips and obtain pleasure and a sense of accomplishment from following and watching people unseen. He carried on, shooting Mrs Godfrey 13 times until he ran out of ammunition. At about 02:00 she looked out of the window and saw the bodies from South View being collected and driven away. Semi-automatic rifles Ryan used during his rampage. He chased me all the way. "I thought: 'How the hell can I go and see her if they're all blaming me? 1 - Roland Mason 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. It was on August 19 1987 that loner and gun fanatic Michael Ryan went on a shooting rampage in Hungerford, a market town in Berkshire. Mark Howe murdered his mother Katrina Wardle in a brutal knife attack. She managed to drag herself into her house and survived. He took it seriously.". By the time Dean looked back at him, he had assumed a shooting position, with the rifle aimed directly at her. He tried pulling the trigger twice more, but both times the rifle failed to fire. "They were looking for bullet holes and spent shell cases to collect. The result was police were often up to 40 minutes behind his movements. Either way, the mourning period for an entire town was still to be endured.The Reverend David Salt received countless communications of support and offers of help poured in to the Hungerford vicarage. 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. 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. But it appears she never contradicted him in public. Eric Vardy, a carpenter and van driver for Norland Nursery College, was on his way with passenger, Steven Ball, to a builders supplier. "I didnt know by doing that, by asking him to come home, I was just leading them both into danger.". It was being chased up the road by Michael Ryan. While the physical injuries from that fateful day have long since healed, the emotional scars in Hungerford still run deep. "Members of the public were in the station with the police. During the next 90 minutes, Brightwell and Ryan held a long and detailed conversation, during which Ryan seemed quite lucid, calm and easy to talk to. Slaughter on a warm summer's day: The Hungerford massacre, 47 minutes of horror: The Columbine massacre, Rampage killers : shooters without remorse, America's 8 deadliest mass shootings since Columbine, Crime + Investigation Play - What to watch in March 2023. Read about our approach to external linking. The Hungerford Massacre on August 19, 1987, saw 16 people killed in a. It was one of the young Ryan's favourite places, where he enjoyed tracking wildlife through the undergrowth and practising survival skills. Two days later, Mr Playle died from his injuries. Saturday marks 30 years since Michael Ryan killed 16 people in Hungerford. They lived a few doors from each other and their families were friends. Despite the police helicopter hovering above him and telling him to lay down his weapons, Ryan merely walked away. If this was his plan, it fell to pieces when his car would not restart. Dorothy Ryan tried to reason with her son. Sandra Hill, who'd moved away from the town, was visiting former school friends. Later that day, his parents were driving up from their home in Kent to visit him. But this did actually ring true. Changing his mind, he retrieved it and carried on walking, away from town. 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 sense of disbelief and shock still reverberate across the nation, 25 years later, Looking back at the two most shocking gun massacres in British history. It seemed that the guns gave Ryan the feeling of power and control that he had always lacked. Access was blocked for the fire engine called to deal with the fire Ryan had started in his own home and which had already spread to three neighbouring properties. I could see her hip bone.". 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. "And I kept thinking, if it was true that I'd signed my dad's death warrant, it meant I'd also signed all those other people's too. Wearing camouflage outfits, he enjoyed sneaking up on picnickers and watching them without their knowledge, before disappearing again. Michael Ryan went on the rampage through the Berkshire town of Hungerford in 1987 shooting 16 people dead and wounding 14 others. 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. Dorothy then saw her son with a gun in his hand and called to him, saying, Stop Michael. 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. 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. Both died instantly. At 17:25, Ryan threw a semi-automatic rifle from the classroom window. Helicopters were hovering over Hungerford. Mrs Jackson noticed he was holding a gun in each hand. "I knew Id been hit. Unfortunately, the bullet travelled up into Alisons lower back, leaving her permanently disabled. Press intrusion is something the Jacksons continue to feel very strongly about. Her Majesty the Queens private secretary sent a letter of condolence from Buckingham Palace to Mayor Tarry and enclosed a personal contribution from the Queen. As Mr White turned his Toyota Crown into South View, he was shot in the head and died instantly. Because Ryan burned down his home, any evidence of planning was destroyed. Jackson played dead and survived the shooting.He heard what happened next, as Dorothy Ryan, returning home from some shopping, arrived at the scene in her car. He later died of shock and haemorrhage from the bullet wound to his neck. It was one of the worst mass shootings in British history. 13 - Victor Gibbs As smoke filled the air from Ryans burning house, more people were hiding inside their homes. He died instantly from chest wounds. Sent them away.". The gunman was reloading his weapon and Mrs Wainwright thought he would shoot at her again. Lisa Mildenhall had been in the garden with her sister and two children from another house. Hungerford. After the murders, the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 was passed following a report commissioned by then-Home Secretary Douglas Hurd. A few moths before the massacre, Ryan joined the Tunnel Rifle and Pistol Club, in Wiltshire. It was the same school he had attended more than a decade before. At another point, close to the end, he said, I wish I had stayed in bed. 33 years ago today, a sleepy Berkshire town was rocked by one of the most shocking mass shootings ever seen in the UK. 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. "He was trapped and didn't have a viable way out of his situation.". 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. John O'Gaunt School in Hungerford, Berkshire, where Michael Robert Ryan committed suicide following the Hungerford Massacre, 8th September 1987. Whether or not these were completely accurate accounts, they certainly encapsulated the emotion of relief foremost in peoples minds immediately after the massacre that the carnage was finally over. 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. 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. Ron Tarry, Hungerfords Mayor, claimed that the locals were in shock and speaking in hushed tones and that it was the press and others who had flocked to the scene who were doing the drinking in pubs. "I assumed it had been some sort of accident with glass and that Lisa had been cut," she says. Mrs Gibbs died several days later, in hospital. S02:E04 - Peter Sutcliffe - the Yorkshire Ripper. He also had a more sinister motivation for visiting the woodland. Without replying, Ryan shot his mother twice in the stomach and once in the leg. I probably did three or four of these checks a week. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Hungerford the day after the attack, Mrs Thatcher meets police and people affected by the incident, This aerial shot shows people fleeing the attack, A Floral tribute outside Hungerford Town Hall, A shocked policeman cradling a young girl after her father was brutally murdered, Graham Brunsden was one of many who risked their lives trying to help the victims, Vicar in church with people praying in Hungerford, Janet Mason whose parents, pensioners Roland and Sheila Mason, were among those killed, along with her husband, two children and brother Chris, Marlyne Vardy at the funeral of husband Eric, Police attend a press conference the day after the incident, Dorothy and Alfred Ryan, parents of murderer Michael Ryan. He's dead. It later transpired that he had shot the family dog, a black Labrador. At around 12:45pm, Ryan arrived at his next destination, 4 South View, a dead-end street in Hungerford, where he lived with his widowed mother. Having failed to kill Dean, Ryan quickly returned to his car and drove off towards Hungerford. "Then he shot her again, twice, in the back, from about four inches away.". A fellow park visitor, Myra Rose, found the children wandering around and they told her their mother had been shot. There was a terrible burning pain. 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,. "My brother and sister-in-law were on the list.". Ryan has also been documented on internet sites devoted to mass murder. As he approached a playground near Bulpit Lane he shot and killed dog walker Francis Butler. So he continued to Inkpen and Mrs Roland-Clarke's garden. Say the name Hungerford and most people will associate the town with the events of Wednesday, 19 August, 1987. Healthwise, we're struggling. It was calculated that during the most intense period of Ryans rampage, he had killed an average of one person per minute. He found low-paid work as a caretaker at a girls school. The Jacksons had loved their home on South View, with its large garden, and were in the process of buying it. "Breaking in or shooting into a house and killing the inhabitants and then holding the position for a while before moving on, would have appealed to his military ideals and fantasies," says Prof Jackson. 2 - Sheila Mason But, although the house was cleaned and modernised and made available for them, they could not bear to return. Both recreational and agricultural shooting were normal occurrences in the area. I need to get better and I will walk again. Armed with three guns, he had already murdered six people and seriously injured seven more. Michael Ryan : The Hungerford Massacre. With Craig Jackson, Donal MacIntyre, Sean Preston, Michael Ryan. Find Hungerford Michael Ryan stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. "He used to wear camouflage gear, that sort of thing. Lisa Mildenhall, 14, was shot and wounded by Ryan, who had smiled at her whilst she crouched on the ground at her front door, and then shot her four times in the legs and stomach. The horrific Hungerford Massacre was finally over. 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. He would become extremely angry if people did not believe him and his mother would often confirm these lies to people, in a desperate effort to help her son feel better. He had a few friends but always shied away from any sporting or social events at school. It's testament to her own strength of mind that she did. It was market day in Hungerford, a balmy Wednesday, 19 August 1987. It was on August 19 1987 that loner and gun fanatic Michael Ryan went on a shooting rampage in Hungerford, a market town in Berkshire. 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. document.write(new Date().getFullYear()) Wouldn't hurt a fly.". He also knew the day would end in the loss of his own life, so in effect he was choosing when to die.". 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. Ryan was a shy child with a keen interest in the military. When PC Wainwright heard it was Michael Ryan from South View, he couldn't put a face to the name. Continuing to live with his parents, his doting and indulgent mother would pay for anything he could not afford, including cars, petrol, insurance, and even his first gun, an air rifle. Alan Lepetit, Mrs Whiting's brother, was a neighbour of Ryan's, living in South View. They had heard the sounds of the shots being fired and were terrified. Following the massacre, the British press was inundated with stories about Michael Ryan and speculation as to why he had committed so many acts of unprovoked violence. There he announced that he had commissioned a report on the massacre from the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Colin Smith. He subscribed to magazines on survival skills and guns, including Soldiers of Fortune, and was a fan of violent films such as Rambo: First Blood (1982). Sharp, acrid and smoky.". It is thought he might not have heard the commotion. Mrs Wainwright had the presence of mind to get out of the car and cower behind it. Besotted with the military, Ryan bought army jackets, survival gear and masks. 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. 'It's a show that I'm passionate about': Will Mellor on 'Cops Who Kill'. I still get dreadful pain in my back. Four houses, including Ryan's home at the far right, were later demolished. One of the boys she was with went to fetch his mother, Sylvia Pascoe, a qualified first-aider who lived at No 14. He is still haunted, he says, by the photograph of his father dead in his car. 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. Near her body were two groups of German-made 9mm spent cartridges. In less than an hour, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had killed 12 of their classmates and 1 teacher, injuring 24. "Dorothy came past me, and she looked into the car and I remember it as clear as day. She seemed more concerned about her trousers than her wounds. She recognised him as a regular customer at the petrol station, but not a chatty or friendly one. I had been the one to carry out the checks for Ryans firearms licence.". "It was a massacre," she says. At 6.52 pm, Brightwell heard a single muffled shot from the classroom. Hungerford is a pretty canalside town famous for its antiques shops and upmarket boutiques. 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. I couldn't walk. Another, Eric Vardy, was killed. This Wednesday was no different, with the schools on holiday, many people were taking advantage of the good weather. Thirty years since the Hungerford tragedy. Still shooting, Ryan then walked to the end of the road, went along a footpath and made his way across some playing fields. "I always encouraged him to talk about what happened, and one day he whispered to me and asked if he could use a rude word. Fifteen other people were also shot but survived. Then she phoned the building firm where her husband Ivor was a bricklayer, and asked for a message to be passed on. Pic: Daily Mail / Hungerford Massacre 1987. //-->
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