Then he tore his heartfelt letter up. It was calculated that during the most intense period of Ryans rampage, he had killed an average of one person per minute. 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Hungerford is a pretty canalside town famous for its antiques shops and upmarket boutiques. 3 - Kenneth Clements I knew I had to help.". She shouted at him, saying, Is that you making that noise? Ambulance driver Hazel Haslett arrived minutes later. The woman did not believe them at first but agreed to help them find her. "The station was locked, so I let myself in with a key. After some time, young Hannah unbuckled their seatbelts, so they could go in search of their mother. But, although the house was cleaned and modernised and made available for them, they could not bear to return. Ms Haslett reversed rapidly and she and her partner escaped with only minor injuries. People were frantic to get to their families to see if they were safe and unharmed. His wife and children were unhurt. "If he had the choice - to die from a horrible disease like that, or be shot, I know he'd choose the bullet. Saturday marks 30 years since Michael Ryan killed 16 people in Hungerford. It was a good day to spend in the garden - hot and sunny. Angrily, Ryan climbed out of the car and shot five bullets into the boot. The birds didn't sing again for five days.". "The tourist buses would just park where they usually did and then people used to come up here on foot," Trevor Jackson says. Ryan's mother Dorothy was shot not far from her home in South View as she pleaded with her son to stop the shooting. 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. Pic: Daily Mail / Hungerford Massacre 1987. Their pictures were a grim account of the trail of destruction and death that Ryan had left in his wake. He put some petrol in his car and some in a canister. "They were looking for bullet holes and spent shell cases to collect. At age 16, he left John OGaunt School to attend a technical college, the Newbury College of Further Education, intending to learn to become a building contractor.Although he tried hard, it soon became apparent that Ryan showed no flair for this trade and soon dropped out of college. All over Berkshire, the funerals that followed the massacre were deeply poignant. If only my car had started. I hurried home and got out of the car. 15 - Ian Playle, Susan Godfrey was shot and killed in Savernake Forest. The young policeman wondered whether he should see if he could do anything to help. Helicopters were hovering over Hungerford. There was also a made-up girlfriend - a delusion which went far enough for Mrs Ryan to invite people to the wedding. He would also brag to people about things he had not done, in a string of lies that made him seem far more capable and experienced than he actually was. Ryan approached, looked at him and shot him three times. 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. Here he shot her 13 times, dropped the groundsheet and returned to parking area. The press helicopters were in the way of police trying to track Ryan and this allowed him to get away again. Mr Playle's blue Ford Sierra crashed after he was shot by Ryan. Ryans school friend remembers his mother would buy the boy whatever he wanted, but his father "couldnt be played" and "wore the trousers" in the house. He then carries on killing with his legally purchased and licensed Kalashnikov capable of killing at 300 yards. 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). The police had already received a report, from George, of an armed robbery in progress at the petrol station and were en route to her. "And then I remembered the name. Typically, by the time people got through to the 999 system, Ryan had gone elsewhere. 9 - Marcus Barnard The incident prompted the government to change gun laws, banning semi-automatic and pump-action rifles. So he continued to Inkpen and Mrs Roland-Clarke's garden. There was no way he would miss. He carried on, shooting Mrs Godfrey 13 times until he ran out of ammunition. The Hungerford Family Help Unit was hastily established in makeshift offices, co-ordinated by John Smith, to help a community suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He found low-paid work as a caretaker at a girls school. He later died of shock and haemorrhage from the bullet wound to his neck. Along the way, Ryan shot and wounded a man, who was pulled to safety as Ryan moved closer in order to shoot him again. They'll do what we did. 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. Ryan, an unemployed laborer and an antique dealer, was walking in Hungerford, Berkshire, on a summer afternoon when he targeted his first victim - a mother of two children in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, at 12:30 pm. Write by: . "I put two and two together and assumed that the armed robbers from Froxfield had been cornered in Hungerford," he said. Lepetit had heard about shooting in his neighbourhood and was hurrying home to check on his family. He also had a more sinister motivation for visiting the woodland. "When you work for the ambulance service, you do your best to help people," Mr Whiting says. Michael Ryan: The Hungerford Massacre: Directed by Adam Luria. There he announced that he had commissioned a report on the massacre from the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Colin Smith. This had been Ryans first victim. Armed with an automatic rifle, a pistol and at least one. ', "She told me to get my arse straight down there. Say the name Hungerford and most people will associate the town with the events of Wednesday, 19 August, 1987. 1 - Roland Mason It was one of the worst mass shootings in British history. She knew her husband was dead. Sixteen people were killed and 15 more were seriously injured in what was the UK's worst mass. ]]> Mrs Jackson, a bullet lodged in the base of her spine, crawled through the blood and glass on her linoleum and managed to lock Katie and Raffles, a Pekingese and a Tibetan spaniel, into a kitchen cupboard. It was one of the young Ryan's favourite places, where he enjoyed tracking wildlife through the undergrowth and practising survival skills. But how did the town heal its wounds? Ryan was holding one of his most prized possessions - a Chinese copy of a Kalashnikov semi-automatic rifle. At 6.52 pm, Brightwell heard a single muffled shot from the classroom. "My daughter arranged it. Fifteen vehicles were taken away for forensic examination. They were unable to refuse him as he had no record of mental instability and no criminal record. Their inability to defend themselves against their bullies means that shame, guilt, anger, hate and the need for revenge builds inside them. At the time, the idea crucified me. "I didnt know the Masons at No. The primary school where Marjorie Jackson was a caretaker had broken up for the summer holidays. "Writing the letter did me good, but I don't think it would have helped the people of Dunblane.". Moving closer, he noticed the rear window of the police car had been shot out. She told him someone was shooting across the back gardens of their road. Ryan then abandoned his M1 carbine in the Memorial Gardens. George White was driving Ivor Jackson back from work. As Mr White turned his Toyota Crown into South View, he was shot in the head and died instantly. Kahn died later of his wounds. 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