Thomas Hamilton murdered 17 people in Dunblane in 1996. He expressed sorrow over shooting his mother and his dog, and then said: "Hungerford must be a bit of a mess. As he went along Priory Road, Ryan stopped at the home of Myrtle and Victor Gibbs, whose door was, as usual, locked. Trevor Wainwright says he is "haunted" by his father's death. Ryan hadnt stopped there, though. These include Lonewolf: True Stories of Spree Killers (May 2002) by Pan Pantziarka and The Encyclopedia of Mass Murder by Brian Lane and Wilfred Gregg (1993). Former mummy blogger Clemmie Hooper is facing a midwifery misconduct hearing - three years after she confessed to trolling other influencers on a gossip forum. Ryan used a semi-automatic rifle, an M1 Carbine and a Beretta pistol to carry out a string of attacks in the village. Sent them away.". It was one of the young Ryan's favourite places, where he enjoyed tracking wildlife through the undergrowth and practising survival skills. 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. Having chased the spaniel away, Ryan returned. "He was dead after all. The smiling Ryan shot 11 rounds from his semi-automatic at another car that drove into the street. Someone had shot at the cashier, Kakoub Dean. The Hungerford Massacre was a spree shooting that took place in Hungerford, England, United Kingdom, on August 19, 1987. I couldn't walk. Besotted with the military, Ryan bought army jackets, survival gear and masks. They keep meaning to frame it and put it up on the wall. "I think he used to do it quite often, but then with him he used to say lots of things. Ryan then went to Froxtield petrol station, where he was watched by Mrs Kakoub Dean, wife of the owner, as he filled up his metallic silver Vauxhall Astra GTE, as well as a five-litre can. But she wasn't. Both died instantly. The British Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, travelled to Hungerford on Sunday, 23 August 1987. I saw Robert Clements hed been walking the dog with his dad, Ken, and just witnessed him shot dead in South View. The dog and its pursuer rounded a bend before disappearing from view. Mrs Jackson had known Ryan all of his life. Ian Playle, the last victim to be fatally shot, had in fact been warned of the danger in South View by police. Mrs Pascoe stemmed the bleeding and stayed with the girl until an ambulance arrived. The boy enjoyed pointing his weapon at cows, birds and even other children, says Dr Yardley. But Ryan had moved. When Michael Ryan went on a killing spree in Hungerford in 1987, the news - like last week's shootings in Cumbria - shocked the country. The act banned semi-automatic and pump-action rifles; weapons which fire explosive ammunition; short shotguns with magazines; and elevated pump-action and self-loading rifles. 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. 2 - Sheila Mason 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. There was also a made-up girlfriend - a delusion which went far enough for Mrs Ryan to invite people to the wedding. 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. Ryan broke into the Gibbs' house on Priory Road. Short for his age, Ryan was often teased and bullied but never retaliated and consequently avoided other children. Every single time.". There he announced that he had commissioned a report on the massacre from the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Colin Smith. In a grove of trees headed by an ancient standing stone, near the cricket pitch used by the school in Hungerford where gunman Michael Ryan holed up, a body last night lay covered by a blanket. As the brothers were cleaning up, a reporter burst in. Stop it, you stupid bugger!. She recognised him as a regular customer at the petrol station, but not a chatty or friendly one. That summer afternoon Ryan, a 27-year-old unemployed labourer, killed 16 people . 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. Armed with an automatic rifle, a pistol and at least one. At one point, he claimed to have an Israeli fragmentation type hand grenade, which seriously worried the police. 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. By this stage, the press had heard of the killing spree and arrived in the area, taking photographs of the dead and wounded, and unethically gaining access to some of the victims houses, by saying they were crime scene personnel. Ryan walked past a young boy, Dean Lavisher, without seeming to notice him, but fired at another boy riding past on his bicycle, Dean Cadle, thankfully missing him. There was a police guard on the front door so he had sneaked through the garden and into the house through the back door. Read about our approach to external linking. Ryan fired at them and Victor died instantly, whilst Myrtle died later in hospital. 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. Whilst chatting to a work colleague, the subject of Michael Ryan and the 1987 Hungerford massacre came up. The letter, complete with golden tassel, is still in its recorded delivery envelope and is kept in a basket in the Jacksons' kitchen. 15 - Ian Playle, Susan Godfrey was shot and killed in Savernake Forest. He used his semi-automatic rifle to strafe the front door and open it. The Hungerford massacre occurred in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, on August 19, 1987. I still get dreadful pain in my back. Armed with three guns, he had already murdered six people and seriously injured seven more. The local Hungerford police station was in the process of being renovated and had only two telephone lines working on that day. He told people he had served in the Second Parachute Regiment of the British armed forces, that he was getting married, and that he owned a gun shop. He died instantly from chest wounds. What happened in the woods is the clue to why the shootings happened, Prof Jackson believes. 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. Because the road was blocked by PC Brereton and Mr White's car, he and his partner could not drive their ambulance up, so he went on foot. "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. 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. Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering thirteen women and attacking seven other women. Witnesses report that at this point, Ryan seemed disgusted with the rifle and threw it onto the ground. 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. Ambulance driver Hazel Haslett arrived minutes later. The wheelchair-bound Myrtle was totally vulnerable and Victor threw himself across her to protect her from the crazed gunman. "I said he could, and he said: 'When that man shot that man, all of the birds flew out of the trees and shat themselves'. He liked to think of himself as a soldier, skilled at surveillance without being seen himself. They'll do what we did. Mark Howe murdered his mother Katrina Wardle in a brutal knife attack. 33 years ago today, a sleepy Berkshire town was rocked by one of the most shocking mass shootings ever seen in the UK. He threw his Kalashnikov out of the window, leaving him with only his 9mm Beretta and ammunition. AETNUK All Rights Reserved. It was confirmed that Michael Robert Ryan had fatally shot himself at 6.52 pm on Wednesday, 19 August 1987, with a single gunshot to the head. 10 - Douglas Wainwright She was a respected and popular member of the community and used to work as a dinner lady at the Hungerford Primary School before becoming a part-time waitress at the Elcot Park Hotel, where she worked for 12 years, until her death.Ryan grew up in South View, Hungerford and relatives remembered him as a quiet, mostly sullen and quite self-centred boy. Michael Ryan : The Hungerford Massacre. 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". Ms Haslett reversed rapidly and she and her partner escaped with only minor injuries. Mrs Wainwright had the presence of mind to get out of the car and cower behind it. 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. After the murders, though, visitors were less satisfied by remaining in the attractive main street. [CDATA[// >