[17] She sought first aid from her mother and another nearby resident and survived. People say 'I knew Michael Ryan well', but when you talk to them, you realise they didn't know him at all.". He set fire to the house with the petrol he bought earlier in the day, the fire damaging three surrounding properties. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited the village on Thursday, August 20, 1987, the day after the shooting, to pay her condolences. Hungerford does not want to remember its massacre. Hungerford is a picturesque market town with a population of 5,000 situated in the Kennet valley midway between Newbury and Marlborough. How could anyone who was here ever forget what happened on that terrible day?". [24] A witness gave Butler first aid, but he died before an ambulance arrived. Along sidewalks of this idyllic market town in western England, residents gathered in clutches yesterday, some consoling others, some questioning. It was the 19th of August, 1987, when 35-year-old Susan Godfrey, a nurse at Dunedin Hospital in Reading, left her home in Burghfield Common to take her two young children for a picnic in Savernake Forest. The 17th, Ryan himself, is not mentioned. It is also true that a great many young men possess violent films but do not go on to act violently. View Susan Murphy's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Susan was a graduate of Flint Central High School and Hurley School of Nursing. He's since said all he remembers was a "blank face, semi-smiling". "I'll never forget the smell of gunpowder, which lingered heavily in the air. He started buying survivalist magazines and wearing military fatigues, sneaking up on people picnicking in the park. 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 picnickers. The Hungerford massacre was a spree shooting in Hungerford, England, United Kingdom, on 19 August 1987, when 27-year-old Michael Ryan shot dead sixteen people, including an unarmed police officer and his own mother, before shooting himself. Stopping at a petrol station, he shot and failed to kill an attendant. Enter Susan Hungerford's first and last name into the empty spaces. ", But no incident has brought the pain of Hungerford back as pointedly as Dunblane. At the time, Trevor had been the local bobby for 15 years and was familiar with most people in the town, including Ryan. When news broke of Derrick Bird's shootings in Cumbria, the residents of Hungerford knew what was coming next. One woman present that evening was 41-year-old Lyn Thompson, a mother-of-three who has lived in the town all her life. Rachel David / She Threw All Of Her Children From The 11th Floor Balcony. "He used to hit his mother a lot but he couldn't pick on a man," Mr Morley said. In the Berkshire market town of Hungerford, Sue Godfrey packed a picnic and her two children into her car and headed for nearby Savernake Forest. "She coped admirably. It left this market town of about 5,000 people in shock and raised questions about whether Britain's gun laws, already considered among the strictest in the world, were strict enough. The Hungerford Report was commissioned by Home Secretary Douglas Hurd from the Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police, Colin Smith. "It wasn't in the rules how do you deal with a shooting?" The massacre led to a backlash about gun laws, and saw the 1988 Firearms Act created, which restricted the use of shotguns and bans ownership of semi automatic weapons. [15] He left the petrol station and the cashier telephoned 999; this call had been preceded by another emergency call, possibly by a member of the public who believed they saw an armed robbery at the petrol station. He shot the family dog or dogs (reports differ, one or two). Shortly after 8 p.m., a muffled shot rang out. Mrs Godfrey died with 15 bullets in her back and her children, aged four and two, sobbing by their mother's body. Getty Images offers exclusive rights-ready and premium royalty-free analog, HD, and 4K video of the highest quality. TV Shows. But at home his mother lavished attention on her only child - even when he reacted to her with violence. . I didn't hear any more.". Spoof Welsh rap group Goldie Lookin' Chain mentioned the killer in their song Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do, a satire on the supposed links between gangsta rap and gun crime as reported in the press: 'Like Michael Ryan, about to snap, guns don't kill people, it's just rap'. After the massacre, a town is in stunned disbelief. Mr Hill believes that with the new government there is an inside chance of winning a total handgun ban. Page 10 - Germany, or his excelileucy in Italy. He forced the terrified woman to put children in the car, and then marched her to the woods and shot her 13 times with an AK 47 rifle. Kay Wainwright's father, Douglas, was shot and killed by Ryan at the wheel of his car, as he and his wife, Kath, drove into Hungerford to visit their son. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Navigate to the "People Search" section on the CocoFinder website. Weight. In the 45 minutes it took for the ambulance to arrive, Sylvia stemmed Lisa's bleeding. Ten years ago this week, there was a knock at the Lepetits' door and Ryan asked her husband, Alan, if he could help him downstairs with a heavy box. Several shots rang out as a van passed the Norland nursing home and the driver slumped dead at the wheel. I thought if I had signed my father's death warrant I had signed the death warrant of all the other 15 people.". He killed a dog-walker who had raised his hands in surrender. Three months after the shootings, by which point a few people were beginning to move away from the area because of what happened, Trevor's mother moved into town. Next he shot Marjorie Jackson and 14-year-old Lisa Mildenhall, wounding them both severely. She is named in her father's Will and unmarried in 1514. It was one of the worst mass shootings in British history. 1987, Sue Godfrey stopped there with her two young children, Hannah and James, for a picnic. America did": Rambo and post-Hungerford rhetoric', Cultural Studies, 3:2, pp. Sion Owen. Arriving home at South View, a dead-end street at a high point in Hungerford, he shot his dog, doused his house in petrol and set it alight. [7], Following Ryan's death, his mental health came under analysis. Susan Godfrey Owner: Stained Glass and Gifts Mfg Products-Purchased Glass: 4290 N Genesee Rd, Flint, MI 48506 (810) 736-6766: Susan Godfrey Principal: Jili Ice-Cream Cafe Inc Eating Place: 507 Maynard Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104: Susan Godfrey Manager: Burger King Full-Service Restaurants: 415 Jonestown Rd, Winston Salem, NC 27104 (336) 760-8430 . Said Club Manager Andrew White: "He was a very good shot. Among others, he killed his neighbour Ken Clements, PC Brereton, his mother Dorothy when she pleaded with him to stop shooting, Francis Butler, shot while walking his dog, and Douglas Wainwright, George White and Eric Vardy, all shot while driving past. He was 71. At one point Jack Williams, another former mayor of the town, pauses. Management of client portfolio and dealing effectively with client and insurer queries. Talking is one of the essential features. Mentioned as "niece Raynall" in the Will of her half uncle, Sir Edward Hungerford, in 1607. "A few days after the shootings, I woke to the front page headline: PC Signed Own Father's Death Warrant. 53 kg or 117 lbs MADHATTERDESIGN@GMAIL.COM, FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION, MIKADROID: ROBOKILL BENEATH DISCO CLUB LAYLA, MOH - INCIDENT ON AND OFF A MOUNTAIN ROAD, ARTICLE "THE ICEMAN" RICHARD LEONARD KUKLINSKI, Like old school VHS Covers? Their hearts sank when they saw the TV vans return. We had to dodge around Mrs Ryan's body, as well as that of our other neighbours. Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57. One local woman quietly donated 10,000. After a couple of days, it soon became obvious that wasn't good advice at all," Tarry says. [2] Fourteen-year-old Lisa Mildenhall, who also lived nearby, heard the noise and went to see what it was; Ryan shot her four times in the legs. The case of Michael Ryan will be shown on the latest programme in the Murderers and their Mothers series on CBS Reality on Sunday at 9pm. Ryan was apparently indulged and spoiled, getting the toys and later the records and clothes he wanted from his mother who also apparently gave him a sense of superiority by the love she lavished on him. "Oh God, they are not going to bring that up again?" On this day 30 years ago, 16 people were killed in one of the deadliest mass shootings in the UK. He threw a semi-automatic rifle out of the window and is said to have told officers: "It's funny I've killed all those people but I haven't got the guts to blow my own brains out.". Susan Godfrey is a provider established in Braintree, Massachusetts and her medical specialization is Nurse Practitioner with more than 13 years of experience. All of our Serial Killer Magazines and books are massive, perfect bound editions. No more was heard from him. [1] Mr David Lee, the headmaster, failed to recall him. Although the magazine takes this subject very seriously and in no way attempts to glorify the crimes describe in it, it also provides a unique collection of rare treats (including mini biographical comics, crossword puzzles and trivia quizzes). "Thankfully, someone had put a blanket over his head.". Under the firearms laws at the time, there was no reason to decline Ryan's applications and two weeks later this was approved by PC Trevor Wainwright, of Thames Valley Police. All I felt was total shock. Jack Williams remembers Betty Tolladay, who had a house on the edge of the common. Hungerford is home to plenty of country sports enthusiasts and a thriving gun shop, so while Ryan may have been "an oddball", he hardly stood out. The police scoured the area and two hours later he was reported to be trapped inside the school. [32] At 16:40 they heard a gunshot within a school building and more officers went to the scene; the police first saw Ryan at the school at 17:26, shortly after he had thrown his Norinco out of a third-floor window. She, before 1539, was the first wife of Sir Walter Hungerford, Lord Hungerford. Join Facebook to connect with Susan D. Goga and others you may know. Because we work on both sides of the docket, we know what our opposition is thinking. Dr Monckton-Smith added: "Everything in the school atmosphere was a failure for him. He'd stood pointing a gun at them with a band of bullets strung around his chest before opening fire. [8] The licence only permitted Ryan to use the weapons at approved ranges; his application stated that he would use them at a target shooting facility in Abingdon[8] and he was a member of a rifle club in Devizes. get yours now before they are gone forever. Press biographies all stated that he had a fondness for, and possibly even an obsession with guns. 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