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. They usually hang up if a journalist approaches them and refuse to have their photograph taken in connection with the shooting. 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. Mrs Jackson had known Ryan all of his life. Sixteen people were killed and 15 more were seriously injured in what was the UK's worst mass. 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,. "He used to say he could follow anyone and they wouldnt notice," said the friend. He was shooting at me. The Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988 was passed in the wake of the massacre. 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. 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. Crossing the street, shooting as he went, Ryan strode towards 60 Priory Road, the home of Victor and Myrtle Gibbs and blasted open the front door with his semi-automatic rifle. "I thought: 'How the hell can I go and see her if they're all blaming me? Hungerford is a big shooting area, farmers and gun clubs and that sort of thing. "What he did was the ultimate taking back of control. At about 16:45, police entered the playground. There was no way he would miss. "He was a good man. 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. The popular weekly market attracted many people and was an event enjoyed by locals and visitors alike. 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. The final shooting took place at about 13:45. 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. 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. 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. Dorothy Ryan, Michaels mother, was a lunchtime supervisor at the primary school where Mrs Jackson worked. He later died of shock and haemorrhage from the bullet wound to his neck. ", Several of Derek and Mary Whiting's relatives were shot. 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. "I just started to run. Its occupants, Linda Chapman and her daughter, Alison Chapman, whilst wounded, both survived. The man, Douglas Wainwright, hit twice in the chest and once in the head, died instantly but his wounded wife, Kathleen Wainwright survived. George sped off on his motorcycle. She recognised him as a regular customer at the petrol station, but not a chatty or friendly one. Moving up Fairview Road, Ryan found neighbour, Abdul Khan, 84, a retired restaurateur, mowing the lawn in his back garden. He uses it against the people he has grown up with and against the unarmed police that are called. Angela Wrightson: A chaotic life and brutal death. There was a terrible burning pain. Now, as his colleague, quantity surveyor George White, drove him home to check on his wife, they came across Ryan. At 17:25, Ryan threw a semi-automatic rifle from the classroom window. But, although the house was cleaned and modernised and made available for them, they could not bear to return. It was one of the worst mass shootings in British history. Terrified, crying and huddled against the wall, she begged him not to kill her. "[Mr Ryan] was quite the bully. Mr Whiting did not understand. 15 - Ian Playle, Susan Godfrey was shot and killed in Savernake Forest. "In fact, I first thought it was another lad who lived there. She managed to drag herself into her house and survived. It seemed that the guns gave Ryan the feeling of power and control that he had always lacked. It was a good day to spend in the garden - hot and sunny. The speed with which he carried out his agenda indicates an element of forethought. The incident prompted the government to change gun laws, banning semi-automatic and pump-action rifles. News crews at John O'Gaunt School in Hungerford, Berkshire, where Michael Robert Ryan committed suicide following the Hungerford Massacre. They'll do what we did. Michael Ryan went on the rampage through the Berkshire town of Hungerford in 1987 shooting 16 people dead and wounding 14 others. "When you work for the ambulance service, you do your best to help people," Mr Whiting says. At one point, he claimed to have an Israeli fragmentation type hand grenade, which seriously worried the police. Fifteen vehicles were taken away for forensic examination. Thomas Hamilton murdered 17 people in Dunblane in 1996. 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. Dorothy then saw her son with a gun in his hand and called to him, saying, Stop Michael. [CDATA[// >
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