Episode 50 - half a century!

In this episode we cover Ronald Ryan’s hanging and the public outcry that accompanied his execution. We then ask did Ryan really kill prison warder George Hodson?

Check out this excellent 15 minute documentary on the Ryan execution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDyFJqru9UI

Also this website that seeks to prove Ryan's innocence: http://www.ronaldryan.info 

Email me at: jamesdampier.awp@gmail.com 

At 8.00 a.m. on 3 February 1967 Ronald Joseph Ryan was hanged in Pentridge gaol in Melbourne for the murder of a prison officer named George Henry Hodson. He had been found guilty of shooting Hodson with a rifle he had taken off another prison guard while escaping from prison. Ronald Ryan was the last person to be executed in Australia.

Email me at: jamesdampier.awp@gmail.com

On Fathers Day, the 2nd September R 1984, there was a shoot out between two rival motorcycle gangs at a British motorcycle swap meet in the Western Sydney suburb of Milperra. The shoot out had its origin in a bitter split within the Comancheros and Bandidos motorcycle or bikie gangs. At the end of the shoot out seven people were dead,including a 15 year old girl who was just standing by.

Check out the 60 Minutes documentary on the massacre – done in 2014 on the 30th anniversary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nFKnEwU4MI