Unseen footage of Ronald Ryan, Australia's last man hanged | RetroFocus
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- Опубликовано: 7 янв 2020
- Ronald Ryan escaped from Pentridge Prison in December, 1965, cementing his place in history as the last man to be hanged in Australia, and the catalyst for the abolition of capital punishment.
Using never-before-seen material from film stored in a box at the ABC until 2006, RetroFocus presents the story of Australia’s last execution.
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This is one of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
Are all these Retro Focus short films available as a collection on DVD per chance? Be amazing if they were. Love this kind of stuff. Great content. Thanks for sharing. Watched most of the others too.
Yea i like the musik and love to owen this on dvd like im trying to by blue healers eny one no wer i can get
Once again the humble man gets shafted while the rich and powerful commit far worse crimes and get away with it ..
banksters...
I remember it all too clearly, it was believed the guard was shot from the tower.
Doesn't matter who shot the guard.If you commission a crime and someone dies in the process-then that is murder.Or at least it used to be.
@EL CID Intent has already been established.You're committing a criminal activity already.That's how the law was written back then anyway.The injusctice in Ryan's case is that Walker should've been hanged as well if credibility was to be maintained.
@@nickhanlon9331 in the us maybe, not here
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Very interesting and a great look at the journalism and citizenry of another era. Thanks.
The problem with the death penalty is sometimes innocent or mentally sick people get killed by the state.
That is True .And Verry Important.!
DNA analysis didn`t exist when this film was made,such mistakes can`t be made now.
@@mjh5437: Hey dummy...not all cases have DNA evidence!!!
Back then, we had huge mental health facilities with grounds. Vegetable garderns and some farming to provide healthy food. The grounds had tennis courts and golf courses. All the chronic alcohol addicts went into care for winter to be warm. It was a different world.
@Nic Ways But people do kill the most innocent.
I remember the hanging as a child. And was very disturbed by it. The man who said they should be focusing on the people who murder kids was spot on. Ryan was the last man killed and it was political. Nothing to do with sickos who continued to abduct and murder children. Most people didn't want a bar of it after that, It was used for political means. It would have been a different story if it was a child killer.
Fascinating to hear Australian accents from the 60's and to hear the word 'forenoon' which I guess we have now dropped. Thank you for uploading this.
the Australian accent has changed a lot in recent decades , and not for the better in my opinion !
Australia was a fairer country back then .
The accents changed when people stopped fully pronouncing words with a break between and would join words together. example whachadointomorra, whereyagoin, trainillbeersoon etc
Is there a difference between morning and forenoon? I think not. Another old term was cockcrow which was the dawn before the sunrise.
we sound so polite
Very interesting to hear 1960s Australian accents. Very ‘Australian’ for sure. I would guess that with American television in Australia changed us?
Watching a grieving mother is always grieving, heart wrenching and tumultuous. 😔
Back in the days when the ABC was in touch with the opinions of average people lol.
Exactly the same can be said of the BBC in the UK !!
Yes when they were actually doing their jobs instead of giving their opinions.
Yes, I agree, the ABC in Australia is the World's best TV network.
@@jackbrumby1892 What for giving air time to a jihadi??
@@jackbrumby1892WAS,maybe
That reporter looks not a day past 14 but sounds 65..
A lot of pentridge guards were no better or even more crooked than the prisoners !
One shot heard by all witnesses. Guard admits to firing one shot, yet Ronald Ryan is framed and executed with no evidence of guilt. The gun was not examined at all to see if it had even been fired. Ryan would have needed to be over 8 foot tall in order for the trajectory of the bullet to match him being the shooter. The guard who admitted to firing a shot knew it had to have been his gun that killed his colleague Hodson who had run after the escapees. Ryan and Hodson we're good friends and they played cards together often. Ryan had no reason to shoot him as this was not any prison guard chasing them. The guard who fired the shot committed suicide 3 weeks later. But our Premier Bolte didn't care if Ryan was guilty. He was going to execute him either way. Since then a bridge has been named after him. We should demand that and any other honours bestowed on Bolte be withdrawn. He was making an example of Ryan because of politics. He wanted to be re-elected and saw this as an opportunity to appear to be tough on crime. Then to top all this injustice off Ronald Ryan's family were never permitted to visit his grave inside Pentridge Prison. Yet, somehow the daughter of Hodson, Carole Price (nee Hodson) took it upon herself to dance on the grave of Ronald Ryan. What a horrible person she turned out to be. She also campaigned to have Ryan's remains keep where they were after the prison was closed. Probably so she could dance on his grave at will. She is a good example of why blind trust in the justice system is a very bad thing. And an even bigger reason that politicians should have zero control of the punishment of criminals. Their decisions are solely based on political outcome, not justice.
Politicians are worse than the jailbirds imo.
@@JohnPereira-nl7hu yeah they totally are. Bolte is essentially a murderer.
@@fab3laundry
Welcome to a slave camp run by Freemasons.
Ryan confessed to shooting the officer just before his hanging. .
@@antoniafenech8279 Really?Where did you get that from?
Ignoring all the controversy, this is a lovely snapshot of Melby back then. Streets of Preston, the clothes and hair, cars and footpaths.
To speak to his mum, that's gold, I would say the only time ever, what a strong woman.
Melby.wtf.🙄🙄
Aussie women of that time were tough as old boots but as gentle as a lamb if u were their kid. Lovely old gals
They were born around ww1 and ww2. Life we can’t even imagine.
It's nice that you included actual news bulletins, protest footage and street interviews from the era. It gives you insight to what the actual environment was like at the time. Public opinion seemed pretty polarised on the issue, much like it is today.
Most of the warders knew who fired the fatal bullet and it wasn't Ryan. The warder that spent the last night with Ryan before his execution ended up an alcoholic, laying drunk in the street outside his house in Newmarket. The guilt of knowing Ryan was innocent must have weighed heavily on a lot of warders minds.
Yeah. It was because he knew that Ron Ryan was innocent. so, they did have a conscience after all. He was just a small-time crim, He didn't need hanged, just for Bolte's Political benefit. Thats all Ronald Ryan really died for. It was just a display of power at the time.
I Totally agree with you, very good point 👍
WALKER WAS A DANGEROUS PSYCHPATH
Probably didn't
Great sound design!!! really brings the footage alive.
"Thank you for the upload 💘 Watching from NSW Australia."
Man! Ron Ryan's mum was a tough cookie, they don't make em like her anymore. Catholic church is hard to live in but easy to die in.
Troy Kiernan I know! Her son was due to hang in the morning and at one point she was laughing and joking with the interviewer.
The black cat in the intro surprised me.
my now deceased dad wept once, telling us about this murder by a battling government. an absolute Australian disgrace. the hanging was on the radio. and the hate-mongers and frantic politicians get gradually worse.
As an 8 year old child, my sister & myself were sat infront of the radio to hear the execution of Ronald Ryan play out😢
@@kerryhart9418wow
No overweight people in those days!
No bulging health care system either
Plenty of middle aged beer bellys mate
Or asians
Wish I was around in the 60’s, they speak so well, internet hasn’t dulled everything yet, opinions are intellectual and actually valued back then..now, you can post an opinion whenever you darn well feel and wherever.
Very interesting. One can wonder if a prison guard held a secret for years. Given that no casing or bullet was ever found, the case was dirty from the start. I also wonder if Bolte was a witness to the hanging. My opinion is that he should have been. Ultimately, he was the one that influenced and pushed the 'no-commutation' of the sentence.
The 1966 film "Hawaii" was playing at the Athenaeum in Collins Street.
It’s quite absurd how Ryan was hanged knowing now that he couldn’t have possibly killed the prison guard from where he was standing. The bullet came from an elevated angle and not from ground level . very unjust ruling . Can I also say that I am totally against the death penalty
The death penalty must be applied to the murderers who kill the people who want to live. It is wrong to steal a human life. Thou Shall Not Murder
@@elisabethdakak878 For some (child molesters and killers) the Death Penalty is a Too Easy way out of Real Punishment. Capital Punishment doesnt put any Fear &Fright into a Psychopath. So it doesnt work in means of ,,Setting Excamples,, I know Humanity cant go back to Medival Times ....But for some, Bread&Water, Chained and Chackled the rest of their lives on an abandonned Island is the Best and Cheapest Way to protect Us as a Society.
@@Hanzey1966 I was savagely and repeatedly indecently molested as well as assaulted every day for the first 16 years of my life after being adopted at birth by a 'high profile' offender. For the next 26 years I led a life in the wilderness of the most profound cyclical psychiatric symptoms, substance abuse, emotional dissociation and relationship failure, unable to establish the most basic of interpersonal professional and social connections which anyone's existence is reliant upon. These crimes left me without a family or an ability to have children of my own, itself the very deepest and irredeemable sadness of my entire life.
It took an 11 year campaign of the most dedicated personal advocacy upon my behalf against Victorian law enforcement, prosecutorial, judicial and political resistance which resorted to and thus required me to overcome the institutionalised criminal perversion of justice in order to bring my childhood torturer to justice in July of 2021. He pleaded guilty to all of the numerous charges brought against him but by which time his advanced age and declining health meant that from the outset of his criminal trial it was known by all parties that regardless of outcomes, he would never serve a day's jail for the perverted and cruel crimes which catastrophically and irretrievably altered my entire life.
In the period directly before his trial the appointed State prosecutor asked me what would be an appropriate sentence if a guilty verdict were secured. My reply, after many decades of the most considered and personally experientially informed thought, was that at the time of sentencing the presiding Magistrate should direct one of the Court's Protective Services Officers to surrender his sidearm to the Court's custody with a single round within its chamber, after which my childhood torturer and I should be taken to one of the adjacent Court meeting rooms and this weapon given to me at which time I would have unhesitatingly used it to instantly end his life. In stating this after acknowledging my full awareness that this would never occur, I explained how even if it did, it could never come near to providing a penalty which was remotely proportionate to what this person's crimes had stolen from me and which could never be retrieved and that because of this systemic deficiency my investment with the criminal justice process ended at the time that a guilty verdict were achieved and that whilst I would participate in the sentencing process, I had no expectations whatsoever invested in it, purely to protect myself from becoming a victim of its deficiencies as well as indeed so many others are. I secured my guilty verdict and walked away attempting every day since to put those events behind me for the relatively limited days I now have remaining to me in this life, whilst spending my days trying to help others stuck in that awful inhumane place I once was, to find the justice I now have, albeit most inadequate.
In my lifetime I've heard many people speak about the issue of capital punishment, many of them using very academic and therefore entirely detached 'arguments' against it, but none of these individuals ever had any personal skin in the 'game', which is indeed what it is to them, a 'game' predominantly of moral self-aggrandisement. A vast majority of those of us who survived such crimes, indeed do feel very differently because we have paid the price we have with every day of our existences after these crimes occurred, whilst those who protest against capital punishment for an hour here or a day there spend the overwhelming majority of every other day enjoying their own lives unfettered by these issues other than when they choose to engage with them for whatever reason, often to portray themselves as 'merciful' or 'virtuous' rather than incredibly ill-informed and far removed from the realities of the issues that lie at the core of such a debate. It is one solely of justice and specifically proportionate punishment for crimes which impart the most profound lifelong impact to innocent victims. Such matters as 'social enlightenment', 'morality' and 'mercy' have no place whatsoever being weighed against actions which were devoid of 'social enlightenment', 'morality' and 'mercy' at the time they were freely and deliberately embarked upon.
@@elisabethdakak878 Thou Shall Not Murder. And Two wrongs do not make a right.
How than do you suppose we deal with criminals who commit acts so heinous that they are beyond any form of rehabilitation, just keep them locked up forever? Based on what principles? Execution is not only necessary, it's a moral imperative.
I remember a colleague who was a Police Detective telling me his most terrifying experience in the force, was as a passenger in a Studebaker Lark heading to the jail, doing over 90 mph up Swanston St, battling tram lines and traffic , knowing that when they had to turn a corner the brakes on these cars nowhere matched the engine.
I think this is a terrific example of how bad "our ABC" has become in its reporting. Both sides able to voice their opinion; something we certainly do not see today..
Well, this Scotsman lived in Australia in the 1980' & 1990's. I found it to be a nation of smashing people who would always give you a fair go. Nations have to go through these difficult transformations & Australia has surely done this as good, or even better than most. Thank you for this most excellent documentary & showing the wider world that we always need to confront difficult issues in a humane manner. It seems to me that this man was hanged unfairly, but I may be wrong? Massive respect for The Australian people for voicing their concerns & opinions on a sad & unfortunate situation. Also, my thoughts go out to the prison officer who lost his life & his loved ones.
You are absolutely correct that Ryan was hung for a crime he did not commit. It was friendly fire by his colleague who weeks later committed suicide.
What a nice positive comment Keith. Thanks for sharing that.
I watched a show awhile ago on foxtel. It was proven he was a innocent man. When they used today's technology. The angle of the bullet ..it was the screw in the other tower bullet that hit and killed the other screw
will this be screened on tv? I would like to tape it for future reference.
Why not download it? Google RUclips recorder and there is programs u can use to download any yt video.
Bolte was the real criminal
Notice that Ryan's mother misspoke and referred to him as Mr Guilty.
People of Bolte's ilk make me feel physically sick.
and Ryan - or any criminal or prisoner, the victim right?
They should rename the bridge after Ryan’s mother.
@@JohnPereira-nl7hu
He'd definitely be a Trumper today.
Love the old cars in this video.
Well done! Like this story very much, i was 16 at the time and remember the case well....
14:04 Young girl calls out "Hang him!" , "No don't hang him!"
It's advisable to attend these events with helpful friends.
They wanted to hang the man that killed Ebony Simpson, which was after they stopped using hanging.
Mob mentality.The most ghastly part of this whole debacle is that a politician has influence over the outcome of a sentence.
The denouement is far too long. But the image of the pigeons taking flight from the dome will haunt me for a very long time.
Very interesting footage, surprising the electronic soundtrack matches it : D
ABC NEWS - " the decision to hang Ryan took 45 minutes this morning over a cup of tea ,some freshly baked scones with raspberry jam and cream. Once that was consumed, the secretary came in with a beautiful tray of club sandwiches and sausage rolls. With such a beautiful spread ,several members managed to find suitable paper bags to fill remaining club sandwiches to take home to their families. Perhaps something to chew on while listening to the hanging.There was some discussion on the preseason selection of the Melbourne Footy team and it's chances in this years competition. Though further discussions had convinced the majority of the committee, that Richmond and Geelong had the best chance of making this years Grand Final. A few members beg to differ and several bets were taken with all members witnessing handshakes. The whole committee were in good spirits when seen leaving the building.
Uncle Rupert: Vote who I say or else
how very sad 😔
You can tell the people of Melbourne did not want this execution to go ahead back in the day. You only have to look at the footage is that amazing look back at yesterday and the way people were and how they felt and it was all over Melbourne for sure if not the state of Victoria
Innocent until proven guilty - byond all reasonable doubt?? Not in Victoria, not in Australia, not even in 2020.
Certain categories of crime require the onus of proof to be inverted.
@@dzignbloc5011 Tell me more plz
@@dzignbloc5011 asset seizure is the only one .... you have to prove .. beyond a reasonable doubt thats how you got assets money etc .. police only have to prove .. on the basis of probabilities you didnt .. they use past history , patterns of offending ... if you sold 3cars ten yrs ago you got to prove it .. so you got prove 100% how you got .. they got to prove 50.01% you didnt ... only law which onus is inverted ....
Especially not in the 2020s!
They found out later Ryan did NOT do it. Oh well!!! another innocent man killed.
Nonsense, Ryan admitted to the shooting. Do you research or lisyen to your drunken crim mates at the pub.
@@jacquesdemorton5871 Maybe you need to get out of the pub. Ryan never confessed.
He confessed to his priest and the warden. Low life crims like you love to make heroes of thieves and shitbags. How many years have you done?
@@jacquesdemorton5871 The priest was Father Brosnan and he would never say what was said by Ronald Ryan in his Confession .
@@jacquesdemorton5871 Michael stole the words from my typing fingers. A priest can't disclose a confession. Stop pulling BS out of your arse or post some independent facts to support your claims. FACT: We don't know conclusively that Ryan didn't shoot Hobson, but it appears highly unlikely. FACT: The cops claimed Ryan confessed to them. This has never been verified and the Cops were under enormous pressure from Bolte down to get Ryan to the gallows. I mean, wow, Cops have never verballed anyone have they? (Boom boom) FACT: Ryan NEVER confessed publicly and maintained his innocence to the end. FACT: No ballistics was done to determine which gun fired the fatal shot. Why? Shoddy police work? Could be, or maybe the police and prison weren't keen to share with the public that a warden actually fired the fatal shot? We don't know for sure.
I was 13cowhen Ryan hung and was born in London, clearly remember on TV the night before he hung, reporters were talking to Ryan's mum outside the prison.
I bet most thought Ryan wouldn't hang as the last execution was in 1951.
Bolte obviously had his pride hurt after the last person to hang was reprieved .
No doubt the political pressure on the police to get Ryan on a capital offence was huge and it really didn't matter if it wasn't him.
A warder shooting another warder would have been a political embarrassment no doubt.
Theres an interview floating around with Peter Walker as an older man after her got out. Worth a watch.
The guard could not have been killed by Ryan. He died as a consequence of the escape but the escapees did not put the bullet in him
That was good, especially the old b/w film. I like the way To also Ryan wore his hat compared to the detectives.
Thank you ABC for this documentary 💯✅
An excellent watch.
This, from 1967, in vintage B&W with the clothes and the cars and the slick Derby Ryan's wearing while being escorted, cuffed between two Palooka cops. It's all good but OMG. On the day they're gonna hang him that interview with his mother blows my mind. Her comportment & composure. You can't make that up and I can assure you if that was my mother it'd be mind blowing. She would've been outta her mind and it would be money guns & lawyers. Or the 'jail break' and either way there's no way I'd hang. Anyways, this in 1080p is BETTER than it was in 1967. Even if you were there watching it yourself on any B&W and the way the interviews were conducted this is classic/authentic 1967. I think this documentary is FANTASTIC and I don't even know how I got here but I'm glad I did
As an aside, I have a question for my Aussie brethren. When did Color broadcasting begin down under? I'm thinking surely before 67 and yet this is broadcast in B&W. Which means is was 'recorded' in B&W. I wonder why? Not everybody had a Color TV in 67. I know we didn't but EVERYTHING was recorded in Color. If you had a B&W television a color broadcast just came through in B&W. So when did Australia first start recording/broadcasting in Color? And as an aside I hope you kangaroo hugging world class sailboat loving Aussies have a g'day
Color TV came to some Australian cities in 1975. A lot of outback towns didn’t even have TV at all, when I was working at Mt Isa, a town of 20,000 in 1970, we didn’t even have B&W TV until late that year.
1975 , I remember the wonder of watching Hey Hey Its Saturday in colour .... our first telly was a Blaupunkt .... in the 60s in small towns a lot of our parents didnt even have a TV or a phone
We used to all go to the friends house who had the TV and sit around all together watching it
Now we are so civilised we cannot punish our criminals, the youth are running wild, bashing and stealing, and going into youth detension is a badge of honour for them , and governments try to extend a murders sentence that a judge originally sentenced years before, and if capital punishment was still law, society would not have to pay the enormous cost to keep them in jail for life, and would not have to worry about them again.
Could only imagine the bashing they would got when they got back to the prison
Surprised they even made it to the noose
Wtf are you on about? And 27 people gave you a like for a nonsensical comment? Wow.. Have you even been to pentridge? Or any prison for that matter? I think its safe to assume not. Why people say stuff like you did is beyond me. You shouldn't speak about things you know nothing about.
Tell me who do you think would've "bashed'" him and why? Im curious to know what someone like yourself would pressume.
@dee gee, you can’t be that naive surely
The execution of Ryan was, in my opinion, unjust given the many prior commutations to life imprisonment without parole - Premiere Bolte allowed his pride to over-ride good reasoning - he simply wanted to have the final say so.
It was more about henry bolte ego , These politicians and public servants never change through history. Their darkest sides reveal themselves. Once they know they have the power they behave atrociously because of their egos and their public servants.
the day Ronald Ryan escaped my dad was in the city with his best mate, they were two firefighters in uniform and on duty, and the cops grabbed my dad and pinned him to the ground, accusing him of being Ronald Ryan and were going to shoot him
@Donnell Okafor what tf would you know, really, unless you were there, or NOT🤪
The public were so squeamish when it came to capital punishment, someone had to make the harsh decision & and that someone was the Hangman
The judge made that decision,the hangman did the hanging.
Bolte made the decision, for political advancement
It was all about a bloody minded premier and his need to prove himself. It should not have happened.
I think that because in escaping they were committing a felony and somebody was killed as a result they were legally held responsible and it was classed as murder, regardless of who pulled the trigger.
The ABC should do more canvassing of public opinion on the streets
@Sam Thomas but it wouldn’t suit their agenda!
@Brewster Jeff yep they think Daniel Andrews is the lord and saviour.
They canvass the opinions of their own staff in Ultimo, that's about it lol.
Interesting that the poor chap who was killed didn’t get much of a mention. Still an interesting look back to those days.
So, the ruling class can never be adequately punished for their crimes against ordinary citizens?
Power of the people, versus the statute, rules, and regulations of the state.
Ryan had no escape from the state criminals
I was ten years old at the time and lived in a Murray River border town.I remember the media had me scared to go outside when Ryan and Walker were on the run.
I wonder where all those who decided to hang another human are now? What would their exuse have been if they had to answer to a higher power after they left this world?
Don’t take credit Hamer other Australian States had done it before Victoria. You were a yes man for Bolte at the time
And South Australia and Western Australia didn't abolish the death penalty until after Victoria did - so what's your point ??
i was a kid listening to the radio when he was hung...strangely i knew somehow that it was wrong and i was very sad...later when i looked at the life of ned kelly i felt the same.
This was an interesting history lesson 👍
This is truly a lesson in social justice and law. It can never be a good thing to take another man's life. Particularly if there is the slightest doubt. It appears that there may have been some doubt about who fired the deadly shot. It is quite confronting that without the bullet or the cartridge ever being found he was still found guilty. We may never really know the truth of what happened for certain.
I remember that day very clearly..
If you haven't seen it you gotta find it. An ABC In-Depth from 1961 'Should the BIKINI be banned?' Gee, uh, I dunno but it's absolutely fall out of TF chair ROTF floor hilarious
and they need to bring back the hangings too many paedophiles and murderers walking free on the streets
i need to come back and visit you. sleep with one eye, open.
undertheblade1 Totally Agree! 💕👍🏻💕
Even amongst all the Kaos of escaping, Ryan managed to get a hat and walker looked like he spent all morning on his hair. Loved seeing them been taken away in a brand-new HD Holden. I was only 4 almost 5 at the time and can still remember everyone being worried where they will turn up next.
Sir Henry Bolte had to much power, so many disagreed with this Arragant Premier.
I think Ronald Ryan was set up, yes a man with a bad past, but I really do question whether he fired that fatal shot.
I was 17 at the time now 73 remember it well.
Love the old HD cop car
Mossburg 12ga in the boot
I thought Edgar Cooke was the last man hanged???
Edgar Cooke was the last man hanged in Western Australia,,, there is a book called broken lives by Estelle Blackburn about Cooke,,,,
I thought judges decide the penalties, not politicians?
Very interesting doc, I was a small child at the time so didn't know the story
The early hour of half past eight???
It's the middle of the night for me.
We do know that he was not guilty, government of the day is to blame
The evidence in this case is dubious to say the least
A prime example of how "Justice" should be left to the Judges and the Courts and taken from the hands of politicians.
Politicians write the laws, the Courts and Judges should be left to enforce them. "Politics" should play no part in sentencing.
"Mandatory Sentencing" has no place in a justice system. Judges must be free to show discression if they so deem.
Lol
Mandatory sentencing led to the twelve month sentence of a teenager in the Northern Territory when their third offence was stealing a towel off a washing line because they were cold. Mandatory sentencing is an embarrassment to civilised society and harks back to the days of flogging prisoners for stealing a loaf of bread.
I was 14 at the time Ryan hanged. I remember seeing the protesters with their tiki torches in the night on the steps of Parliament when I came out of the cinema that in those days was at the top of Bourke St near the corner of Spring st, having watched Dr. Zhivago. Later, on the actual day of execution I was back at school after the holidays. He was hanged during a meal in the dining hall . We all knew the exact time when he was going to be executed. Every boy counted the time down to the very second and each boy at this particularly large long table laughed and gagged as if pulling an imaginary rope upwards from around their necks. That’s the way things were. I wonder if boys of that same age today would behave in quite the same way. Probably not. Perhaps we were the products of a brutalised society that condoned capital punishment. Looking back I don’t think Ryan himself should been hanged given the actual circumstances of the crime. Sir Henry Bolte was a pig. I used to be against capital punishment but after so many brutal and sadistic murders such as that of poor Anita Cobby and the disgusting Murphy’s creek murder of two hitchhiker girls, the Bega school girls not to mention the fiend Milat, I’m all for bringing it back.
The black cat brought bad luck apparently.
I remember that Ryan and Walker passed through my home town in their stolen car, and a local saw them.
25:50 That lady makes a lot of sense
Love the mucik whats the name
Mucik! No such word
With a name like he has he has got to be innocent!!
You made me lost some air reading your comment :v
I was talking about Ronald Ryan last night on tik tok could that be why this story suddenly appears in my feed?
Perhaps the ABC might do a story on Pentridge Prison today?
I believe it was developed for another housing purpose?
Music was added later i have a hunch.
Why would you tell the whole bloody story in the present tense? It happened 50 years ago?
And why do we have to read it? Are you too cheap to pay for a narrator?
When Australians spoke properly
Yeah on Aboriginal Land
there's criminals who go around gunning down their sister cousins and nephews and nieces like reality why should they be escaping capital punishment just cause they dropped the ball on Ryan's case cause they didn't want to publicly acknowledge the police shot their own on accident. when innocent people are punished that's not right. but when bad people are unpunished they aint right neither
How did they drop the ball,this just popped up in my recommendations for some reason
I was in the public gallery to witness Ryan being sentenced to death and it seemed obvious from questions the jury asked of the judge that they didn't want to convict the younger more attractive Peter Walker. Ryan was a smallish nondescript bloke you wouldn't notice in the street, whereas Walker was young with his hair dyed blonde as a disguise. It's also interesting that Walker wasn't hanged for his cold blooded murder of a man in a toilet block before he was recaptured, not that I think he should've been, any more than Ryan should've been.
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He was always adament he didn't pull the trigger. None the less somebody was killed because of their actions. The ways' society executes a person is barbaric, even with lethal injection. If their cell was sealed and nitrogen was used they would simply go to sleep and not wake. They wouldn't even need to be informed. Same as people in a depressurised jet. No pain, no panic or distress.
Liam Murphy ,unlike their victims.
@@banjopete watching somebody being painfully put to death doesn't fit well with me regardless of who they are and what they have done. If it has to happen then it needs to be humane and private with an absolute minimum number of necessary people present. otherwise a part of them will live with us.
remember this well ,always believed in ryans innocence even visited his grave.he was set up through bolte.pity the people who tried to assinate bolte missed .
There was an assassination attempt on Bolte??
You'd think it would be very easy with ballistics, even in 1965, to determine which gun killed Hodson. I've always suspected it was from another warden.
The bullet that killed Hodgson was never found, since it passed through his body, hence no ballistics.
45,000 pounds!! wowee that's no petty theft. it's not like stealing a bag or bread that's major theft. I was curious why he was sentenced to 8 years for burglary but 45,000 my goodness that's no small change lol
Still did make him sb who wurder "murder with intent" later, does it?
Who should be HANGED?
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Harr And if you watched the entire documentary you would actually know the reason why they decided to hang him wasn't for burglary - he got 8 years for that. Clearly the reason was because 1) he escaped prison 2) another security guard shot and the bullet fatally struck another security guard 3) therefore not wanting to make the police look reckless and for punishing those who escape jail and put police in such compromising dangerous situation they wanted to make an "example" out of him! Which was Why I specifically stressed instead of arguing "morality" his lawyer should've argued the technicality and how it wasn't him who pulled the trigger using evidence like the gun at the scene of the crime and the gun used by the polices to exonerate him from a crime he didn't do! Logic try some
You,'re right.The specifics Were Important.
But I Had Watched.
Don' t sound so bloody judg""mental", even if u think urself a failed LawyerThanks in advance!
Harr Judging from your lack of proper spelling and grammar I suspect you suffer from illiteracy. Judging from your videos of cats and another profile with cat in the username you suffer from multiple personality disorder and talk to yourself like a looney cat lady
You ARE OF COURSE ONLY PLANKS SHORT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN SYNDROMEps I adore cashaven 't got one thoughMaybe she would teach me "proppa gramma"Insufferable FOOL!!!!!!!!
I was 16 at the time. Remember it well.
wonder what happened to the couple (?) @ 24:25
Yea scripted and fake
Wow just wow. Hanging is sadistic n inhumane.
Thank you so much 👍💯
So is murder that his been perpetrated on its victims in some of the most grotesque manner.let's not forget that prison guard wouldn't be going home to his family!
@@sebgiannini7864
I understand all that. I don't agree with the death penalty, it's too easy n why should mum loose a child when she's innocent. You need to put yourself in their shoes. What if it was someone in your family that you loved.....that's always a different story ay!
Anyway there's no proof he shot the guard, a tower watch man saw three people running n shot one. Did you watch this?
Too many people have been found innocent after executed. Nar it's wrong.
Bye 👋
@@justsandra71 INDEED
YOU RE SO RIGHT
@@justsandra71 so do you have proof that he didn't do it, lets not forget he was a criminal serving time for felony robbery, then makes a prison break while attaining a guards rifle.I don't understand you flawed logic, somehow we are to feel sorry for this prisoner.the reality is if there had been no prison break the guard would have not been shot period, he was a accessory to the fact.
@@sebgiannini7864
Look person, go back n bloody listen PROPERLY.
Pentridge is now a housing estate. They’ve kept the bluestone walls and towers.
Emptiness Form .....that’s like the ending to the film ‘Walkabout’, the bricks of the buildings representing oppressive constraint.....after she, Jenny Agutter, had experienced the freedom of the Outback. Marvellous
@@drinkwater319 Possibly my favourite childhood movie, and the cause for a life-long crush on Jenny.
Such inane makeshift moral selfishness , caught in the cross fire , the wrong man gets hanged.
Crumbs, how many blokes does it take to hang one geezer ???? Only took two to do Epstein in a New York Prison !!!!!
The studies by scholars from colleges such as Emory University, University of Houston, and the University of Colorado demonstrate that the death penalty deters homicides. Between four different studies, it has been shown that for each murderer put to death, between 3 and 18 homicides are prevented.Apr 19, 2013
@Donnell Okafor research it
Its fact