Crimes That Shocked The World by Danny Collins

Author:Danny Collins [Danny Collins]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782192114
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2012-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

PC Roger Brereton was a traffic officer on patrol in his police car when he heard the report of the shootings in South View. Although detailed to traffic duties and unarmed, PC Brereton turned his car in that direction and drove to intercept the gunman, his radio alive with messages of caution from the police control centre and warning of Ryan’s indiscriminate firing against civilian targets. As the red, white and blue traffic patrol car turned into South View, Ryan struck a pose in the middle of the narrow road and emptied a nearly full magazine through the windscreen. Twenty-three bullets entered the car and PC Brereton was hit four times, one of the bullets passing through his neck and causing a fatal wound.

The police car zigzagged along the road before crashing into a telegraph pole as the dying officer managed to gasp out a radio message that he had been shot and requested assistance before he choked on blood and died. Unperturbed and still grinning insanely, Ryan turned his assault rifle on to a car driven by Linda Chapman who had just turned into South View with her daughter, Alison. Mrs Chapman was hit in the shoulder and her daughter sustained a wound in the upper thigh. Screeching to a stop at the sight of the grinning gunman dressed in combat gear, Mrs Chapman threw the car into reverse and roared back out of South View, managing to drive her car to the house of a doctor, where she crashed into a tree. Both women survived their wounds.

Not so fortunate was 84-year-old Abdur Khan who was working on his garden that bordered South View. Ryan casually shot him over the fence with the Kalashnikov and then fired at Alan Lepetit who was standing near an ambulance parked on the corner with the main Fairfield Road. Both the female ambulance attendant and Lepetit were slightly injured. As the ambulance drove hurriedly off, a car containing the husband of earlier wounding victim, Marjorie Jackson, turned into South View driven by Ivor Jackson’s friend George White.

Marjorie Jackson had telephoned George White soon after her near escape from death at Ryan’s hands and White had in turn called Marjorie’s husband, but the reason the two men drove into South View is unclear. The quick-fingered Ryan killed George White and seriously injured Ivor Jackson, who feigned death after their vehicle crashed into PC Brereton’s police car.

Amid all the confusion, Ryan’s mother, Dorothy, who had been out shopping that fateful morning, turned her car into South View and surveyed the scene, aghast. George Jackson’s car rested against the crumpled rear of a police car, the street was hazy with the mist and reek of cordite and her son stood in the road brandishing an assault rifle while behind him three homes, including her own, stood burning. This was her son, her little Michael, upon whom she doted. What had gone wrong while she shopped?

Dorothy Ryan climbed out of her car which she had parked behind George White’s wrecked Toyota and approached her son, calling to him to ‘stop his nonsense’.

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