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WHO REALLY FIRED THE ONE SINGLE FATAL SHOT ???
Documentary film of Ronald Ryan, the last man hanged in Australia.
The true story of Ronald Ryan, features some of Australia’s best-known actors and interviews with the real-life people who knew Ronald Ryan, those who were directly involved with his capital case, and the political hanging at Pentridge Prison in 1967.
*** Nominated AFI Award for the Best Television Documentary.
Was Ronald Ryan the last man hanged in Australia, guilty beyond reasonable doubt? Was an innocent man hanged?
There were three alleged verbal confessions by Ronald Ryan, saying that he had shot the prison guard. However, NONE of the three alleged confessions were signed by Ronald Ryan. In addition, these alleged verbal confessions were not recorded and therefore, unproven. Ronald Ryan only signed documents saying that he would give NO verbal testimony.
Ronald Ryan was convicted of the shooting death of a prison guard based solely on unrecorded unsigned and unproven allegations of 'verbal confessions. There was a NO scientific ballistic forensic evidence to prove Ryan fired a shot at all, alleged missing pieces of vital evidence that would have cleared Ryan, dire inconsistencies of all fourteen eyewitnesses for the prosecution, only one single shot heard by all witnesses which was fired by another prison guard, from a distance, at an elevated position in a downward-trajectory angle. Ballistic expert testified it was impossible for Ryan to fire at such angles. However, Ryan was found guilty, sentenced to death and hanged on February 3, 1967 at Pentridge Prison in Melbourne.
Ryan always maintained his innocence, that he never made such verbal confessions to any person. There is no factual evidence at all, that Ryan confessed guilt to anybody either verbally, recorded, written or police statement.