", 9 September 2009 (UTC)
Purrum, get the story accurate rather than make more false allegations about Opas. You are trying to confuse the ""facts"", as per usual. Truth is, Opas wrote many articles, which have always clearly stated the ""facts"" - that only one single shot was heard by all persons and prison officer Paterson testified he fired one single shot. Also, prison officer Pascoe admitted on national television in 1986 (19 years after Ryan was hanged) that he fired a shot from tower 3, which might have killed Hodson. Pascoe stated that he was a young scared coward at the time for keeping quiet as he didn't want to get into trouble and lose his job. Hence, there has been much speculation over the decades of where the fatal shot was fired from, and by whom. The ""fact"" remains that the police and prosecution failed, for whatever reason, to provide a shred of scientific forensic evidence, which would have proven beyond reasonable doubt who's rifle fired the fatal shot. Nobody's rifle was ever tested. There were lots of prison officers with lots of rifles at the time everyone heard one single shot. Not one single rifle, including Ryan's rifle, was tested for evidence. This is a ""fact"". Purrum should stick to the ""facts"" rather than contribute opinions, views, allegations without substance.   07:52"