AUSTRALIAN MEDIA CONNED BY LAST-MAN-HANGED-ACCOMPLICE IMPERSONATOR
December 23rd 2007 01:14
A top rating radio station, 3AW in Melbourne, was conned by a man pretending to be the accomplice of Ronald Ryan, the last man hanged in Australia.
The radio station ran a lengthy interview with a man pretending to be Peter Walker who was involved in a prison escape attempt with Ryan in 1965, during which a prison warder George Hodson was shot to death, a crime for which Ryan was hanged in 1967.
The fake Walker said Ryan was innocent and could not have shot the warder because his gun was jammed.
The interview was widely reported by other Australian media outlets.
But he also agreed that Ronald Ryan was innocent.
The radio station claimed they had spent a week checking the bona fides of the man before airing the interview.
- From MediaBlab
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