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Nov 1, 2026
Phil DunnGUEST
So when I acted for Peter Walker, very sad story, actually, and a very interesting story.
Phil DunnGUEST
He'd escaped with Ronald Ryan from Pentridge.
Phil DunnGUEST
Yeah, and I was one of the protesters outside the jail on the day that Ryan was executed.
Phil DunnGUEST
But the... years later when I for Peter Walker.
Kellie SloaneGUEST
You could have...
Kellie SloaneGUEST
In Pentridge Jail in Victoria, they did a beautiful precinct there where they had a little hotel and
Tim WebsterHOST
restaurant.
Kellie SloaneGUEST
You could just revitalise the region for the locals.
Ross StevensonHOST
Greg, 100%.
Ross StevensonHOST
It was Father John Brosnan from Pentridge who gave the last rights to Ronald Ryan before he was hanged.
Ross StevensonHOST
But more importantly than that, his place in history is secured because he did Damien Tardio's reconciliation in grade four.
Ross StevensonHOST
I love the fact that Damien says that to two blokes like us who have no idea on earth what a reconciliation is.
KarinaHOST
And in 1993, 15 months after the abduction and murder, Robert Lowe is arrested in a St Kilda backpackers that he is living in.
KarinaHOST
he's taken to Pentridge Prison in Melbourne, so back when it was operating, and he is awaiting trial.
KarinaHOST
He is also still denying he had anything to do with Cherie's murder, even though they've got the confession.
KarinaHOST
I think he's just a cocky piece of shit.
Wendy FrancisHOST
Now, it's been almost 60 years since Australia carried out its last legal execution.
Wendy FrancisHOST
His name was Ronald Ryan and he was serving a sentence in Pentridge Prison for robbery, but he broke out in December of 1965.
Wendy FrancisHOST
Now, during the escape, a gun was fired and a prison warden was killed.
Wendy FrancisHOST
After 17 days on the run, Ryan was captured.
David LewisHOST
Ronald Ryan was the last man hanged in Australia under the law.
David LewisHOST
He had killed a couple of prison officers in an attempt at an escape out of Curranford's Pentridge Prison or one of the other ones in Victoria.
David LewisHOST
Now, there were questions as to how responsible Ryan was as to the death of both of them.
David LewisHOST
He was certainly there.
Alex FirstGUEST
Well-
Pat PanettaHOST
Is it Pentridge?
Alex FirstGUEST
[laughs] No, in fact, I've gotta tell you a story about this.
Pat PanettaHOST
Right.
Alex FirstGUEST
... a number of years ago now.
Alex FirstGUEST
And I did a documentary, and this was when Darren Hitch was still on the station.
Alex FirstGUEST
So it was an hour-long documentary which I broke up as news reports as well, and I went inside the notorious gaoler gaoler within Pentridge, which was the-
Pat PanettaHOST
Oh, right
Samantha HawleyHOST
Austin, in Australia, the last execution took place in 1967.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[somber music] [crowd cheering] Ryan's execution at Pentridge for the shooting of George Hodson, a prison officer, sparked off a wave of protest.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ryan was to be hung at 8:00, but on this day at least, he was to make his mark in the annals of Victorian justice.
Samantha HawleyHOST
And then over subsequent decades, the death penalty was abolished altogether across the country.
JulieAUDIENCE
1967 he was executed.
JulieAUDIENCE
But in 1965 there was an attempted escape at Pentridge and a warden was shot and killed and Now, there was always some...
JulieAUDIENCE
They weren't too sure whether Ronald Ryan actually did it in the end, but obviously he was executed.
JulieAUDIENCE
And after that, they stopped executions.
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Graeme GoodingsHOST
Yeah, a lot of people are a bit distressed.
Graeme GoodingsHOST
Government.
Graeme GoodingsHOST
Last Australian public execution was at Pentridge Jail, February 3rd, 1967.
Graeme GoodingsHOST
Ronald Ryan was his name, hanged for the killing of a warden.
Denis MullerHOST
And of course, these are matters of serious public interest.
Denis MullerHOST
The last person to be executed here in Australia was a guy called Ronald Joseph Ryan in Victoria in 1967, and he was, he was executed because he was convicted of killing a prison guard during a rather chaotic escape from Pentridge Prison.
Denis MullerHOST
And in fact, it was in Pentridge Prison that he was executed.
Denis MullerHOST
And at that time, as was practice, there were reporter witnesses present, drawn from the media across Melbourne, including the news editor of Radio 3AW, a man called Brian Morley, and it left him and the others with deep psychological scars.
Denis MullerHOST
And 48 years later, in 2015, when there were a couple of Australian men you might remember, uh, about to be executed i- in Indonesia, he wrote an article in the Sydney Morning Herald headed How Ronald Ryan's Hanging Changed Me Forever.
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