{"id":11225,"date":"2011-09-19T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T16:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11225"},"modified":"2011-09-19T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T16:03:49","slug":"hms-astute-seaman-convicted-for-murder-of-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/19\/hms-astute-seaman-convicted-for-murder-of-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>HMS Astute<\/em> seaman convicted for murder of officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Able Seaman Ryan Samuel Donovan has been sentenced to life in prison for his shooting rampage on board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-14971198?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>HMS Astute<\/em> earlier this year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Able Seaman Ryan Samuel Donovan, admitted murdering Lt Cdr Ian Molyneux, 36, of Wigan, Greater Manchester, on board the nuclear submarine <em>HMS Astute<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He also injured a second crewman, Lt Cdr Christopher Hodge, while the sub was docked in Southampton on 8 April.<\/p>\n<p>Donovan, 22, of Dartford, Kent, was told he must serve at least 25 years by the judge at Winchester Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>Donavon of Hillside Road, also admitted the attempted murders of Lt Cdr Hodge, 45, Petty Officer Christopher Brown, 36, and Chief Petty Officer David McCoy, 37<\/p>\n<p>Donovan, who was put on sentry duty despite being drunk, fired six shots from an SA80 rifle in the control room as local dignitaries, including Southampton City Council&#8217;s mayor, chief executive and leader, were being given a tour of HMS Astute, the court heard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After reading about the attack, I posted an entry calling for <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/09\/someone-deserves-a-medal-here\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royston Smith&#8217;s heroism<\/a> to be recognized in the next honours list.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s a civilian, charging a gunman armed with a battle rifle, and disarming him before the trained military personnel could intervene. There are very few people who could have reacted so quickly &mdash; and correctly &mdash; in that situation. That\u2019s heroism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Able Seaman Ryan Samuel Donovan has been sentenced to life in prison for his shooting rampage on board HMS Astute earlier this year: Able Seaman Ryan Samuel Donovan, admitted murdering Lt Cdr Ian Molyneux, 36, of Wigan, Greater Manchester, on board the nuclear submarine HMS Astute. He also injured a second crewman, Lt Cdr Christopher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,5],"tags":[343,30,364],"class_list":["post-11225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-law","category-military","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-navy","tag-submarine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2V3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11227,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions\/11227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}