Rocky Ryan
Deceased Person
1937 – 2004
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Who was Rocky Ryan?
Michael "Rocky" Ryan was a British media hoaxer, who became well known in the UK for providing newspapers with a number of stories that turned out to be completely false. Duncan Campbell writes in The Guardian that Ryan's stories included that the kidnapped racehorse Shergar was alive and well and living in Jersey, and that the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, was being allowed out of Broadmoor to attend discos.
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