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Wild Man -Alecia Simmonds Crime Book

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Wild Man
Author: Alecia Simmonds
Publisher: Affirm Press
Category: Crime, General
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

In April 2012, on a remote rural property in northern NSW named the School of Happiness, police shot dead Ryan Pringle. Ryan, who was high on a cocktail of drugs and who suffered from mental illness, had been threatening attendees of a hippie festival, known as a rainbow gathering, with a crossbow and hunting knife. When a husband-and-wife police team arrived, they tried to disable him with a taser gun, but ultimately fatal shots were fired.In Wild Man, Alecia Simmonds follows the coronial inquest into this police shooting of Ryan Pringle - the 'Wild Man'. She reveals what really happened that night and unravels the web of issues entangled in the episode: a cultural clash between hippies and rednecks, drug use, mental health and overstretched police services. This spectacular book examines this fascinating, tragic and, at times, bizarre case, and is also a clear-eyed look at some of the most pressing issues in contemporary society.

About Alecia Simmonds
Alecia Simmonds is a regular writer for Fairfax Media's Daily Life and a postdoctoral fellow in law at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her columns have been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Arena, Womankind, and The Guardian. Wild Man is her first book.

GTIN: 9781922213686

Reference ID: 2528655