Oliver Huntingdon plays a volatile new character, Ryan Bottomley, who sparks a cycle of revenge by shooting and killing the son of a notorious criminal.
Ryan’s character mirrors Michael O’Brien, who was jailed for the fatal shooting of Marvyn Bradshaw outside the Sporting Chance pub in Bulwell, Nottingham, in August 2003.
O’Brien’s intended target was believed to have been Marvyn’s teenage friend, Jamie Gunn, who was in the same car.
Jamie was the nephew of a notorious Nottingham crime boss called Colin Gunn, and died of pneumonia a year later after going into a spiral of decline.
As O’Brien was sentenced in 2004, he shouted abuse at Marvyn’s family who were sitting in the public gallery. The fictional Ryan in Sherwood did the same thing.
