Michelle Ryan

Michelle Ryan, you're very welcome to the show.

Today is Tuesday the 2nd of June, meaning tomorrow is the 3rd of the month.

What significance does that date hold for you?

Yeah, well, look, tis like, tis raw.

Like this time approaching 15 years ago, we still had daddy in our lives.

So, you know, today, 15 years ago, we were walking around in our normal lives and in only a few short hours, our lives as we knew it were going to stop and we weren't ever going to have our father back.

We weren't ever going to see him again.

What will you do, if anything, tomorrow to mark that moment?

I generally just kind of stay in my own thoughts and my own memories with him.

I don't visit his grave and that sounds awfully wrong.

But to me, you know, he's not there.

I've always believed and I've always wanted to believe that he's more around us than what he is inside there.

So that kind of, that suits me fine to believe that as well, that kind of thing.

So, Daddy, as you call him, people listening to this will know him as Bobby Ryan or Mr. Moonlight is how most people will probably remember him because Patrick Quirk's murder trial became such a big spectacle.

It's 15 years since he died.

And I'm conscious as well, Michelle, that...

We didn't know 15 years ago, you know, tomorrow, 15 years ago, that he was dead.

There was this period of time where he was a missing person.

Yeah, that's right.

There was, excuse me, there was 22 months, exactly, when he was essentially a missing person.