TESTIMONY_GIVER:
  He didn't lose his speech.  It's just that Ryan before the incident was like any other 17-year-old guy.  Popular - you know, he was outgoing, friendly, and after that actually happened not just Ryan, but myself, became very withdrawn.  He - you can hear when he speaks to a person he stutters immensely.  He was extremely intelligent at school, and once that actually happened he left school, and I think that intelligence unfortunately was just overwhelmed by emotions.  Unfortunately he wasn't as lucky as I was, he didn't have a family who was there to support him.  He didn't have - you know, he didn't have a family behind him encouraging him all the way.  Although even if you do have a family behind you in a situation like that there's no one who can come to you and say, "I know what you're going through, it's happened to me before, or it's happened to someone I know."  You know, things like that just didn't happen to white people.  White people just aren't victims of violence.  That was the thing.  And Ryan didn't - I don't think Ryan had all the support I had.  And if you see him today he is - it's a pity that he didn't have that support, because he was truly a marvellous person, and he has been - he's just not the person he was.  He's been scarred with a terrible amount of, I think, torment.