Can anyone give me information on the East house Pub and the tragic incident that caused it's closure in the 1960'???.

Quoted from Sheffield Public Houses by Michael Liversage

'A Somalian named Mohamed Ishmail calmly walked into the 'House' drew a revolver and discharged all six rounds into the customers as they sat around enjoying New Years Day 1960.
Three died almost instantly and two more were seriously injured, one, Donald McFarland was crippled for life. The Somali was caught hiding in the toilets and upon his arrest , stated that he wanted to kill himself but his religious beliefs forbade him from doing so. He thought being that we, the British, would hang him for the crime of murder, therefore fulfilling his desire to die.
Unfortunately, we the British, deported him back to Somalia after six months. A pub talk by local historian Douglas Lamb stated that Ishmail had ran amok when he returned home as was gunned down. Hopefully true, but no definite evidence of this incident has come to light.'

Was Donald McFarland the one who's brother was Killed in the incident and did he come from Hartleybrook???

Can anyone enlighten me, what sort of religion forbids suicide but quite happily allows murder?

good point rainbow !!!!!!!!! didnt think of that

Originally posted by Timbuck
Was Donald McFarland the one who's brother was Killed in the incident and did he come from Hartleybrook??? The answer to that is yes and he drank in the very same pub in the mid 80s when i went there every Sunday.
I heard he died a few years ago.

if you want any information on the shooting of micheal and don macfarlane it would be better to get the facts right from the family members instead of writing any old bull im his great niece and the man was loved by everyone who knew him never a bad word was said about donald so if any of u have any questions i would be glad to answer them and i have taken great offence by what i have read!

There's already a thread on this topic , somewhere . I think it was running about 8 weeks ago and there was quite a heavy post about the shooting at the pub.[ Could be wrong about the time scale of the posts ! ].