Dunblane school shooting: 30 years on, Scottish shooting outrage ‘still haunts many’ | UK News
Thirty years after the Dunblane school massacre, Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander has said the tragedy “haunts many of us still to this day”. On 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton shot dead 16 children and their teacher at Dunblane Primary School in central Scotland, before shooting himself. Mr Alexander said he has “deep admiration” for parents affected by the tragedy who campaigned for tighter gun controls. Image: Ross Irvine, one of the victims. Pic: PA Image: Emma Crozier, 5, one of the children who died in the tragedy. Pic: PA A further 15 people, most of them children, were wounded in what remains Britain’s deadliest mass shooting. Mr Alexander said those who remember that day “look back with horror at what unfolded”, recalling images “of parents running to the school gate, the horror of what then emerged”. Image: Children returning to Dunblane Primary School for the first time on 22 March 1996 following the shooting. Pic: PA It was, he said “unprecedented and haunts many of us still to this day”. Amid widespread outrage, a consensus …
