My eldest boy turned 32 this week. My daughter will be 30 in June. As I wrote my lad’s birthday card I was all too aware there are 32 parents from Dunblane in Scotland, who had children of the same ages but won’t get to celebrate them reaching the landmarks.
A twisted, disturbed man called Thomas Hamilton saw to that. A man who grew up without a father and believing his mother was his sister.
A man rejected by his community as weird and a suspected paedophile. A man who took his revenge by shooting 29 children aged five or six in Dunblane Primary School Gym, killing 16 of them and their teacher Gwen Mayor.
News of the Perthshire tragedy broke at around 11 o’clock on that Wednesday morning of March 13, 1996. I was in a meeting laying plans
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