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[gnarskillediv]

The Dunblane Massacre

The "Deadliest Mass Shooting" in British History.

Date:

13th of March, 1996 (9:35-9:40) - The shooting lasted 5 minutes.

Perpetrator:

Thomas Watt Hamilton (TH) 10th Of May, 1952 - 13th Of March 1996, (43 years old). Born in Glasglow, Scotland.

Thomas Watt Hamilton front and centre, surrounded by his victims, in a news report a day after the massacre.

Weaponry:

Two 9mm Browning HP Pistols Two Smith And Wesson M19.357 Magnum Revolvers

Attack Types:

School Shooting Pedicide Mass Murder Murder-Suicide Mass Shooting

Location:

Dunblane Primary School, Stirling, Scotland.

A police officer walks on the grounds of the Dunblane Primary School, Scotland.

Victims:

Victoria Elizabeth Clydesdale; 5 Emma Elizabeth Crozier; 5 Abigail Joanne McLennan; 5 Mellissa Helen Curry; 5 Hannah Louise Scott; 5 Charlotte Louise Dunn; 5 Emily Morton; 5 Kevin Alan Hassle; 5 Megan Turner; 5 Ross William Irvine; 5 Sophie Jane Lockwood North; 5 David Charles Kerr; 5 Mhairi Isabel MacBeath; 5 John Petrie; 5 Gwen Mayor; 45 Brett McKinnon; 6 Joanna Caroline Ross; 5

“We saw a large number of dead and injured children when we arrived,” one first responder said at the time. “They were distributed within the room in various positions. The dead with the injured.”

Timeline

8:15am:

TH was seen shaving ice off his car on Kent Road, Stirling. He left soon after and drove 5 miles to Dunblane. From Kent Road to Dunblane Primary School, it would've taken 16-18 minutes, yet TH took 1 hour and 15 minutes to get there. He had much time to reconsider.

A police officer in the playground of Dunblane Primary School a day after the shooting.

9:30am:

TH intentionally parked his car near a telephone pole, getting out to sever the phone line connected to houses near the school. This was an attempt to make sure the police were delayed as long as possible.

Stuffed animals and bouquets lined the front of the school after the tragedy. “May God take better care of you than this world ever did,” read one of the messages.

9:30am-9:35am:

TH entered the school and headed toward the northwest side of the building, near the gymnasium and the toilets. He fired two shots into the assembly hall stage and into the girl's toilets, hitting nobody.

Meanwhile, in the gymnasium, a class of 29/28 students, along with Gwen Mayor; Teacher, Eileen Harrild; PE Teacher, and Mary Blake; Assistant Teacher, were in the middle of their PE lesson.

"This was an a day I shall not forget. As the newscaster read out the names of those small innocent and unknowing children my son's name - Ross Irvine - was included in that list. My Ross was born on 19th July 1989 and at the time of this awful catastrophe he looked liked any 7 year old,unkempt hair, food around his mouth and that stupid didn't know any different boyish grin. I loved him them and love him even more as he enters his 4th and final year at uni and looks forward to a career with Barclays Bank after a rigorous selection process. Ross Irvine- Dunblane-could have had the same opportunities as my Ross Irvine -but his demise has changed the future of everone else from there on. We, and my my Ross have a lot to thank Ross for. God bless." - Don Irvine, Ross Irvine's father.

9:35am-9:37am:

TH entered the gymnasium and fired immediately, shooting Gwen Mayor, and killing her. Eileen Harrild was shot in the arms and chest, stumbling into an open planned storage cupboard with four other children and Mary Blake, who was shot in the head and both legs.

At the same time, TH moved to the east of the gymnasium, firing six shots at the wall, and whilst walking, turned around and fired eight shots, possibly, at the west side, also. Striding back to the centre of the gym, he mercilessly fired 16 shots into injured children at point-blank range. Another 24 shots were fired in all directions of the gym, including the windows next to the fire exit, and the southeast, at a possible adult in the playground). 4 more shots were fired.

An adult and child heard the loud bangs and screams and went to check what was happening. They looked through the window, causing TH to fire towards them. The glass shattered and injured the child, though none of the two were seriously injured. TH exited the gym through the fire exit. He fired four shots into a library classroom, injuring Grace Tweddle, a member of staff, but not hitting any students inside.

Emma Crozier, who died aged five in the Dunblane Primary School shooting. Her family now advocates against gun violence, having spoken to the parents of some of the children afflicted by the Parkland Shooting.

9:38am-9:40am:

Inside a mobile classroom nearest to the fire exit, Catherine Gordon was teaching her class. She saw TH approaching, bravely shouting for all of her students to get down seconds before he fired 9 shots inside, hitting school equipment, a chair and some books. But no students.

TH turned tail and walked back to the gymnasium. He stood blankly, dropping one pistol and pulling out his revolver, placing the barrel at the back of his mouth, pointing upwards and shooting, killing himself.

Alison Ross’s sister Joanna was one of the 16 children who were murdered.

9:41am:

Assistant Headmistress, Agnes Awlson, alerted the Headmaster, Ronald Taylor, who called the police. He had heard the loud bangs and shots beforehand, saying he "assumed the noises were builders he had not been told about". He felt immeasurable guilt about the situation.

Ron Taylor is still “racked by guilt” 20 years later. “Evil visited us yesterday. We don’t know why.”

9:43am:

Ronald Taylor ran toward the gym, catching a view of what had happened, and told Fiona Eadington, Deputy Headmistress, to call the ambulance.

Charlotte Louise Dunn, "She was always talking about her little brother. And after she moved she wrote to me and would send me pictures of her new life in Scotland."

9:48am:

Stirling Royal Infirmary was informed of a major incident.

Some of the victims are pictured above, most likely the class that was in the gymnasium at the time of the shooting.

9:57am:

The first ambulance arrived at the scene.

“That is the one regret I have, I’d like her mother to have been with her when she died. I’d liked her to have had her mum. That’s an absolute betrayal.” Mhiari MacBeath's mother on the death of her daughter.

10:04am:

A medical team from Dunblane Health Centre arrived.

10:15am:

Stirling Royale Infirmary arrives on the scene.

ONE OF THE PICTURES RELEASED BY POLICE OF THE HOME OF MASS KILLER THOMAS HAMILTON.

10:35am:

Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary arrive, with Doune and Callender's medical teams arriving a few minutes earlier.

Tony Blair lays a wreath outside Dunblane Primary School whilst John Major comforts his wife Norma.

11:10am:

By this time, all injured were cleared and at the hospital.

Gwen Mayor is remembered as an “intelligent, elegant, vivacious and artistic” person.

Summary:

743 rounds of ammo in total. 106 shots were fired. 105 by the pistol. 1 by the revolver. 32 gunshot wounds, all between a three to four-minute time period, 16 of which were inside the gymnasium.

Children with injuries were taken to either the District Royal Infirmary or the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasglow. One child died en route to the hospital.

TH wore shooting earmuffs, telling us that he was still relatively new to firing guns, as he was unused to the noise it generates.

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jack.lowden

The boy fae Dunblane. I grew up watching your matches at Wimbledon on tv in the kitchen. Staying up late into the summer nights after school. Crumpling ma mum’s top from gripping onto her in suspense. Ma Dad doing nervous, muttering loops of the house before every break point. ‘Nut, he’s fucked it’. You echoing that through the tv, the mic picking up you calling yerself every name under the sun at the smallest mistake. And then that grit would kick in. That Perthshire built engine. And the hands on the boy! Those Maradona hands. The touch, the impossible lobs and the ‘get tae fuck see ye later’ angle bending passing shots. And then there was you. That self deprecation & sense of fairness you maintained alongside your unwavering, tetchy, Shankly-esque self belief made me proud of who we build at hame.

Beauty and iron.

But best of all, was watching ye grow from a bairn to man to a God on that grass.

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[househuntingscotland]

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[joinersstirling]

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[lady1505]

It is the 27th anniversary of the Dunblane massacre that tragically killed 16 innocent children and their teacher who tried to protect them. As this is in Scotland where I am from this tragedy is quite close to me and I just hope all the families and friends of these poor innocent people are doing well and I am so sorry for their loss on this terrible day.

But this absolutely horrific crime was the turning point for the UK and gun control and because of this horrendous shooting gun control was stricter and now little to no shootings happen.

Overall I just want to say RIP to the victims and thoughts are with family and friends

[calamitys-child]

God its been almost 30 years since the Dunblane massacre and it still breaks my heart I cannot fathom any country's politics withstanding even one mass school shooting. Jesus christ. The class picture of all those weans absolutely breaks my heart and I can only hope that other places take the same lesson of Never Let This Happen Again.

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[ayeforscotland]

Today marks the anniversary of the Dunblane Massacre, the deadliest mass shooting in British history, which happened on 13th March 1996 in Dunblane near Stirling.

Thomas Hamilton walked into a school with four weapons and killed 17 people - one teacher and 16 children who were about to start PE class in the assembly hall.

The aftermath resulted in the Firearms (Amendment) Act in 1997 which brought in stricter gun control.

For those who've followed this blog for a while, I've mentioned before that my nursery teacher was one of the mothers who lost their child that day. I obviously didn't know it at the time, but I've thought about it ever since I learned that about her. I have never been able to find the words to describe the strength she had in order to surround herself with children that were around the same age as her daughter.

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I think that the nature of the British accelerating jabs against them to mocking the dead is based in cultural jingoism, left over from Empire.

Either way, they act as if they're above it all.

As if Dunblane never happened.

Hell, Future tennis stars, Andy Murray and Jamie Murray were pupils in the school at the time, and managed to survive uninjured.

normally i am the least patriotic guy ever but british ppl insult our food or accents or make jokes about our tragedies and i am frothing at the mouth champing at the bit shaking violently american flags coming out of my ears ok?