by admin | Mar 13, 2024 | Shootings
On 13 March 1996 Thomas Hamilton, 43, entered Dunblane Primary School near Stirling in Scotland and committed the worst ever recorded murderous act on children in the UK. Studying mass gun killers is not a simple science but can their ultimate actions be predicted....
by admin | Mar 13, 2024 | Shootings
Mass shootings always get our attention and whilst we are not subjected to the horror of this crime on a frequent basis in the UK many of us can relate to past events that have become established in our history. Hungerford 1987, Dunblane 1996 and Cumbria 2010. Some...
by admin | Feb 7, 2024 | Shootings
At around 7.00 pm on the 28 November 2004 Veronica Wilson answered the door bell to her home in Crescent Road in Nairn, Scotland. A stocky male she later described as aged 35 – 40 wearing a dark jacket and a baseball cap was stood on the doorstep. He asked to...
by admin | Nov 27, 2023 | Shootings
The Mumbai massacre took place in India exactly 15 years ago on 26 November 2008. It left 166 people dead and 300 wounded. The attack presented a ghastly insight into the planned and coordinated use of small arms by fanatical terrorists and served to reveal the utter...
by admin | Apr 11, 2023 | Shootings
Raoul Moat was a brutal murderer and criminal but a weak and cowardly character who ended his own life in front of police officers containing him on the banks of the River Coquet in the town of Rothbury in Northumberland on 10 July 2010. It was during the preceding...
by admin | Mar 31, 2023 | Shootings
When I wrote a feature two years ago about the August 2007 killing of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool nobody could never have imagined that history would repeat itself on exactly the same day fifteen years later. On the evening of the 22nd August 2022...
