7 Years on in Dunblane

[mum2toby]

I know this is a horrific subject, but it was very close to home for me and I just wanted to post to the families affected that your beautiful children are still in our hearts and wish all the best to the children and teachers who survived.

You are still remembered 7 years on and I know a few of us in the community who will light a candle tonight and pray for the lives lost and the lives who were affected.

Thank you very much for posting this.One of the little girls murdered had the same name as my daughter and was born on the same day.I remember getting quite distraught when I saw this on the news.I will always remember her and the other children and teacher.

Mum2toby, how beautiful. They would never be forgotten.

The one I remember most is the chap whose wife had died (of cancer?) and his little daughter had kind of taken over her role - he was left so completely alone. I also remember the news film of all the parents rushing, not believing, hands over mouths, to find out if their babies had escaped.

One of the teachers was local to me (East Lancs) and her family still lives here. There can't have been many communities who weren't affected a bit...what gets into people like that man? Thanks for the reminder, mum2toby.

I was in the National Forest during half term and saw the Flame for Dunblane. It wasn't until then that I realised it had happened before I was a mum - well actually I was pregnant but didn't know it. Seeing the scuulpture brought home the tragedy to me all the more than when it happened.

mum2toby, I hope you don't mind me asking, do you live in or near Dunblane? I was brought up just four miles from Dunblane and couldn't believe such a thing could happen there. I know one of the families whose son was injured and my heart goes out to them and to all the other families affected.

I was having my fetal anomally scan with DS2 when the news broke, the sonographer had the radio on in her room. Those poor families.

Demented - I was brought up 4 miles from and my first home with DP was in Dunblane. Nobody ever talks about there (understandably), it's just always 'there'. I knew one of the little girls killed and I know (haven't seen him for years though) one of the little boys that was injured, but survived.
On a happier note the man (Dr North) whose daughter was murdered after his wife had died of cancer remarried a few years ago.

Glad you started this thread. That evil news from Dunblane affected me more deeply than almost any other reported event. I think about the children and families often and will never forget them.

yes, it is good to remember them; such a sad and awful event...but I know they are all in heaven.

I too thought of all the Dunblane little ones yesterday. At the time I lived just a few miles away and had given birth to my dd just days before. When the midwife arrived she said the news had just got worse and worse as she trvalled round to each of her mums. Like Tigermoth, it has affected me more than just about anything else because it seems the worst imaginable evil.

Thanks for reminding us, mum2toby. I'm from Perth and so it is quite close, and I still remember the sense of shock. At the time I was shocked as I am a teacher and was appalled more from that point of view, as I didn't have any children then. Its only since becoming a parent that I realise a tiny bit more of what they have suffered.
They will never be forgotten.

mum2toby, I don't want to take away from the importance or seriousness of this thread but I hope you don't mind me asking again, the place where you were brought up, was it a village beginning with "D" by any chance? Just nosey, both of us being brough up four miles from Dunblane.

Demented - I think I'm 4 miles in the other direction from you. My village started with B...

Think I know where you are talking about Mum2toby, just being nosy, I don't think I would know you then.