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The Dunblane Massacre in March 1996 by Thomas Hamilton of 16 schoolchildren remains the most abhorred act of mass murder ever perpetrated in the British Isles. Ten years on, Peter Sotos re-examines Hamilton's life and motives, revealing the sick gay paedophile subculture which spawned this most reviled of killers.
Mick North's daughter Sophie was one of the Primary One children killed in the massacre at Dunblane Primary School in 1996. This personal account of the incident includes a critical assessment of the events that led up to such an appalling crime.
Dunblane Unburied is categorised into anyone of the following genres: crime fiction, poetry and local history.
12 people touched by tragedy ; the families, victims and friends who felt the pain, sadness and hurt of the mass murder in Scotland.
Perfect for fans of 13 Reasons Why. ‘A gripping, eye-opening YA novel that I wish I could put in everyone's hands.’ Pretty Little Memoirs *************************************************************
Dennis Nilsen was one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, jailed for life in 1983 after the murders of 12 men and the attempted murders of many more.Seven years after his conviction, Nilsen began to write his autobiography, and over a period of 18 years he typed 6,000 pages of introspection, reflection, comment and explanation.History of a Drowning Boy - taken exclusively from these astonishing writings - uncovers, for the first time, the motives behind the murders, and delivers a clear understanding of how such horrific events could have happened, tracing the origins back to early childhood.In another first, it provides an insight into his 35 years inside the maximum-security prison...
In her mid-20s, Heidi Williamson was part of a Scottish community that suffered an inconceivable tragedy, the Dunblane Primary School shooting. Those years living in the town form the focus of her third poetry collection. Through rivers, rain, wildlife and landscape, Williamson revisits where 'the occasional endures' and discovers the healing properties of a beloved place that helped form her.
Although historically ignored, crime victims are now very firmly on the map. For politicians, newspapers, the media and the public at large, criminal injury and loss are a source of constant concern and anxiety. Criminologists and media analysts have studied much of this concern in recent years but what has not been investigated is how communities experience high profile crimes and the media intrusion that inevitably follows. This book seeks to address this gap by exploring how the communities of Soham and Dunblane, that witnessed high profile crimes, lived with the tragic events at the time and the attention of the world’s media afterwards. Based on a two-year qualitative study of these communities, this book looks beneath the surface of the relationships, dilemmas and unexpected triumphs of communities struggling to come to terms with the most harrowing of events, within the glare of the media spotlight. Combining empirical observations with media analysis and social theory, this book offers something new to the criminological audience: the concept of the victim community.