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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Tara Cobham

‘A wound that’s there forever’: Dunblane massacre victim’s sister speaks out on brother’s death

Thirty years after the devastating Dunblane massacre, the sister of one of the young victims has described her enduring grief as "a wound that’s there forever".

Rachael Irvine’s brother, Ross, was a pupil at Dunblane Primary School when, on the morning of 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton entered the premises armed with four handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Within minutes, Ross and 15 other Primary One children, along with their teacher Gwen Mayor, were murdered before Hamilton took his own life. Fifteen others – 12 children and three adults – were also injured in what remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.

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