This appeared to be a reference to the Dunblane massacre, in which 16 children and a teacher were shot dead at a primary school in 1996. Mason was then further arrested on September 18.

The only previous mass murder at a British school was the Dunblane massacre in 1996, when gunman Thomas Hamilton entered a primary school, shooting dead 16 young children and their teacher before ...

However, he cannot be given a whole life tariff as he was 13 days from his 18th birthday when he carried out the worst targeted attack on children in Britain since the Dunblane massacre in 1996.

Seven days before the horror attack he is believed to have been planning a knife massacre on his former school – Range High ... children in Britain since the Dunblane massacre.

had studied the Dunblane massacre which occurred earlier that year. Seung-Hui Cho, the perpetrator of the Virginia Tech shootings, was reportedly transfixed by the 1999 Columbine high school ...

Whatever Keir Starmer’s motives are for describing the obscene violence inflicted by Axel Rudakubana on children as “new”, he’s fundamentally wrong. Lone individuals mobilised by the consumption of ...

The Scottish Government is giving serious consideration to proposals to make the identification of child murder victims a criminal offence. Here’s why that would be wrong ...

be regarded as a notorious massacre. The heinous mass-murder of children with a carved knife – our nation has known nothing on that scale since Dunblane – in a respectable seaside town on the west ...

Online retailers will be forced to put in place tougher checks to stop youngsters buying knives in the wake of the Southport attack. Killer Axel Rudakubana this week pleaded guilty to murdering ...

He was expelled when he was a young teenager for carrying a knife to school and later assaulting students with ... worst mass killing of children the UK has seen since the 1996 Dunblane massacre in ...

He was expelled when he was a young teenager for carrying a knife to school and later assaulting ... children the UK has seen since the 1996 Dunblane massacre in Scotland. Rudakubana has confessed ...