THE Lake District killings are reminiscent of previous massacres in Hungerford, Berkshire, and Dunblane, Scotland, which sent shockwaves through the country.

THOMAS Hamilton, who massacred 16 children, their teacher and himself in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996, bore a grudge verging on paranoia against the town’s parents, police and the scouting movement, newly- disclosed documents have shown.