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

A FATHER whose five-year-old daughter was killed in the Dunblane massacre, Britain’s worst act of gun violence, described the Virginia shooting as “horrifying.”

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.

AS courtroom dramas go this one has enough dramatis personae to ensure plenty of entertainment.

DUNBLANE-STYLE gun controls should be introduced in Northern Ireland as part of efforts to deal with legally and illegally held weapons, Sinn Féin argued yesterday.

Flies crawl across the ceiling of the tiny bathroom where Ian Huntley claims Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman died.