‘I felt very uneasy in Hamilton’s company’

OTHER documents released yesterday tell of what happened in the immediate aftermath of the massacre.

One woman had been dropping off two children at the nursery school and had a mobile phone which she lent to a policeman at the scene.

But when the officer used it, he inadvertently hit a key which meant the phone dialled the woman's home answering machine. And this recorded the next few minutes' conversation between officers at the scene. Part of the conversation went: