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The mother of a five-year-old girl who was shot dead in the Dunblane massacre has revealed she still has her daughter s lunch money and snack from that day .
Lynne McMaster dropped her daughter Victoria Clydesdale off at Dunblane Primary School, Stirling, on the morning of March 13, 1996.
But shortly after 9.30am, teacher Gwen Mayor and 16 pupils - including Victoria - were killed when Thomas Hamilton, 43, burst through the gym doors and fired off 105 shots in quick succession, before turning the two handguns on himself.
In ITV s Return To Dunblane with Lorraine Kelly, which airs tonight at 9pm to mark the 25th anniversary of the tragedy, Lynne reveals how she s never parted with any of her daughter s belongings and still feels guilty for sending her to school.
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Updated: 11 Mar 2021, 20:54
TWENTY-FIVE years ago the unimaginable happened.
I was listening to the radio on the way home from work and heard there had been a massacre at a primary school in Dunblane.
The Sun s Lorraine Kelly makes an emotional return to Dunblane 25 years on from British s deadliest mass shooting in historyCredit: PA:Press Association
Lorraine Kelly will present the new documentary Return to Dunblane
Thomas Hamilton had carried out the deadliest mass shooting in British history, killing 17 before killing himself with one of his four legally-held handguns.
At first I thought it must be somewhere in the US with the same name, because it couldn’t be the Dunblane in Scotland that I knew so well a peaceful and safe place to bring up your kids and somewhere to stop off for a cup of tea and a warm welcome on the journey from Glasgow to Dundee.