INVERCLYDE S civic leader laid a wreath to mark the anniversary of a very dark day in Greenock s history. Provost Martin Brennan honoured the eight people who were shot dead 201 years ago in the town during the Radical War conflict. The atrocity happened when soldiers opened fire on a crowd who tried to free impoverished anti-government protesters being escorted to Greenock jail. The dead included an eight-year-old boy and a man aged 65, and a further 10 people were seriously injured. The names of all the victims and the words ‘remember the 8th of April, that bloody day when many were wounded and carried away’ are also inscribed along the wall at Bank Street, near to where the jail was located in 1820.