The Dunblane Tapes review – deeply moving film lays bare parents’ grief 30 years after tragedy

The Dunblane Tapes review – deeply moving film lays bare parents’ grief 30 years after tragedy. Based on footage made by a devastated father in the aftermath of the school shooting, this heartbreaking documentary speaks to those still dealing with the loss. You wonder how some are still standing Thirty years on, the Dunblane massacre remains almost unbelievable and the grief of the families unfathomable. In a terrible way, it is almost harder to see them now, three decades on; three decades lived without the children who should now be grown up, with families of their own. On 13 March 1996, a man called Thomas Hamilton shot dead 15 primary schoolchildren aged between five and six and their teacher Gwen Mayor in their gym as they were beginning a PE lesson. Some of them he shot at point-blank range when they were incapacitated by earlier bullets. A 16th child died on the way to hospital. Continue reading…