They Shoot Children, Don’t They? A Retrospective on Dunblane, 18 Years On

by Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB

On March 13, 1996, in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 children ages 5 and 6 were shot to death in the gymnasium. Their teacher Gwen Mayor also was shot dead. Twelve other kids and two teachers were wounded but survived. The general belief is that the event was the work of a local, Thomas Hamilton, who “acted alone.” The event led to a ban on handguns in Scotland.

One resident of Dunblane, Sandra Uttley, who was 26 years old at the time, was the friend of a man who lost his daughter in the shootout. She was unhappy with the Cullen Inquiry that was held in 1997, but had no knowledge of wrongdoing by Inquiry members until she read an online item in 1999. She got on the case brilliantly and by 2006 she had published a book.

Her book, “Dunblane Unburied,” tells us the following:

1.  Hamilton supposedly turned the gun on himself after the shooting spree, but this can’t be correct as he had two shots to the head.
2.  Parents were kept locked in an office for hours before being told that their child was dead – the extra time being needed for “identification of the victims.” (Uttley says this was to let the crime scene in the gym be tampered with.)
3.  An off-duty cop, Grant McCutcheon, happened to be in the building and gave an apparently correct description of what he saw, yet he was not called as a witness at Cullen Inquiry!
4.  The Head Teacher said he called the police office line, not 999, but records seem to show he called 999. Can we sort that out by listening to calls? No, the case is under a 100-year seal.
5.  A Dunblane child told his Dad that Hamilton had asked him, not once but many times over a 2-year period, to tell him the layout of the school, e.g., which door led to the gym, and what time the school’s morning assemblies were held.
6.  Hamilton was a pedophile and a seller of photos of scantily clad boys, in days before the upsurge of kiddie porn that came with the Internet.
7.  Hamilton was very interested in guns and had, in 1996, asked an instructor at the shooting club to help him improve his 10-yard range.
8.  Money was paid to the victims and to the community from a not-openly-accountable Dunblane Fund of six million pounds.
9.  Hamilton was a loner. He had owned a shop selling cameras, but his main occupation was running Boy’s Clubs and summer camps. He over-disciplined the youngsters in a dictatorial style.
10.  On numerous occasions, parents filed complaints with police. These never had the effect of preventing Hamilton from getting leases on school campuses to run his camps. They also did not result in police refusal to renew his gun licenses.
11.  Hamilton always seized the moral high ground by sending complaints about being harassment by authorities, even writing to the Queen the very week before the massacre. Those who complained about him were threatened with libel suits.
12. Except for Doreen Hagger, mother of a camper whom Hamilton mistreated, no one took an angry position during the Inquiry. Hagger, however, was beaten down during cross-examination, and her “drinking” was mentioned. (She doesn’t drink but multiple sclerosis causes her words to sound slurred.)

 The Big Picture

Sandra Uttley’s careful research is a marvel. She was aided by the aforementioned Ms Hagger and by a businessman William W Scott. The online item that had caught Uttley’s attention was a request by a man who had read the first edition of The Scotsman newspaper on the final day of the inquiry. It said that Police Commissioner McMurdo’s chauffeur testified that he had often driven his boss to visit Hamilton at home in the evening.

Later editions did not carry the item and the newspaper denies that it ever published that fact. This brings us to the order of closure under the 100-year rule. William Scott inquired of the Parliament of Scotland, and found that there is no statutory basis for that rule in Scotland!

Quoting page 78 of Dunblane Unburied: “Even now the Lord Advocate is only agreeing to release some of the papers since there are some, he says, that are too sensitive to be made public.” (Ask: why do folks put up with this kind of talk?)

On May 12, 1998, as recorded in Hansard, Lord Burton stated that he had, in June 1994, made a report to the Ministry of Defence about the Queen Victoria School, at which Hamilton was a frequent visitor. Lord Burton said: “Nothing of this was in the Cullen Report. Cullen is a Mason with a duty to protect brother Masons. There is evidence to show corruption and maladministration by the police.” Talk about incriminating!

Uttley’s book is more than sufficient proof that Lord Cullen committed the crime of cover-up. Police officers perjured themselves. Hardly anyone who testified was cross-examined. Contradictions were flagrantly left unresolved, such as the highway cameras showing Hamilton driving in a different direction from his itinerary according to the official story.

I will give but one quote to show obfuscation in the investigation. From page 70 of Uttley’s “Dunblane Unburied”:

“[The parents of one child] stare that they saw two bullet holes in the south wall of the gym, about 2 inches apart and just 6 inches from the ground. Their statement continues, ‘There were no other bullet holes in that wall and I noticed that there were quite a few bullet holes in the other walls which would confirm my…(words are blanked out here) that he fired into the wall at the bottom end of the gym where Hamilton had entered the gym.’ So WHO fired into the walls?”

The Even Bigger Picture

I will now venture a guess as to what the Dunblane massacre was all about. I could be way off base, of course, but since the authorities have done all they can to hide the truth, anyone is free to speculate.

It looks as though Hamilton was a player in what we all now know to be a roaring trade in pedophile literature. Because of this he was blackmailable. Police seemed to come to his house for ‘friendship’ but Hamilton’s personality was said to be creepy, hostile, and strange. Hard to see how anyone would find his company enjoyable. I speculate he was being turned into a robot that could carry out tasks for World Government.

I suspect he was programmed to ask that child those repetitive questions about the layout of the school building, and to ask the gun instructor to help him with his 10-yard shooting range.

There are many cases in which a patsy lays a trail, starting years earlier, which the media can then pounce on to prove his guilt. And there was Hamilton’s clever harassment of people who complained about him. It helped police keep him in business.

As far as I know, there is such a thing as a lust for blood and Hamilton may have desired to commit multiple murders that day. Yet it is also possible that he was hypnotized to do it. Clearly he didn’t commit suicide. Someone shot him. I think it was a person working for the Big Boys who took him out, and then the police created the scene of a Lone Gunman.

Why am I going so far afield here? Because I have seen this happen many times. I would be glad to describe it in court.

In 1996 there was the killing of 34 tourists in Port Arthur, allegedly by Martin Bryant, but definitely not by him.  In 2002 in Erfurt, Germany there was a school massacre very similar to Dunblane. The German shooter, age 19, was supposedly making payback for being expelled from school. Imagine it.

When you take a closer look, it is always an event instantly interpreted by media, followed by a wholly inadequate government inquiry. The public now takes it as given that a lone individual can carry off the most complicated activity without help. This is ridiculous.

Anyway a few significant clues, such as the 100-year closure of the Cullen records should be enough to tell any citizen that he/she is being had, bigtime. (We can’t see Hamilton’s autopsy because of “privacy laws”? That sort of remark is frequently heard.)

Rhyme or Reason

So why are these things done? Again, I’m guessing. I propose that the main goal is to break up community’s security and leave us all waiting to see which disaster will strike next. Maybe an earthquake? maybe an epidemic, maybe a spree-killer? All of this renders us weak in the face of creeping totalitarianism.

Many onlookers say the shoot-outs are done to take our arms away. Granted, gun control laws do often follow. But what good are guns today when the powerful have so many ways to prevent our getting at them? They have drones, chemicals, radiation, and they have the mainstream media to keep everyone in ignorance, plus a major enterprise in education to make sure children come out of school ignorant of history.

I also think, judging by the grotesque nature of some of the events (I’d include the Haiti earthquake in that, and certainly the Dunblane kindergarten massacre), that a few men at the top are so perverted that they do these things for fun. They are extremely pathetic individuals. (See Kay Griggs’ report on Henry Kissinger.) And they must constantly demonstrate their loyalty to one another. They are stuck in a rut. Poor things.

Yet I continue to blame ourselves, the citizens of a free country. We really don’t have to be so accepting of dishonesty, do we? Or so afraid to take a stand?  Sandra Uttley’s book has not had one Amazon review in the eight year’s of its life. Would a reviewer be risking his life? Yep. But he is risking his life every day by not speaking out.

Take a chance. Speak out.

—  Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB,  thinks the whole game is fortunately falling apart.  She thinks World Government went too far last week at Martin Place. She is dreaming of a book entitled “The Bozos Met Their Waterloo at Botany Bay.” Please see her Sydney Siege video at the Youtube channel of Mary W Maxwell, and her website ProsecutionForTreason.com.