Book description
Mick North's daughter Sophie was one of the children killed in the
massacre at Dunblane Primary School. Dunblane: Never Forget is
a personal account of Mick's life before and after the massacre and
includes a critical assessement of the events that led to the tragedy
and those that have followed.
He begins by recalling his arrival in Stirling and how he and
Barbara moved to Dunblane while awaiting the birth of their only
child. A few months later Barbara was diagnosed with cancer and the
family had to deal with her terminal illness. After the death of
Barbara, father and daughter became an inseparable team until that
dreadful day in 1996.
North writes about how he and the other families dealt with public
sympathy, the anti-handgun campaign, the memorial service, the
television programmes, newspaper interviews and the creation of the
Dunblane Memorial Garden. He describes how it felt to attend a public
inquiry into the murder of his child, criticises the local police
force and details the ambivalent attitude of the Dunblane community.
