Dunblane School Head Teacher Ron Taylor Breaks Silence Over Tragedy Saying 'Guilt Lives With Me'

The former head teacher of Dunblane Primary School has broken his 20-year silence to describe how he remains racked by guilt over the tragedy.
In a harrowing account Ron Taylor described how a "beautiful" spring morning in March 1996 turned into a day of "unimaginable" horror when Thomas Hamilton burst into his school, killing 16 pupils and one teacher. "People couldn't understand why I felt so guilty after the event because there is no way any of us could have anticipated what happened," he told the Daily Mirror.

There is no way we could have adequately prepared for what happened.

"But I felt I should have been able to do more and that guilt lives with me."

Taylor described how he burst into the school's gymnasium to find dying children and Hamilton, who turned the gun on himself, twitching on the floor.

"It was unimaginably horrible to see children dying in front of you. I felt enormous guilt – more than a survivor's guilt.

"It was my school, I felt violated," he said.

The head teacher then had to undertake the grim task of helping police to identify the dead where they had fallen, before writing down the events of March 13 1996, for detectives.

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