Meeting of the Parliament 12 March 2026 [Draft]
Thirty years ago tomorrow, 16 primary 1s and their teacher went to school and did not come home. Fifteen more were injured. Those children would have been the same age as me.
When the news came over the radio, my mum was in hospital, having just given birth to my brother. The panic across central Scotland was real. She always told us how her relief at me being safe was immediately dashed by the realisation that others did not have the same fate. Their hopes and dreams were never realised.
No words can do real justice to the pain and grief of the families who never got to see their babies grow up. My thoughts, and those of the Scottish Greens, go to all those who are affected.
We were proud to take action on a cross-party basis to tackle the ownership of handguns. As parliamentarians, we have to strive to make sure that what happened that day can never happen again.