TV host Lorraine Kelly broke down in tears during an interview as she recalled the young victims of the Dunblane school shootings.
Kelly, who reported on the 1996 tragedy, told Piers Morgan she was invited by the parents of five-year-old victim Joanna Ross to see her lying in a coffin in her bedroom.
“We talked and talked for ages and then Pam and Kenny said: ‘Do you want to see her?’ And Joanna was upstairs,” she said on the Life Stories show.
“When I saw her she was just lying there. She just looked asleep. But she was on her bed in a little white coffin with her wee nightie on. Anybody that thinks it’s a good idea to allow anyone access to weapons that can do that should have been in that room and should have seen that little girl.”
The ITV Daybreak presenter, whose daughter Rosie was a toddler at the time of the mass shooting, also described seeing Joanna’s handprints.
“Joanna had obviously rushed to the window and her handprints were still on the window. Obviously, you’re never going to wipe those away. It just brought it home to you so vividly what they’d lost,” she said.
Joanna’s mother, Pam Ross, decided she would like to meet Kelly after seeing her on television.
“There was just something personal. You could see she really cared,” Ms Ross said. “We connected and became friends.”