A teenager who felt she had been ignored when she tried to alert the authorities to the dangers of Dunblane killer Thomas Hamilton has been found dead.
Seventeen-year-old Vikki Haggar, who had been caught up in the terrible aftermath of the tragedy but was excused from giving evidence to the Dunblane inquiry because of the stress, was found dead from what is believed to have been a drugs overdose, in her Aberdeen home.
Now known as Ms Vikki Elliot, her body was found in the third floor tenement home she shared with her nine-month old son, Dominic. He was not in the Seaton Place East flat at the time.
A former school friend said last night: ''I am sure she never recovered from the trauma. Hamilton has claimed another victim.
''I knew she was into drugs - she was dabbling around the time of the inquiry because it helped her to put it all out of her head. I thought she was happier now that she had Dominic - it is such a shame.''
When 15, Ms Elliot was the focus of media attention when it emerged she had attended one of Thomas Hamilton's infamous camps on an island on Loch Lomond, with her mother Doreen and a brother, Andrew.
Mrs Haggar said their reason for going on the four week camp was to keep an eye on Hamilton's activities and stop him abusing youngsters.
Ms Elliot vividly remembered those days in 1988, and said following the killings: ''I was petrified of him. I knew he was a pervert.''
Mrs Haggar had tried to alert police to her concerns over Hamilton and he had threatened her with a gun. Soon after, she moved to Aberdeen with her six children. Mother and daughter were interviewed by police following the killings.
But Ms Elliot, then a pupil at Hazlehead Academy, Aberdeen, ran away from the family home in the city's Barra Walk rather than appear before Lord Cullen, but returned home after counsel to the inquiry announced there would be no need for her to give evidence.
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