2019 Ffynone House School shootings

## **Suspect**

Mohamed Saadiq Uddin was born in Bangladesh and moved to Swansea, Wales when he was 3, he is a Muslim. He joined Ffynone House School in Year 7 he was described as a "bully" in Year 7 but stopped doing it in Year 8, however by Year 10 he stared drug dealing and taking drugs by Year 11 he was expelled from school for drug dealing, he went to college but was expelled for drug dealing once again and frightening. He was criticized for lacking work ethnic, not caring about enough about school and at times was sent out of class. He held numerous "black supremacist" and "anti-white" views on the internet, blaming whites and "race traitors" for him being expelled from school. He also looked up how to commit school shootings, the parents worried that Saadiq was being radicalized.

## **Hero**

Sasha was found guilty for the following in 2014:

* Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (Culpability B, Harm 2 - High level community order (150 hours of unpaid work, curfew for up to 16 hours per day for 4 months) Non-molestation order)
* Unlawful wounding (Culpability B, Harm 3 - High level community order, 150 hours of unpaid work (curfew for up to 16 hours per day for 4 months) Non-molestation order)
* Intent to cause GBH (Culpability B, Harm 3 - 3 years’ custody)
* Threat to kill (Culpability A, Category 1 - 2 years)

5 years in jail (released in 2019), 300 hours of unpaid work, curfew for up to 16 hours per day for 8 months after her release

## **Aftermath**

The site immediately and automatically becomes a crime scene, which places the building or campus under the control of local law enforcement. Even if police wrap up an investigation quickly, however, the extent of the physical damage to the building plays a role in how long its doors stay closed. Students are not sent into a building that had blood stains, or bullet holes, or any visible sign of the damage. Often, students can go back within a matter of weeks, or even days, once visible damage from the violence has been removed or repaired. The school stayed closed for the remainder of the school year and reopened in August ready for next school year due to extensive damage to school and huge victims list. The teachers got together and decided that the students’ grades on the day of the shooting could be their grades for the term. They could keep working and do more and raise their grades, if they wanted to, but they wouldn't penalize anyone for not continuing to work for those few weeks. Every classroom now also contained a “panic button” to trigger an alarm system.

Swansea City FC and Swansea Rugby paid tribute to the victims of the shooting with a minute silence. A vigil, prayer session and memorial service was held at St. James Cathedral which was attended by people of all faiths, The King attended, the service was broadcast live on ITV. A memorial garden was opened at, the garden features a fountain with a plaque of the names of those killed

BBC coverage was universally panned when they ignored the motives of the shootings, deliberately insisted it as not an "anti-white" attack and did not think Callum Martin was a hero and a BBC Panorama documentary touted him as a "white supremacist", the documentary received he biggest number of complaints, with many saying that the "evidence" was very little to make this claim