it's almost one year since head teacher ciran stapleton found himself, his staff and his students in that point, one of my other colleagues revealed that he'd actually said that he had a gun with him. this guy was really edgy, really, reallyjumpy. he had kind of a man bag wrapped around his body. he had his hand within that bag and certainly shaped as if he was carrying some kind of firearm, very quickly pointed and quite erratically around. what he started saying at the same time was talking about the end of the world and about how he was going to finish it all. at some point, wires started to come out of this bag. and then there was a light within it that we could see shining out, like a red light shining out of it. and that's when we thought, "well, he's either got a gun "or he could have his finger on some kind of detonator at some point." it turned out the intruder hadn't been carrying a gun or explosives but had been carrying a large knife. coincidentally, the school had practised going into lockdown in a similar scenario two weeks before. chris robinson was teaching students i