Aberdeen Council has set up a dedicated support line anyone affected by tragedy can use, by calling 01224 264299.
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A candlelit vigil is due to be held on Thursday evening at Cults Parish Church.
Before I conclude I want to pay tribute to the pupils, families and staff at Cults Academy for pulling together at this time. “Everybody in the school is devastated and our thoughts are with his friends and family at what is a very hard time”. “There will be hard days ahead, but I will always be keeping this at the forefront of my mind”. Another offered thoughts for the families of Bailey and the boy who has been charged, saying: “Both have lost sons”.
A student at the prestigious Cults Academy in Scotland was stabbed to death, allegedly by one of his classmates. “Nothing like this has happened before, I am sure there’s been altercations with teenage boys but nothing like this”.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do for the next few weeks, I was at a band practice last night and I couldn’t focus, my hand was just shaking”.
“Pupils and staff are in a state of total shock”. Our hearts have gone with him. I don’t think words can really do justice to something like this.
Tributes for Gwynne poured in across social media, with one girl tweeting: “School is supposed to be one of [the] safest places we attend as teenagers, what a frightful day #RIPBailey”.
“A full and thorough enquiry is under way has been launched [sic] and there will be a police presence in the area for the foreseeable future”.
The school is described on its website as a six-year comprehensive serving the Lower Deeside area.
Cults Academy is a secondary school with 1,050 pupils from age 11 to 18.
Current and former pupils, parents, members of the local Cults community and church elders moved around the room adding their messages of support throughout the vigil.
She said: “Incidents like this are deeply shocking and deeply tragic, and the impact on the lives of those who knew and loved Bailey is impossible for any of us to imagine”.
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The first minister said such incidents were very rare in Scotland and that any lessons that were required to be learned would be learned.
