Exiled in a kilt

Ok, I asked this question fairly recently in the "Ask the person below you" thread:
What event made you realise that the world was a place where evil things can and do happen?

I have been thinking about this for a couple of months now (proof that I do think of things other then sports - well at least occassionally ) & I think I have manged to pin that point down in my life anyway to one point.

The event was the Jamie Bulger murder in February 1993; for those of you unfamiliar with the story Jamie Bulger was a 2 year old kid who was abducted from a shopping centre by 2 ten year old boys who then brutally killed him. I had just turned 11 at the time and was amazed that such a thing could happen (and that people my age could be involved in such a thing)

Other events that made the shortlist:

1) In 1988 an exhibition called the Garden Festival was held in Glasgow, this was a summer long thing which I used to enjoy going to and would insist on the mother taking me. Now I know there are some amongst you currently thinking "flowers??? Kilted, you're a big softie!! " but I liked going because there was this little maze type thing, and at 6 I enjoyed running through it.
I used to run through it myself - brothers were bored and mother would wait at the exit with them. On one occassion going through it in my usual childlike, innocent fashion I reached the centre to find a couple of guys dealing drugs.

This did not make the cut as despite it being the first time I encountered drugs, it is not really evil & I dont see it particularly as a life-changing moment.


2)The first time one of my friends died, I was 13/14 at the time. I walked into class one day and found that he had died of pneumonia. This was the first time I was old enough to really experience death on a personal level.

This is not the event as again it is upsetting,but not really evil. Also the Bulger incident had occurred previously.