Family pay tribute to Liberton High School pupil

The family of the Liberton High School pupil killed when a gym hall wall fell on top of her have paid tribute to their “princess” daughter.
Keane Wallis-Bennett was a “girly” girl according to a statement released from family and friends through Police Scotland who liked days out shopping and boy band One Direction.
The 12 year-old died yesterday when a free standing modesty wall collapsed on top of her at the Edinburgh school.
The statement read: “Keane will be sadly missed by all her family and friends. She was our princess who dreamed of being Prime Minister. But failing that, a beautician. She loved her girlfriends and her days out shopping with lunches and all things girly. She recently attended her first under 18s disco and loved every second of it and was excited to be going to see One Direction in concert.”
Justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has also welcomed checks on all schools in the Edinburgh area following the tragedy.

The Edinburgh Eastern MSP said the decision by Edinburgh City Council to carry out checks on all of its schools would “reassure” parents.
Pupils were sent home early while an inquiry was launched by police and health and safety officers.
Edinburgh City Council said it was a “free-standing modesty wall” that collapsed, and examinations of all such walls in its other schools would begin today.
Liberton High will stay closed for the rest of this week and a full council survey of the school will be carried out before pupils start back after the Easter break in three weeks.

Police and the Health and Safety Executive are meeting today to discuss who will lead the investigation into the death.
Kenny MacAskill, who is the MSP for the area, said there are “difficulties with fragmenting and fraying to the fabric” of the building at Liberton High School.
But he said he did not believe there were health and safety problems at the school.
Mr MacAskill, the MSP for the Edinburgh Eastern area, spoke of his “shock and disbelief” at the death.
“It’s hard to imagine the situation of a child going off to school on a spring day never to return, and our hearts and thoughts go out to the family and the wider community and pupils,” he said.
Mr MacAskill welcomed the city council’s plan to check similar walls, saying this would “reassure pupils and parents”.
Asked if there were health and safety concerns at Liberton High, Mr MacAskill said: “I don’t believe so. The school, as with many schools of that era, the late 50s early 60s, has its challenges. There was storm damage a few years back that caused considerable difficulties and the incident for which the council was fined.
“But notwithstanding the difficulties with fragmenting and fraying to the fabric, it’s a good school in which the head and past head have done a remarkable job in making it a very good school for the local community.”
He stressed the council was doing a “good job” on school maintenance, despite financial constraints.
“There are budgetary pressures for all aspects of government, national and local, but I think the council are doing a good job,” he said.
The council said a survey of all Edinburgh schools was carried out between 2012 and 2013, and no concerns over the wall at Liberton High had been identified.
Lift shaft
Yesterday’s tragedy came weeks after the council was fined £8,000 over an incident that left a girl at the school with serious injuries after falling more than 16ft down a broken-down lift shaft.
The schoolgirl, then aged 15, suffered three fractured vertebrae and a sprained wrist after the fall in December 2011.
First Minister Alex Salmond visited the school in December and has already pledged a “rigorous investigation” into the incident.