Mum of Brit boy killed in US school gun massacre says Barack Obama is keeping his promise to her

As the tears rolled down Barack Obama ’s face while he paid tribute to the Sandy Hook children, one mother knew it spelled hope for the future of a land scarred by gun tragedies.
Nicole Hockley’s six-year-old British-born son Dylan was one of the 20 innocent souls massacred by crazed Adam Lanza at the elementary school in 2012.
But when the president consoled the distraught mum in the wake of the horrific killing spree, he made a solemn pledge to change the gun laws in a bid to prevent any more of the mass murders America has become all too familiar with.
And while she watched Obama give his emotional speech in ­Washington DC on Tuesday, brave Nicole, 45, knew it was the first step towards honouring that vow from one parent to another.
She said: “I listen to the way Obama talks about this issue and I don’t hear a ­politician, I hear a father.

 

“The first day I met him, Obama’s compassion and his sadness at what happened to all those innocent children, including Dylan, shone through.
“The first time I met him I was distraught. I had lost my son. I had sent him to school happy and healthy and now I would never see him again.