Gun plea by father of boy shot in his pram

THE father of a two-year-old Scots boy shot dead in his pushchair while on a family holiday will join with other gun control campaigners in London today.

David Grimason and his wife Ozlem joined the Control Arms campaign after their two-year-old son Alistair was shot during a gunfight in a Turkish caf.

Mr Grimason, from Edinburgh, will join other campaigners to celebrate the United Nations General Assembly's endorsement of an arms-trade treaty.

Last month, 153 governments voted at the UN to start work on a treaty to prevent international arms sales that fuel conflict, poverty and human rights violations.

Mr Grimason will also stress pressure must continue to be put on world leaders until such a deal is in place. He said: "There is a long way to go until we have effective controls on the transfer of weapons."

Small arms kill about 1,000 people every day.