An inquest has returned verdicts of suicide for Derrick Bird and unlawful killing for each of the 12 people he shot dead in West Cumbria last year. The self-employed taxi driver went on a 45 mile shooting rampage on June 2 last year before he turned his rifle on himself.
A jury of six women and five men sitting in Workington, Cumbria, returned the verdicts after listening to four weeks of harrowing evidence.
Bird killed his own twin brother David, went on to gun down solicitor Kevin Commons, 60, and then drove to a taxi rank in Whitehaven town centre where he shot taxi driver Darren Rewcastle, 43, at point-blank range.
The troubled father-of-two then randomly targeted strangers as he travelled out of town - killing nine and wounding 11 - before he was found dead in woodland near Boot - more than three hours after police discovered his first known victim. Read More
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