Derrick Bird was licensed to own the two guns he used to murder 12 people in a three-hour rampage apparently sparked by a family feud, it was revealed today.

British police were today investigating what sparked gunman Derrick Bird's killing spree amid reports he was involved in a bitter family feud.

“YOU won’t see me again,’ Derrick Bird chillingly told a friend before embarking on a shooting spree across rural northwestern England, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others, including his mother, before turning the gun on himself.

DERRICK BIRD’S killing spree began when he shot several colleagues in Whitehaven in Cumbria, then drove his cab through the countryside of the Lake District blasting other victims, apparently at random.

WITNESSES described their horror as they fled the path of taxi driver Derrick Bird, whose shooting rampage has left 12 people dead and 25 injured.

A taxi driver went on a shotgun rampage in the Lake District today, killing 12 people and wounding at least 25 before turning his weapon on himself.

At least five people were dead in Britain today after a taxi driver went on the rampage with a shotgun then killed himself.

Police in England hunting a gunman responsible for a killing spree said today they had found his body.