Relatives of gun spree killer Derrick Bird would apologise to his victims' families "if they had the strength", a close friend said today as memorial services were held to remember the dead.

INVESTIGATORS were focusing on gun killer Derrick Bird’s money troubles yesterday after it emerged that he feared being jailed for tax evasion.

THE family of gunman Derrick Bird were last night struggling to understand what turned the quiet taxi driver into a mass killer.

TWELVE people were killed and 11 were wounded when taxi driver Derrick Bird went on a gun rampage.

The family of gunman Derrick Bird were tonight struggling to understand what turned the quiet taxi driver into a mass killer.

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.

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 the UK were hunting a gunman today after a person was reportedly shot dead.

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