MASSACRE

“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.

The massacre was described by police investigating 30 separate crime scenes as “truly exceptional”.

Bird, a 52-year-old divorced father-of-two who lived with his mother, murdered two taxi driver colleagues in the middle of Whitehaven and drove through the Lake District blasting randomly at other victims.