Killings ‘may have been final statement of paranoid man’

THE murder of 12 people by Derrick Bird may have been the “final statement” of a paranoid man, a psychologist said yesterday.

Serena Simmons, a senior lecturer in psychology at Nottingham Trent University, said mass murderers often fit a “very specific type of profile”.

She said: “With this profile you see people who are not necessarily out of touch with reality but may have a paranoid personality.