Inquests begin into victims of killer taxi driver

THE inquests into the deaths of mass killer Derrick Bird and the 12 victims he gunned down begin this week.

Taxi driver Bird, 52, went on a shooting rampage as he drove around west Cumbria on June 2 last year before he turned a gun on himself.

The hearing before a jury in Workington, which opens tomorrow, will analyse all 13 deaths in chronological order and is expected to last up to six weeks.