Slaughter in the Lake District: Taxi driver Derrick Bird's first victim was his twin brother

A trivial row over rivals stealing fares is believed to have sparked a taxi driver's horrific killing spree which left 13 dead yesterday. After a heated argument on Tuesday night, Derrick Bird is said to have stormed off saying: 'There's going to be a rampage tomorrow.' Bird, 52, awoke next morning to commit the worst massacre in Britain since Dunblane in 1996. After shooting dead his twin brother, a solicitor and a taxi driver, he calmly unleashed carnage across the area to the west of the Lake District over the following three hours. With a shotgun and high-powered rifle pointing from the window of his Citroen Picasso taxi he went on a 20-mile terror drive, killing another nine at random before shooting himself. A further 25 were injured with eight still in hospital last night, three of them in a critical condition...Read More...