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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/gunman-going-mad-before-rampage.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Family of David Bird arrive at the Energus conference centre in Workington for the inquest" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/min-gunman-going-mad-before-rampage.jpg" alt="Family of David Bird arrive at the Energus conference centre in Workington for the inquest"/></a></p>
<p>Horrific details of Derrick Bird&#8217;s ruthless killing spree have been revealed for the first time at the inquest into the deaths of his 12 victims.</p>
<p>The taxi driver, 52, began his murders by blasting his semi-naked twin brother David in his bedroom, shooting him 11 times.</p>
<p>Days before, David told his estranged wife Susan that his brother was &#8220;going mad&#8221; and needed to be sectioned, the Workington inquest heard.</p>
<p>He was worried about a tax investigation involving up to £60,000 of income, some of which was not declared, and feared he would be sent to jail.</p>
<p>And Derrick&#8217;s son, Graeme told how his father was &#8220;not his normal self&#8221;, worried and holding his head in his hands in despair the day before the murders.</p>
<p>Relatives of the dead held hands to their faces as the full horror of the taxi-driver&#8217;s rampage through West Cumbria was revealed for the first time.</p>
<p>During the murders on June 2 last year, Bird, 52, carrying a 12-bore sawn-off shotgun and a .22 rifle, had repeatedly stopped his Citroen Picasso car, called victims over as if to ask the time or for directions, then blasted them in the face with a shotgun.</p>
<p>On more than one occasion he left his vehicle, changed his weapon to the rifle, and finished off his victims by shooting them in the head at point blank range.</p>
<p>Graeme Bird, 29, said his father was &#8220;not his normal self&#8221; the day before the shootings and was worried he was being &#8220;set up&#8221; to go to jail.</p>
<p>He said his father did not appear worried when he previously mentioned his tax investigation but when visiting his home on June 1 last year he &#8220;sat on the sofa with his head on his hands&#8221;.</p>
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