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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/killer-bird-shot-brother-11-times.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-killer-bird-shot-brother-11-times.jpg" alt="Family of David Bird arrive at the Energus conference centre in Workington for the inquest"/></a></p>
<p>Killer Derrick Bird shot his semi-naked twin brother 11 times with a rifle after confronting him in his bedroom, the inquest into the deaths of his victims heard.</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 at the hearing.</p>
<p>During the killing spree on June 2 last year which left 12 dead, 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, then simply blasted them in the face with a shotgun.</p>
<p>On more than one occasion he then left his vehicle, changed his weapon to the rifle, and finished off his injured victims by shooting them in the head at point blank range.</p>
<p>The details of the slaughter were given by Detective Chief Superintendent Iain Goulding, from Cumbria Police, the senior investigating officer.</p>
<p>His opening presentation to the inquest, lasting an hour and a half, was heard in silence by more than 100 observers at the Energus Centre in Workington.</p>
<p>Mr Goulding told the hearing Bird, who lived alone and was separated from the mother of his two grown-up children, had for &#8220;some time&#8221; been worried about the tax investigation and sought the help of his brother and Kevin Commons, the Bird family solicitor.</p>
<p>This led to increased contact between the brothers and to him ringing his brother David, no less than 44 times on May 30 alone.</p>
<p>They also met the next day and appeared to be having a &#8220;serious conversation&#8221; outside David&#8217;s home in Lamplugh.</p>
<p>Bird, from Rowrah, injured 11 others in his shooting spree in Lamplugh, Frizington, Whitehaven, Egremont, Gosforth and Seascale before he was found dead in a wooded area near Boot. He had blasted himself in the head with the rifle.</p>
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