Crazy Cabbie

I got my new phone today! Sadly, it didn't come with any free credit like I was hoping, so I currently can't find out what my number is on the phone. I'll have to wait until I can top it up with some credit. But, I got it all set up. That's one thing done at least.

Read something amazingly shocking today when I went downstairs. On the front of the newspaper, The Sun, there was a story about some taxi driver who'd asked a female passenger "Are you having a nice day?", and then, before she could answer, he shot her in the face. Here's the story as it's printed in The Sun.

HAVING A NICE DAY?

What Bird asked woman before shooting her in the face

CABBIE Derrick Bird shot one of him victims after asking her: "Are you having a nice day?" the inquest into his horrific killing spree heard yesterday.

Bird, 52, who flipped over tax worries, blasted Samantha Chrystie in the face before she could reply.

Teacher Samantha, 30, who was taking a photo of tranquil countryside, miraculously survived. But Bird killed 12 and wounded another ten in his ruthless rampage across West Cumbria with a rifle and shotgun in June last year.

The full horror of his savagery emerged at the opening of the inquest into the deaths.

Picking off most of his victims at random, he slaughtered Jane Robinson, 66, after pressing his sawn-off shotgun against her MOUTH.

And after blasting 57-year-old mum Susan Hughes twice with the shotgun, he flipped her over and finished her off with a rifle bullet to the head.

He also killed fellow cabbies who he believed had insulted him over his personal hygiene and dirty taxi.

Relatives of Bird and his victims listened as the inquest in Workington, Cumbria, heard the cabbie went berserk because he mistakenly thought he was about to be carted off to jail for tax dodging.

PLOTTING

Paranoid Bird believed his twin David and family solicitor Kevin Commons - his first two victims - were plotting with Inland Revenue investigators to send him down.

Yet in reality he was financially secure. And although he was being probed by tax officials he was in no imminent danger of being jailed.

He had squirrelled away £60,000 but had been declaring income of only £100 a week.

Stressed out Bird, of Rowrah, rang David 44 times three days before the murders. And David's daughter Tracey revealed her dad thought the cabbie was "going mad". Bird, who killed himself, held both his .22 rifle and shotgun legally

The inquest, set to last six weeks, continues.