Cumbria Killings – Inquest Commences – Andrew Nuttall – North West Ambulance Service

[intro]Andrew Nuttall – A leading barrister with Lincoln House Chambers is instructed by the North West Ambulance Service.[/intro]

Armed with a 12-bore sawn-off shotgun and a .22 rifle, he called victims over as if to ask the time, then shot them.

Cumbria coroner, David Roberts opened the inquest  and heard details of the taxi-driver’s killing spree on 2 June last year left 12 people dead.

The inquest heard that the killer  Derrick Bird shot his semi-naked twin brother David 11 times with a rifle after confronting him in his bedroom.

Relatives of those killed by Bird, 52, held hands to their faces as they heard details of his rampage through West Cumbria from Det Ch Supt Iain Goulding.

On more than one occasion he 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, the inquest at the Energus Centre in Workington heard.

A full report is available from bbc news .http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria

Further details can be found –
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/01/cumbria-shooting-inquests-set-begin