Why did quiet, shy taxi driver Derrick Bird snap and become mass killer?
Jun 3 2010 By Matt Williams MASS killer Derrick Bird’s last words to a friend the night before he unleashed bloodshed in Cumbria were: “You won’t see me again.” Peter Leder made the revelation as it emerged Bird had argued with fellow taxi drivers that same evening. Peter, also a cabbie, told of the killer’s baffling words as they said goodnight. He said: “When he left, he said, ‘See ya, Peter – but you won’t see me again.’ “I couldn’t understand why he’d said that. I realise now why he wouldn’t see us again because of what’s happened.” Peter also said he could not understand why he would attack colleagues. But one taxi driver said shooting enthusiast Bird might have been teased over his lack of success with women. He said: “He was working last night and had an argument with a couple of other drivers. They used to wind him up because he was really quiet and kept himself to himself. They’d tease him about lasses. “It’s friendly banter but somebody said something to him and he took it to
