Negotiator texted Cumbrian killer
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Your support makes all the difference.A trained police negotiator phoned and sent text messages to the gunman Derrick Bird when the details of his rampage began to emerge, an inquest heard yesterday.
Inspector Craig Lory said: "I continued calling the mobile and texted him, asking Bird to stop what he was doing and reassuring him he would not be hurt. I received no reply."
The officer was giving evidence on day six of the inquests into the shootings in Cumbria on 2 June last year. Bird shot 12 people dead and injured 11 before killing himself.
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