On the morning of 2 June 2010 , professional rugby league player and farmer Garry Purdham was shot dead at a farm in the Gosforth area . Within hours , police had identified the killer as 52-year-old local taxi driver Derrick Bird , who killed eleven other people on a rampage in the area before taking his own life
a rampage
Cumbria shootings
Gosforth, Cumbria