Ex-girlfriend tells jury of killer cabbie’s cold ‘emotional void’

The taxi driver, from Rowrah, Cumbria, had also head-butted his girlfriend and she dumped him when Bird showed no support when her sister was dying of cancer.

Bird, 52, who killed himself after his crime spree across west Cumbria left 12 dead on June 2 last year., used a computer at his home every night to access extreme internet pornography.