We were contacted regarding CCTV footage which showed Derrick Bird driving through the streets of Seascale during his shocking killer spree in Cumbria. We secured a five figure sum for the tipster (five times the amount he had originally been offered) and he was still able to remain anonymous.
Psycho cabbie's rampage on CCTV
MASSACRE madman Derrick Bird sweeps along a village's coast road in his Citroen cab - seconds after shooting one victim and moments before he killed another.
The picture - the first showing Bird's shocking spree in Cumbria last week - comes from a CCTV video obtained by The Sun.
Four shotgun blasts fired by Bird can be heard on the chilling film. The first two blasts came from cabbie Bird's 12-bore shotgun as he neared the end of his murderous rampage.
The screams heard on the film are from wounded pub landlord Harry Berger - hit in the shoulder and hand.
The second volley was the awful moment when Bird killed 64-year-old cyclist Michael Pike.
The terrible climax to last Wednesday's massacre was caught by the lens and microphone of a CCTV camera set up 50 yards away from the coast road where deranged Bird opened fire as he drove along it in his Citroen Picasso.
At one point, it shows Bird driving past on his way to shooting the last two of the 12 people he murdered before he killed himself.
Mr Berger, 52, is seen heading towards his fateful meeting with the cabbie.
And the film records the lucky escape of a mother and child.
The tiny camera was mounted on an alley wall in an attempt to trap suspected vandals by sight and sound.Its owner, who does not wish to be named, alerted police last Friday after realising what the footage revealed.
Cops failed to follow up the call but The Sun will now make the tape available to Cumbrian detectives.
The owner said last night: "Seeing Derrick Bird's car flash past on the tape made me shiver."I looked at it again and there he was, captured on film during his rampage. I felt nauseous. It shook me."
At first, the camera just looks down Seascale's Albert Street towards the village's coast road, called The Crescent. Only the sound of seagulls can be heard.
Bird, 52, had already killed nine by the time he arrived in the village just before 11.30am.He shot dead his tenth victim, 23-year-old estate agent Jamie Clark, on the outskirts.And by now he was firing randomly at motorists and passers-by through a hole in his front passenger window.
The video shows Mr Berger driving along The Crescent towards the railway bridge on South Parade in his beige Land Rover Discovery at 11.26am.He was heading from the Woolpack pub, 11 miles away near Boot, to pick up a prescription for an elderly friend. But his route took him straight into the path of the cabbie.
The camera then recorded a gold Suzuki 4x4, with a mother and a child inside, heading down Albert Street towards The Crescent.
The first two blasts rang out. Mr Berger was wounded in the shoulder and right hand, stalling his car in the middle of South Parade and blocking oncoming traffic.
Meanwhile the mum turned into The Crescent - and headed towards the bridge.
The shots alerted builder William Hogg, 51, who was taking a break at his Albert Street home.He is seen on the tape racing out of the back door as bleeding Mr Berger cries desperately for help.
As Mr Hogg races to aid the landlord, Bird's Citroen is seen sweeping by the end of Albert Street.He is closely followed by the mum's Suzuki. In the middle of the mayhem, she had turned round before the bridge and headed back.
She then unwittingly took the same route as the killer - but survived both brushes with death.
Bird briefly paused to reload his shotgun. Then two more blasts are heard as he fires at the rear wheel of Mr Pike's bicycle before shooting him in the head at close range.
Bird carried on and at 11.28am he shot dead 66-year-old nature lover Jane Robinson as she delivered Betterware catalogues on Drigg Road.
After the final murder he drove out of Seascale and along country lanes to evade cops. His body was found more than two hours later in woodland.
The final CCTV frame, filmed at 11.35am, shows three armed response police vehicles in pursuit, more than seven minutes behind Bird.
Dad-of-two Mr Hogg told last night how he was having a cup of tea when he heard the first shots. He said: "I knew it was gunfire because I used to own a shotgun, so I ran up to the railway bridge. Harry's car was stalled in the middle of the road and he was slumped across the passenger seat. His face was splattered with blood."He was shouting, 'Somebody help me' and kept saying he had let his friend down because they wouldn't get their prescription. I ran into a bakery to call an ambulance."
As other locals arrived at the scene the police vehicles screeched to a halt in front of Mr Berger's car.A cop with a rifle yelled that the car had to be moved to let them by.
Mr Hogg said: "Someone said, 'Mate, there's a bloke been shot here.' The officer just screamed back, 'Move it now.' We all pushed it clear.
The cops just roared off round the corner."Meanwhile, word reached the group that two more people had been shot just 500 yards away.
Worried Mr Hogg went to check on a friend - but on the way saw a tarpaulin covering Mr Pike's body.
Mr Hogg told how the shock of what he had witnessed only hit him hours later.He said: "I was outside my house chatting to some people and the tears just came. I had a good cry."