All the papers have the face of the Virginia Tech campus killer staring out from their front pages.
Outsider who unleashed his hatred on classmates says the Times
The gunman who massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech university was named yesterday as Cho Seung Hui, 23, a South Korean English student who left behind a “disturbing and angry” manuscript before his rampage.
Cho, who moved to the US with his family from South Korea in 1992, was a loner who lived on campus and had begun behaving bizarrely before he unleashed the worst single shooting spree in US history on Monday.
Police said they had seized “considerable writing” in his dormitory. Cho, whose writing assignments had already alarmed tutors, railed against “rich kids”, “debauchery” and “deceitful charlatans” on the campus. “You caused me to do this,” he wrote.
He died with the name “Ismail Ax” written on one of his arms in red ink.
Cho, who moved to the US with his family from South Korea in 1992, was a loner who lived on campus and had begun behaving bizarrely before he unleashed the worst single shooting spree in US history on Monday.
Police said they had seized “considerable writing” in his dormitory. Cho, whose writing assignments had already alarmed tutors, railed against “rich kids”, “debauchery” and “deceitful charlatans” on the campus. “You caused me to do this,” he wrote.
He died with the name “Ismail Ax” written on one of his arms in red ink.
YOU MADE ME DO THIS headlines the Mirror.
The South Korean-born English student spoke so rarely to fellow students he was known as "Question Mark" - and even took the name himself.
Yet underneath his expressionless mask the vengeful student, known to cops as an obsessive stalker, was raging at what he saw as the vice of university life.
On Monday, he wrote a pages-long list of grievances. In it, he railed against "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" before blaming the slaughter to come on his campus colleagues.
Yet underneath his expressionless mask the vengeful student, known to cops as an obsessive stalker, was raging at what he saw as the vice of university life.
On Monday, he wrote a pages-long list of grievances. In it, he railed against "rich kids," "debauchery" and "deceitful charlatans" before blaming the slaughter to come on his campus colleagues.
Massacre gunman's deadly infatuation with Emily says the Mail
Cho arrived in the US as a boy in 1992. His family own a dry-cleaning business in a suburb of Washington DC.
The student's behaviour had recently become increasingly violent and erratic. He had set fire to a dormitory room and been taking medication for depression.
The student's behaviour had recently become increasingly violent and erratic. He had set fire to a dormitory room and been taking medication for depression.
He had also been stalking other woman and become angered by wealthier, popular students who froze him out at Virginia Tech.
So disturbing was his creative writing that the English student had been referred to the university's counselling service.
According to the website The Smoking Gun, Cho wrote a one-act play as part of a short-story class. Called Richard McBeef, it featured a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of paedophilia and murder.
The teenager talks of killing the older man, depicts the child's mother brandishing a chainsaw at the stepfather. It ends as the man strikes the boy 'with a deadly blow.'
Professor Carolyn Rude, head of the university's English department, said she had spoken with Lucinda Roy, the director of creative writing, who taught Cho and described him as 'troubled'.
So disturbing was his creative writing that the English student had been referred to the university's counselling service.
According to the website The Smoking Gun, Cho wrote a one-act play as part of a short-story class. Called Richard McBeef, it featured a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of paedophilia and murder.
The teenager talks of killing the older man, depicts the child's mother brandishing a chainsaw at the stepfather. It ends as the man strikes the boy 'with a deadly blow.'
Professor Carolyn Rude, head of the university's English department, said she had spoken with Lucinda Roy, the director of creative writing, who taught Cho and described him as 'troubled'.
The Sun describes
THE FACE OF HATE
South Korean-born Seung-Hui had reportedly been accused of stalking women and setting fire to his dorm, and was taking high doses of anti-depressants.
The fourth year English literature student was referred to counselling services after teachers became worried about strange images in his creative writing.
The fourth year English literature student was referred to counselling services after teachers became worried about strange images in his creative writing.
America's finest - gunned down in a bloody rampage is the front of the Independent decribing the stories of those that died
The 76-year-old professor of engineering, died saving the lives of several of his students by blocking his classroom's doorway as Cho approached. His actions allowed students to climb on to a window ledge and jump to relative safety.
His son Joe, who lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, said: "My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to jump. Students started opening windows and jumping out. His work was his life in a sense."
It was a brutal end to a life scarred by violence, murder and oppression. When Romania joined forces with Nazi Germany in the Second World
War, he was interned in a labour camp in Moldova and then deported along with his family and thousands of other Jews to a central ghetto in the city of Focsani, Romania.
His son Joe, who lives in Tel Aviv, Israel, said: "My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to jump. Students started opening windows and jumping out. His work was his life in a sense."
It was a brutal end to a life scarred by violence, murder and oppression. When Romania joined forces with Nazi Germany in the Second World
War, he was interned in a labour camp in Moldova and then deported along with his family and thousands of other Jews to a central ghetto in the city of Focsani, Romania.
The Guardian asks
Angry students demand answers after being told it was safe to go to classes
Students at Virginia Tech demanded to know yesterday why they had been allowed to proceed to classes after the first shooting incident in one part of the college campus but before the second and most deadly rampage had begun.
What happened in the crucial period between 7.15am on Monday, when a 911 call was made to police reporting the initial shooting, and 9.45am when gunfire was heard elsewhere on the campus, has become a focal point for the investigation and for questions about whether more could have been done to prevent the carnage. The bulk of deaths - 31 of the 33 who died, not including the gunman - happened in the second incident at Norris hall or because of injuries incurred there.
What happened in the crucial period between 7.15am on Monday, when a 911 call was made to police reporting the initial shooting, and 9.45am when gunfire was heard elsewhere on the campus, has become a focal point for the investigation and for questions about whether more could have been done to prevent the carnage. The bulk of deaths - 31 of the 33 who died, not including the gunman - happened in the second incident at Norris hall or because of injuries incurred there.
The man that sold the gun to the student also comes in for a lot of attention
Gun dealer: It's all uni's fault says the Sun
THE weapons dealer who sold crazed Cho Seung-Hui one of his guns last night blamed the UNIVERSITY for the carnage.
John Markell bizarrely insisted a campus gun ban triggered the shootings.
Markell, 58, said: “Students are thrown out if they are found to carry guns on campus and professors are dismissed if they carry them.
John Markell bizarrely insisted a campus gun ban triggered the shootings.
Markell, 58, said: “Students are thrown out if they are found to carry guns on campus and professors are dismissed if they carry them.
The Independent reports
If Cho Seung-Hui wanted to start a war, he could not have gone to a better place than Roanoke Firearms.
Five weeks ago, the 23-year-old foreign student entered the shop and paid $570 (£284) with a credit card for a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol and a box of 50 cartridges. He provided three different forms of identification and passed an additional security check carried out by the state police. The checks threw up no red flags. The entire transaction took no more than 20 minutes.
"I don't know anything about him. I just sold him the gun," the store's owner, John Markell, told The Independent, standing behind one of the store's glass display cases packed full of matt-black weapons. "He had a Virginia driving licence, a cheque book and a green card. Everything was legit - he checked out completely."
Five weeks ago, the 23-year-old foreign student entered the shop and paid $570 (£284) with a credit card for a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol and a box of 50 cartridges. He provided three different forms of identification and passed an additional security check carried out by the state police. The checks threw up no red flags. The entire transaction took no more than 20 minutes.
"I don't know anything about him. I just sold him the gun," the store's owner, John Markell, told The Independent, standing behind one of the store's glass display cases packed full of matt-black weapons. "He had a Virginia driving licence, a cheque book and a green card. Everything was legit - he checked out completely."
The Financial Times leads with yesterdays other main story
Inflation seals Bank’s interest rate fate
UK interest rates look certain to rise again – possibly by half a percentage point by autumn – after a shock jump in inflation which also pushed sterling above $2 for the first time in 15 years
The rise in consumer price inflation to 3.1 per cent in March, announced on Tuesday, forced Mervyn King to write a letter of explanation to Gordon Brown, as its rate was more than 1 percentage point higher than the 2 per cent target.
This was the first exchange of letters between the Bank of England governor and the chancellor in almost 10 years.
Mr King blamed the sustained rise in inflation partly on sharp increases in food, electricity and gas prices over the past year, but also on businesses discovering a greater degree of pricing power as the economy continued to grow.
This was the first exchange of letters between the Bank of England governor and the chancellor in almost 10 years.
Mr King blamed the sustained rise in inflation partly on sharp increases in food, electricity and gas prices over the past year, but also on businesses discovering a greater degree of pricing power as the economy continued to grow.
Rate rise certain after shock surge in inflation says the Guardian
The City is preparing for the Bank of England to increase interest rates as soon as next month - possibly by as much as half a percentage point - after a shock rise in inflation to a 10-year high.
Such a move would take borrowing costs to their highest for six years, and could finally halt the country's long-running housing boom which has been fuelled by a sustained period of low interest rates. An increase would also raise the financial burden on heavily indebted households and first-time buyers who have stretched themselves to get on the housing ladder.
Such a move would take borrowing costs to their highest for six years, and could finally halt the country's long-running housing boom which has been fuelled by a sustained period of low interest rates. An increase would also raise the financial burden on heavily indebted households and first-time buyers who have stretched themselves to get on the housing ladder.
The Express warns of
BIG MORTGAGE RISES COMING on its front page
While the Telegraph reports
Shoppers' delight as £ breaks $2 mark
The pound broke through the two dollar mark yesterday for the first time in nearly 15 years, prompting travel agents to predict an "explosion" of bargain hunting trips to America.
Yesterday's surge was triggered by the higher than expected inflation figures. At one point the pound reached $2.007 - a level not seen since June 1981.
The "buy one get one free" dollar is good news for British visitors at a time when return flights to New York cost as little as £260. However, HM Revenue and Customs warned travellers hoping to take advantage of the weak dollar not to bring too many bargains back to Britain as duty has to be paid on goods worth more than £145.
Yesterday's surge was triggered by the higher than expected inflation figures. At one point the pound reached $2.007 - a level not seen since June 1981.
The "buy one get one free" dollar is good news for British visitors at a time when return flights to New York cost as little as £260. However, HM Revenue and Customs warned travellers hoping to take advantage of the weak dollar not to bring too many bargains back to Britain as duty has to be paid on goods worth more than £145.
The Times reports on its front page that
Sellafield kept workers’ body parts for research
The Sellafield nuclear site secretly stored and tested the hearts, lungs and other organs of some of its former workers over a period of 30 years, The Times has learnt.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, body parts from at least 65 employees who worked at Britain’s biggest nuclear plant were taken to the site after postmortem examinations for radiation and were kept in freezers.
British Nuclear Group (BNG), which now runs Sellafield, claimed yesterday that in 61 cases the removal was done on the authority of a coroner. However, The Times understands that the families of the deceased were never informed and their consent not obtained. In four cases BNG has no record of any mandate at all. The body parts were destroyed by the testing process although some were kept for several months.
Alistair Darling, the Trade and Industry Secretary, will make an emergency statement to the Commons today. He is expected to launch an independent inquiry, the findings of which will be made public. BNG may have to comb through 20,000 medical records of deceased employees to determine the extent of the problem.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, body parts from at least 65 employees who worked at Britain’s biggest nuclear plant were taken to the site after postmortem examinations for radiation and were kept in freezers.
British Nuclear Group (BNG), which now runs Sellafield, claimed yesterday that in 61 cases the removal was done on the authority of a coroner. However, The Times understands that the families of the deceased were never informed and their consent not obtained. In four cases BNG has no record of any mandate at all. The body parts were destroyed by the testing process although some were kept for several months.
Alistair Darling, the Trade and Industry Secretary, will make an emergency statement to the Commons today. He is expected to launch an independent inquiry, the findings of which will be made public. BNG may have to comb through 20,000 medical records of deceased employees to determine the extent of the problem.
Most of the papers carry the story of the
81-year-old 'neighbour from hell' jailed
including the Guardian which says
She had been described by a judge as "the original neighbour from hell" because of her bizarre behaviour, including shouting abuse at neighbours and striking them with a walking stick. Yesterday Dorothy Evans, 81, from Abergavenny, south Wales, was jailed for six months for harassment and six breaches of an antisocial behaviour order.
The pensioner had made Angela and Roberto Casa's lives a misery. She told their 13-year-old daughter she was a witch and would cast a spell on her family and kill her pet dog. Mrs Casa had detailed several disputes, including rows over parking and problems with flooding
The pensioner had made Angela and Roberto Casa's lives a misery. She told their 13-year-old daughter she was a witch and would cast a spell on her family and kill her pet dog. Mrs Casa had detailed several disputes, including rows over parking and problems with flooding
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