Irish Daily Mirror

Cops’ killer murdered ex-lag first Drug dealer battered then 3 more shot

- BY AMY-CLARE MARTIN mirrornews@mirror.co.uk

THIS lot of fierce creatures could end up doing bird with Swanzilla.

Yesterday’s

Mirror told how

Albert the swan attacks kayakers in Tiverton, Devon.

And he’s not the only hot-headed creature. This camel got its teeth into tourist Justine’s head as she tried for a selfie in Australia.

And golfer Isaac Couling, 16, thought his goose was cooked when an air strike sent him flying. Not the birdie he was after. Swan strike THE killer of two police officers murdered a convicted drug dealer the night before he launched his gun rampage in Liege.

Alleged jihadi Benjamin Herman, 31, reportedly bludgeoned Michael Wilmet, 30, with a hammer before killing three more people in the Belgian city.

They had met while in prison. Confirming Herman’s first kill was 50 miles outside Liege, interior minister Jan Jambon said: “There are signs he was radicalise­d in prison, but did it drive him to commit these acts?

“It could have been he had nothing to look forward to, he killed someone the night before... he may have been on drugs.”

Herman – on two-day prison leave – went on to slaughter two policewome­n with their own guns on Tuesday, before opening fire on a 22-year-old passerby. Herman was shot dead by police after going on to take a cleaner hostage in a city centre school. Yesterday Bernadette Hennart wept as she lay tributes to her daughter, policewoma­n Soraya Belkacemi, 53. Soraya, mum to 13-year-old twins, was killed alongside Lucile Garcia, 45. The grieving father of Cyril Vangriecke­n, 22, an aspiring teacher from Vottem, near Liege, called him “perfect”. Reports say he was shot in his mum’s car. Mr Jambon said Herman, convicted of drug offences, was flagged up as a potential violent Islamist in recent security reports but was thought to be a fringe figure. Prosecutor­s said there was evidence this was a “terrorist murder”. Justice minister Koen Geens said he felt “responsibl­e”, adding: “I have to examine my own conscience.” Soraya and Lucile

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