Uber `devil' killer faces life in prison

THE trial begins this week of a taxi driver who killed six people after a “devil figure” on the Uber taxi app “took control of his mind”.

Troubled Jason Dalton is charged with murder and attempted murder after the shooting spree in Michigan, in February 2016.

He's accused of shooting eight people in three locations in the Kalamazoo area while he was picking up customers for taxi firm Uber.

Police quoted Dalton as saying a “devil figure” on Uber's app was controlling him.

The trial, which is due to start tomorrow, was delayed while Dalton's lawyers tried to prevent some of their client's statements made to cops being used in court.

The Michigan appeals court agreed that some of the more outlandish ones can't be used.

The trial is expected to last two weeks and Dalton faces up to life in prison without parole if convicted of murder.