In videos, which have been shown to the jury, a shot is initially heard while the defendant was in the bathroom, which later transpired to be him trying to shoot himself.
An armed police officer has told how he thought he was going to die as he was confronted by a gunman in a chilling incident that took place last year.
They later found he had drawn up a chilling 'kill list' of former classmates, teachers and police staff he wanted to target, a jury was told. The defendant survived but spent four months in hospital recovering from his injuries. Describing the scene, one of the firearms officers, known as L4, told the jury the defendant had asked if could go to the toilet.
"I had a degree of concern that I did not know what happened - so I shouted to him to come to the top of the stairs"I can recall saying things like 'drop the gun, put the gun down.' He didn't do that. He rushed down the stairs towards me. The gun was pointed directly towards me. Opening the case, prosecutor Jonathan Rees KC said over a "sustained period of time" the defendant had developed a "macabre interest in infamous killers" such as Thomas Hamilton, the Dunblane shooter, Raoul Moat, and an American cop killer.
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