'This decision was yours. You forced me into a corner'

Video diary of a mass murderer: Cho Seung-Hui in the film and photographs he packaged and sent to US television network NBC in between the first and second shooting sprees

Tim Reid

AS soon as he had shot dead his first victims at 7.15am - and two hours before the massacre of 30 more at Virginia Tech - Cho Seung-Hui calmly ran a diabolical errand.

Leaving the bodies of Emily Hilscher and Ryan Clark, he returned to his room a short walk away. Once there, he stared into a camcorder to record the last of the QuickTime video clips that the world would watch in stunned horror 48 hours later, and downloaded all 27 files - 10 minutes of enraged and expletive-filled rantings against the rich and powerful - on to a DVD.