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Toby Harnden

Toby Harnden

in Washington DC

Toby Harnden has been The Daily Telegraph's US Editor since 2006. He lives in Washington DC with his wife Cheryl, daughter Tessa and dog Finn. Toby was previously Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph. He first joined The Daily Telegraph in 1994 and has been its Ireland Correspondent, Washington Bureau Chief and Middle East Correspondent. He is the author of Bandit Country: The IRA & South Armagh (1999). An archive of his work is at www.tobyharnden.com. Story ideas and news tips are welcomed and Toby can be contacted at toby.harnden@telegraph.co.uk. His Facebook profile is here.

"Psy-Cho": the high school connection

Does the key to the Virginia Tech massacre lie not here in Blacksburg but 250 miles away at Westfield High School, where Cho Seung-hui was cruelly taunted and which two of his female victims had also attended?

Virginia Tech students
George Mason University students hold a vigil for the victims

It has just emerged that Cho had stalked a third female from Westfield High on the Virginia Tech campus. Westfield, a highly-rated school in an affluent area, hit the headlines last year when Michael Kennedy, an 18-year-old deranged former pupil, shot two police officers dead .

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