FUGITIVE British killer Raoul Moat has “declared war” on police, vowing to keep on killing officers until he dies.
The steroid-addicted bouncer compared himself to cartoon character The Hulk and vowed to continue his homicidal rampage, in a handwritten confession, which he delivered to the door of a friend.
“The public need not fear me, but the police should as I won’t stop till I’m dead,” he said in a 49-page letter. “They took it all from me, kids, freedom, house, then Sam and Chanel. Where could I go from there? Obviously, I have issues, but I was pushed. I never beat my kids.”
Police were warned that Moat, 37, posed a serious threat to his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, 22, the day before he shot her and killed her new boyfriend, Chris Brown, 29, at a house in Gateshead, in the northeast of England.
Moat also described how he waited for 90 minutes, crouching underneath a living-room window, and listening to the couple talk about him, before launching his attack in the early hours of Saturday.
“For an hour and a half, I listened to them mocking me. If I was ever going to back down, listening to them stopped that.
“At 2.30am, they came out. I shot him in the chest and he ran off. Sam screamed and tried to stop me as I gave chase.
“I fired the second and he went down. I reloaded two customised rounds. One for Sam. One for him.”
He added that he only intended to scar the mother of his child, so she would never be able to wear a bikini again, but insisted that he still loved her.
“With a superficial injury, she would get massive compensation payout for her and Chanel’s future. I still love her despite everything, but my head is a mess right now and I know I’m too far gone to make much sense of it. I’ve slept one hour per night for three weeks now.”
Talking of his uncontrollable rages, in the confession, reproduced by The Sun, Moat says: “It’s like The Hulk, it takes over and it’s more than anger and it happens only when I’m hurt and this time, I was really hurt.”
Moat also threatened the medical staff currently working to save Ms Stobbart’s life. “Those doctors better save her or I’ll hit that hospital,” he wrote.
“I guess I’ve finally lost it. I’m not on the run. I will keep on killing police until I am dead. They’ve hunted me for years, now it’s my turn.”
Andy Mcallister, the friend to whom Moat handed his confession letters, said the fugitive had called twice at his door, and described the encounters as “chilling”.
Mr Mcallister, 45, from Kenton, Newcastle, said his bodybuilder friend first turned up on his doorstep on Saturday about an hour before he shot, through the closed passenger window of his police vehicle, David Rathband, a traffic constable on routine duty in Newcastle.
The horrific extent of the policeman’s injuries were revealed yesterday in photographs, released with consent of his family, of his bloodstained face. He remains in hospital in “remarkable spirits”, police said.
Mr Mcallister said: “I’d spent all night seeing his face flash up on the news. Then suddenly he was on my doorstep. I said ‘What’s happening?’ He said ‘I just want to tell you my side before things get twisted’. He wasn’t shouting. There was absolutely no emotion. But that made it all the more chilling.
“I told him he should hand himself in. I even said I’d go with him to police. But he said ‘No, I’ve got nothing left, Andy — and I fully intend to take as many police as I can with me’.”
Moat asked for a mobile phone and left after half an hour before going on to shoot Constable Rathband. Mr Mcallister was questioned by police for most of Sunday and returned home to be confronted by Moat again in the early hours of Monday. Mr Mcallister said: “He told me ‘That’s everything — that’s my murder statement. I will keep killing till I’m dead.’ “
Moat left when he heard a police helicopter and shook his friend’s hand saying “Have a good life”.
Earlier, it emerged that Moat, a former club doorman, had told an inmate at Durham prison what he intended to do before he was freed from his 18-week sentence for assault on Thursday.
Prison authorities were informed about the boast to the inmate on Friday, the day after Moat’s release, sources said.
Moat was driven not only by jealousy but by a hatred of the police. He blames Northumbria Police for his problems over access to his two daughters from a previous relationship, and for his latest prison term.
It also emerged that Ms Stobbart had told Moat she was in a relationship with a police officer to keep him at bay. The lie simply fuelled his paranoia.
Ms Stobbart gave an emotional appeal through the police from her hospital bed. She said: “Please give yourself up. If you still love me and our baby, you would not be doing this any more. When you came out of jail, I told you I was seeing a police officer. I said this because I was frightened. I have not been seeing a police officer.”
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