Gunman Raoul Moat was a police informer

[Jan Klimkowski]

Killer Raoul Moat 'worked as police informer'

Jul 12 2010 Evening Chronicle

FUGITIVE killer Raoul Moat worked as a police informer for years before he was finally put behind bars, it has been claimed.

Friends and former criminal associates told yesterday how Moat had evaded justice for 10 years despite serious criminal charges against him.

As far back as 2000 he faced a case of conspiracy to commit murder but was not charged.

He was later found with a knuckle duster and admitted possessing an offensive weapon when he appeared before the courts – but received the lightest possible sentence, an absolute discharge.

He was eventually locked up for assault on a minor.

Moat’s former associate Brian Moulding, 29, claimed he discovered his friend was a police informer when he provided evidence to police for a prosecution against him.

He said: “Look at his record. See how many times he was arrested on serious charges, and escaped with a slap on the wrist. He was getting preferential treatment from the courts because he was useful to the police.”

The former bouncer, who killed himself after more than a week on the run as Britain’s most wanted man, was jailed for 18 weeks earlier this year for assault on a minor. He refused to deal with his probation officers and ended up in Durham jail.

Northumbria Police declined to comment on Moat’s past due to the ongoing Independent Police Complaints Commission probe into the case.

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