Raoul Moat’s ex-lover deliberately wound him up hours before he launched his murderous rampage, the killer’s best friend told an inquest today.

Family and friends gathered to pay tribute to fugitive killer Raoul Moat at his funeral today.

Gunman Raoul Moat would have eventually surrendered to police and “passed his gun over”, one of his friends said today.

GUNMAN Raoul Moat was “no psycho” and may have killed himself in an “involuntary reaction” to being Tasered by police, his brother said last night.

Angus Moat today criticised British police officers for refusing to allow him to talk to his younger brother Raoul during a tense six-hour stand-off with police which ended with his apparent suicide.