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.

Gun maniac Raoul Moat warned his ex-girlfriend he was “going to go crazy” after she told him she wanted him out of her life, an inquest heard today.

Two men who helped crazed gunman Raoul Moat during his shotgun rampage which left a man dead and a police officer blinded were jailed for life in the UK today.

Two men were facing jail today after they were convicted of being gunman Raoul Moat's henchmen during his shooting spree.

A mother wept as she described the moment gunman Raoul Moat shot dead her daughter’s boyfriend today.

Residents of the town where where British murderer Raoul Moat ended his life were furious today after it emerged his ashes were scattered close by.

The policeman blinded by gunman Raoul Moat was expected to leave hospital today as officers continued to question four people arrested on suspicion of helping the fugitive.

The former girlfriend of killer Raoul Moat described today the “five minutes of hell” as he blasted her and her new boyfriend with a shotgun.

Police officers hunting for Raoul Moat were “excited” by the arrival of new Tasers just hours before they entered a stand-off with the fugitive gunman, it was reported today.

The British police officer injured by Raoul Moat has described how the gunman stared coldly into his eyes moments before he shot him in the face – leaving him blind.

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.

British police faced more questions today over their use of Tasers during the violent end to the stand-off with gunman Raoul Moat.

Northumbria Police had hoped to be able to take Raoul Moat into custody alive, without any further bloodshed.

British police fired a Taser stun gun during the dramatic last stand by gunman Raoul Moat, Northumbria Police Temporary Chief Constable Sue Sim said today.

Gunman Raoul Moat killed himself overnight, after a six-hour stand-off with British police. It marked the end of a week-long manhunt.

Fugitive Raoul Moat is tonight in a stand-off with armed police.

Witness Paula Mason said her mother could see British fugitive Raoul Moat sitting with a gun pointed to his head outside her house in the town of Rothbury in Northumbria this evening.

Detectives in Britain were tonight trying to unravel a network of accomplices suspected of harbouring gunman Raoul Moat as he widened his deadly threats from police to the public.

Fugitive gunman Raoul Moat has threatened the public as well as the police, it emerged today.

Two men appeared in court in Britain today accused of being part of fugitive gunman Raoul Moat’s conspiracy to hunt down and kill policemen.

Britain’s most wanted man remained at large for a sixth day today as his mother said her son would be “better off dead”.

Police in the UK were facing questions over the handling of the hunt for fugitive gunman Raoul Moat today after it emerged that several opportunities were missed to intercept the former nightclub bouncer.

Armed police were scouring miles of countryside in England today as the net closed in on suspected killer Raoul Moat.

The “net was closing” on gunman Raoul Moat today after police in the UK detained two men they had feared he was holding hostage.

Police in the UK hunting shooting suspect Raoul Moat shut down a two-mile area around a village today.

Fugitive Raoul Moat vowed not to stop killing "till I'm dead" as he declared "war" on the police in a letter passed to a newspaper.

BRITISH police were warned by prison staff that suspected gunman Raoul Moat may have been planning to harm his ex-girlfriend the day before he allegedly shot her and killed her new boyfriend.

Police in the UK were warned by prison staff that suspected gunman Raoul Moat may have been planning to harm his ex-girlfriend the day before he allegedly shot her and killed her new boyfriend.