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.

A controversial webpage dedicated to gunman Raoul Moat on Facebook has been removed.

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.

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

Police in England were tonight facing an investigation into their handling of the manhunt for Raoul Moat as further details of the tense six-hour stand off with the gunman emerged.

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.

Fugitive gunman Raoul Moat has written another letter while on the run – this time to his ex-girlfriend, police in the UK revealed today.

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