Fugitive tries to justify murder in letter to ex

FUGITIVE gunman Raoul Moat attempted to justify the murder of his ex-girlfriend’s new partner in a letter left for police at his moorland hideout, it was revealed yesterday.

An eight-page handwritten note left for Samantha Stobbart explained Moat, 37, believed the victim was a police officer.

It was found by police searching countryside around Rothbury, in Northumbria, where the former bouncer has been living rough.