Police used untested stun gun on Moat

TWO policemen fired powerful new electric stun guns that have yet to be officially approved at fugitive gunman Raoul Moat at around the time he killed himself after a six-hour standoff, investigators said yesterday.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission, investigating the 37-year-old’s death, said it was unclear whether police delivered the shocks before or after Moat shot himself.

Two officers from the West Yorkshire force shot Moat with an XRep Taser, a wireless round fired from a shotgun that delivers a shock designed to incapacitate. “This is understood to have been in an effort to prevent Mr Moat taking his own life,” the IPCC said in a statement. “The precise sequence of events regarding the discharge of the Tasers has not been established.”