Shoot me, Moat urged police gunman

Cornered killer Raoul Moat told the first officer to confront him: “Shoot me, f****** shoot me” while holding a sawn-off shotgun to his head, an inquest into his death heard today.

The officer said the maniac expressed his hatred of police but ended up apologising when he realised the firearms expert was from West Yorkshire and not the Northumbria force he detested.