The sister of Raoul Moat's ex-girlfriend has revealed how the notorious killer's controlling and aggressive tendencies still haunt her to this day.
37-year-old Raoul's terrifying rampage in July 2010 saw him shoot his ex, Samantha Stobbart, murder her new lover, Chris Brown, and gun down a police officer.
His campaign of violence, which included a vow to kill as many police officers as possible, triggered one of Britain's most infamous manhunts, which cost £1.4 million, involved 160 armed police officers, and put the town of Rothbury, Northumberland, on lockdown.
Speaking in an upcoming Prime Video documentary, Raoul Moat: Inside the Mind of a Killer, Samantha's sister, Kelly Stobbart, recalled his manipulative ways and how she views them today - before explaining that his violent nature became clear from early on.
'I believe he has split personality... he could be a nice person, but he could also be a horrible person,' she said.
'When Samantha first met Raoul, she was a good hairdresser. It must've been tough because she gave up her hairdressing job, and all of a sudden, she was just in the house all the time.
Samantha was just 15 when she first met the head bouncer at Newcastle's Liquid & Envy club. A year later, the pair began a relationship when he was almost twice her age at 31.
Kelly continued, 'Raoul was keeping her away from people. I don't believe she had any friends when she was with him.'
'I remember at one point, they had a disagreement, and he had slapped her or something, and she wanted out, she wanted breathing space, so she had come to mine.
'And that's when the phone calls started. It was non-stop, like every time she'd put the phone down, he would ring again.
'One time when Sam was with my nana, he went to my nanas, and he had a gun. He threatened her with a gun. It showed me what he was capable of doing.
She concluded,'I think the only way she broke free from him was when he ended up going to prison.'
Moat became Britain's most wanted fugitive after he went on the run for seven days before taking his own life in a stand-off with armed police in July 2010.
He had murdered Christopher Brown, 29, who was dating Moat's ex-partner Samantha, who he also shot and wounded in the street in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
The former nightclub bouncer then shot and blinded PC David Rathband, who tragically took his own life two years later aged 44.
Moat threatened to target more police officers after launching into his murderous rampage following his release from prison.
He was released from Durham Prison on July 1, 2010, having served an 18-week sentence for assaulting a child.
After killing one person and wounding two others in a two-day shooting spree, Raoul Moat (pictured), 37, managed to evade the police for days by camping out in the Northumbrian countryside
Raoul was possessive of his much younger girlfriend, Samantha Stobbart, after he relentlessly pursued her when she was just 15 (pictured together)
Raoul Moat's horrific final days before dramatic six-hour stand off
- Thursday, July 1: Moat is released from Durham prison after serving 18 weeks for assault
- Friday, July 2: Prison staff warn police Moat may want to harm Samantha Stobbart
- Saturday, July 3: Moat shoots dead Miss Stobbart’s new boyfriend Chris Brown outside her home in Birtley, Gateshead and also injures her. Manhunt is launched for Moat
- Sunday, July 4: Pc David Rathband is shot in his patrol car and critically injured. Moat rings officers claiming Miss Stobbart was having an affair with a police officer
- Monday, July 5: Manhunt for Moat continues
- Tuesday, July 6: Moat’s car is discovered in Rothbury, Northumberland and police flood the area setting up a two-mile exclusion zone. A letter written by Moat reveals his intentions to declare war on the police
- Wednesday, July 7: Officers find a tent where Moat had been sleeping and another letter from him
- Thursday, July 8: Police say Moat had made threats to the general public and two men were arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender and bailed
- Friday, July 9: At 7pm Moat comes out from his hiding place and reporters watch as he lies on the ground with a gun threatening to kill himself. Police try to negotiate with him for six hours
- Saturday, July 10: A gunshot is heard at 1.10am and Moat is declared dead after being rushed to hospital. Police said Moat appeared to have killed himself
While in prison, his girlfriend Samantha, 15 years his junior and mother to his daughter Chanel, told him that she had a new partner, karate instructor Chris.
Knowing Moat had a violent temper, Samantha tried to protect them by saying Brown was a policeman.
Moat wrote on Facebook: 'Gonna lose my home and lost my Mrs of nearly 6 years to a copper. Like they haven't fd my life enough over the years. I've lost everything... watch and see what happens.'
On July 3, after a night out, Samantha and Chris were at a friend's house in Birtley on the outskirts of Newcastle. Moat was crouched down outside an open window armed with a sawn-off shotgun listening to the conversations inside.
His daughter Chanel was asleep upstairs. Samantha kissed Chris goodbye as he left the house. Suddenly, Moat appeared and shot Chris twice at close range, then reloaded and fired a fatal shot to his head.
Samantha ran inside and Moat fired at her through a window, hitting her in the arm and stomach. He watched Samantha crawl out of the room then ran to his car.
Police then announced they were trying to trace Raoul in connection with the shootings and warned the public not to approach him.
Less than 24 hours after shooting Samantha and Chris, the gunman crept up on unarmed PC David Rathband as he sat in his patrol car by a roundabout in Newcastle.
The 37-year-old former doorman shot the father-of-two twice in the face. In March 2009, PC Rathband had interviewed Moat under caution in the back of his police car for driving a van that was uninsured to carry scrap metal.
After the shooting spree, Moat went on the run for a week, assisted by two accomplices. Northumbria Police organised a mass manhunt which included 160 armed officers.
Moat managed to evade the police for days by camping out in the Northumbrian countryside.
As snipers focused their sights on Raoul, footballer Paul Gascoigne made a bizarre appearance, turning up with beer and chicken as he begged officers to allow him to help the killer following a drink and drug binge.
Moat was located by a riverbank but after a six-hour standoff with the police, he shot himself. He was rushed to Newcastle General Hospital and was pronounced dead by doctors.
Samantha had spent six years with Moat before he tried to murder her with a shotgun.
Describing the horror in court in 2011, Ms Stobbart said: 'It all happened so quickly. Chris walked in front of me. Raoul then shot him. Chris went down on to the grass. Raoul was shouting. He then went to point the gun at my legs.
'I ran back to the house. I couldn't see anybody. I was panicking because my daughter was upstairs. I couldn't find the keys (to lock the door).
'Jackie was hiding in the kitchen; Karl was hiding in the bathroom; my mum was upstairs.
'She had the children and was getting them in the loft. I looked out of the window and it was done.
'I just remember Chris slouch down on to his knees and then from what I remember I got shot. I didn’t fall to the ground straight away. It took 20 seconds and then I just collapsed. I remember blood pumping out of my arm and my chest.'
The shotgun cartridge penetrated her left arm and entered her abdomen. Samantha was rushed to the nearby Queen Elizabeth hospital in Gateshead, where she was left fighting for her life.
On July 5, 2010, she was declared to no longer be in a critical condition following the attack, and left hospital on July 17.
On the same day, she issued a direct appeal to Moat, who was in hiding having gone on the run. She said: ‘Please give yourself up. If you still loved me and our baby you would not be doing this.’
Later that year, she told The News of the World how there had been ‘nothing’ she could do ‘against a madman with a gun’.
Raoul Moat: Inside the Mind of a Killer explores how Moat's troubled upbringing and how actions continue to impact the community today.
Raoul Moat: Inside the Mind of a Killer is available on Prime Video UK & IE from 12th October.