Family of gunman Moat await post-mortem result

SCIENTISTS have yet to reach a conclusion on how shotgun murderer Raoul Moat died, his family claimed yesterday.

A pathologist is continuing his examination of the former bouncer's body after beginning a second post-mortem on Tuesday. More tests are to be done before the post-mortem's findings are made public.

His uncle, Charlie Alexander, and tax inspector brother Angus paid 600 for the second post-mortem. An initial probe carried out the day after Moat, 37, died near the riverbank in Rothbury, Northumberland, found the cause of death to be a gunshot wound consistent with the weapon he was carrying.

But after seeing Moat's body and hearing police marksmen fired Tasers at him, the family fear the father-of-three, of Fenham, Newcastle, might not have taken his own life. He was tracked down by police a week after shooting dead his former girlfriend Samantha Stobbart's boyfriend Chris Brown, 29, and critically injuring the 22-year-old shortly after release from jail.

Former soldier Mr Alexander, 72, a widower from, Gateshead, said: "I don't want to presume anything.

"We just want some answers."