Video: Moat asked social workers for help
Thursday 15th July 2010, 11:30AM BST.
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Gunman Raoul Moat told social workers he wanted to see a psychiatrist in case he had a “problem”, it has emerged.
Months before he shot a policeman, his ex-partner and killed her new boyfriend, the former nightclub doorman said he wanted help.
The picture of an increasingly paranoid Moat, 37, emerges in taped recordings he made with social workers and the police from July 2009 until around April this year. They were released by a friend of Moat.
In one conversation last year he described himself as emotionally unstable.
“I’m quite emotionally unstable you know, I get myself over-the-top happy sometimes you know,” he is heard to say.
“And I have my bad days you know, erm, I’ve done it all my life that when things going on that you don’t like you block things out.
“The more you block things out the more numb you become in the heart you know, you get to a point where happiness to you is just like, you know, neither here nor there.”
Problem
The recordings were provided to the media by a friend of the steroid-addicted bodybuilder.
In a recording made by Moat from a meeting in August 2009 – attended by a social worker – he said: “I would like to have, erm, a psychiatrist, psychologist, have a word with me regularly, on a regular basis to see if there’s somewhere underlying like where I have problems that I haven’t seen.
“You know, it’s easy for me to say I don’t do anything wrong but I would like a professional, you know, not a DIY thing you know?
“A professional thing for someone to come along and say look there’s area for improvement here. This is a problem.”
Meanwhile, Moat was stopped last year while driving his van by the policeman he later shot and injured, it was revealed today.
Constable David Rathband, admitted he felt “intimidated” at the time.
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