Secret tapes revealed paranoid thoughts of killer Moat

wore a hidden wire every time he visited Etal Lane Police Station after being arrested on suspicion of assaulting a child. He also taped telephone conversations with officers.

Each recording reveals the extent of his paranoia and the way his twisted mind convinced him the police were out to get him.

On October 12, 2009, he recorded a meeting with a detective. Before entering Etal Lane Police Station he speaks into his mic, saying: “I have just had two CID at the door trying to work their ticket in some way. I’ll sharp find out what it’s about.”

On arriving in the station Moat, who had left his job as a doorman to become a tree surgeon says: “What have I done this time?”

But the female detective tells him that police have received information that suggests someone has threatened to hurt him.

“Is this an anonymous phone call or something?” he asks. “Am I looking at getting potshots or is it just funny divvies?

“Am I looking at petrol through the letterbox? If we are looking at knives or guns its something I have to consider.

“It’s not gonna be fisticuffs because then the only one that’ll come a cropper is them.

“I’m not as young as I used to be and I’m not as quick as I used to be. I might get it this time.

“I have been sat in that house. I haven’t been up to anything. For a man who cuts trees, I seem to be getting into a lot of trouble.”

And in a phone call several days later, Moat tells the detective that he only knows of two individuals who he has a rift with.

He goes on to accuse the woman of trying to goad him into attacking one of these people to make it easier for police to convict him of the assault charge hanging over him.

“You are holding back and not telling us something,” he said.

“You might as well have not told us, you would have been better off not telling us. You see this has got the possibility of flaring something up.

“I think this is a deliberate attempt to get me wound up.”

The detective refutes Moat’s claims, saying she was simply trying to warn him that threats had been made against him and that she had no more specific information to give him.

But Moat then suggests that the officer is trying to encourage him to buy a weapon, and ignores her when she says this is not the case at all.

“How would you advise me to protect myself under the vague circumstances?” he continues.

“Without giving us a nod nod wink wink and carry something with us at all times?

“I’m not the kind for carrying weapons, I don’t do that, but I have not been given anything I can work on.

“It’s not like I drink locally where I could upset somebody. I haven’t had much of a life recently.”

Moat also accuses police of taking too long to investigate the assault allegation against him and thus preventing him from seeing his children.

And he says detectives have failed to gather all the evidence that could be used in his defence.

In a meeting with a detective inspector, he says: “I have just felt the investigation has been deliberately slow.

“I have seen how quick you can have me at the station.

“I have had a lot of trouble with police officers from this station.

“There’s an officer with 10 years of bad history with me.”