Killer Moat’s mum: He is not my son
Josephine, 73, still gets sent hate mail 10yrs on
THE mother of Raoul Moat has disowned him – almost 10 years after he went on the run as Britain’s Most Wanted Man. Josephine Healey, 73, told the Mirror: “He is not my son.”
And she added that the killer is causing her misery even after his death, as abusive messages are still posted through her door.
“I don’t want to talk about it,” she said. “I’ve had a lot of letters and things through the door. This has caused a lot of trouble for me.”
Moat was at the centre of a huge manhunt in July 2010 after shooting and wounding his ex Sam Stobbart, then 22, and killing her lover Chris Brown, 29, in Birtley, Gateshead.
The next day he shot PC David Rathband, 44, at point blank range as he sat in his patrol car in Newcastle, blinding him. The traffic officer tragically took his own life in 2012.
Josephine spoke about Moat at length when he was a fugitive, just days before he was cornered by police in Rothbury, Northumberland, where he killed himself.
She claimed the former bouncer, 37, turned from a shy, polite young boy into a raging monster hooked on bodybuilding steroids.
The family album shows him as a happy toddler playing with his toys and on the beach at Cresswell, Northumberland – just a few miles from where he died after eight days on the run.
Josephine married Moat’s stepfather, engineer Brian Healey, at Newcastle Civic Centre in 1986, with Moat happily posing on the steps for wedding snaps at the age of 13, alongside his half-brother Angus.
But as the years went by he changed and would fly suddenly into violent rages.
Josephine, of Tyneside, lost contact with him after he left home at 24, until 2007. The last time she saw him alive, he threatened her. “He pointed at me like a gun,” Josephine recalled in an interview while he was on the run. “He was threatening to kill me. It was like he was not my son.
“Why would he do that? He did not want anything to do with me.”
Josephine’s controversial claim that her killer son would be “better off dead” when he was fleeing justice sparked a family rift that has never been healed.
He pointed at me like a gun, he was threatening to kill me JOSEPHINE HEALEY ON LAST TIME SHE SAW SON