Raoul Moat's daughter breaks silence as she says he was always a 'monster'

Raoul Moat’s daughter Chantelle has broken her silence. She has spoken out to reveal the torture the killer inflicted on her, the Mirror reports.

Chantelle, 22, said she is sickened people hero worship her dad. Moat went on the rampage in 2010, shooting his ex-girlfriend, murdering her lover and then hunting down a police officer.

Chantelle said: "My father has always been a monster. That is all I have ever known him as. When I was young, there was no monster under my bed – he slept next door to me."

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She added: "If you idolise him you are idolising every woman beater, every child abuser and you’re practically making the situation into a joke. By idolising him they are saying his crimes are okay."

Brave Chantelle put her father behind bars. Days after he was freed from his 18-week sentence for assaulting her, the former bouncer armed himself with a sawn-off shotgun and blasted his ex Samantha Stobbart. Moat shot dead her boyfriend, Chris Brown, 29, then declared war on Northumbria Police, phoning to say: “They’ve hunted me for years, now it’s my turn.”

As officers searched for him he shot PC David Rathband in the face, blinding him. The officer took his own life in 2012 aged 44.

When Moat, 37, was cornered in Rothbury, Northumberland, he killed himself. Chantelle was being guarded at a police station. On her mum breaking the news her dad had died, Chantelle said: “I’d have been nine or 10. I didn’t cry, I said, ‘we’re finally safe’.”

Her terrifying dad had invented dozens of cruel punishments for her. It included being forced to stand in heavy rain