The police officer Moat shot in the face may have been left permanently blinded.
Doctors battled for days to save PC David Rathband’s sight but he has now been told their efforts might not have succeeded.
Moat hit the 42-year-old father of two in the face and upper body when he fired twice into the side window of a police car.
The officer’s twin Darren said: “He was unarmed, parked, doing his job.
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“This coward has not only wrecked his life but the lives of so many people, including his children.”
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FORMER nightclub bouncer Raoul Moat was a drug-dealing thug with links to the Newcastle underworld.
He was a swaggering doorman in the city’s famous Bigg Market until he was caught carrying a knuckle-duster and 5ft Samurai sword in 2005.
And he used his extensive links to organised crime gangs in the city to obtain a sawn-off shotgun just hours after coming out of jail.
But despite his involvement in the Tyneside underworld, Moat’s first conviction came only this year when he was jailed for 18 weeks for assaulting a child.
Northumbria Police have confirmed Moat had also been arrested on 12 occasions and was charged with seven separate offences.
Five years ago, he stood trial at Newcastle Crown Court for having a knuckle-duster and an ornamental Japanese sword.
He boasted to the jury about his skills as a brawler and demonstrated the best way to inflict serious harm using the illegal weapons.
Misunderstood ? Hard done by ? A thug, a steroid riddled thug who didnt have the guts to face what he’d done and what the punishment would be. Why the police would be questioned at all I have no idea. It’s saved £40,000 a yr of taxpayers money at least.