Cinema site once run by notorious serial killer Peter Moore has been sold

A FORMER cinema site once run by a notorious serial killer has been sold after lying empty for decades. ‘the cinema - initially named the Scala - was opened in Denbigh back in 1928.

- By OWEN HUGHES Chief Reporter owen.hughes@dailypost co.uk

It later became the Wedgwood Cinema in the late 1970s before closing and then reopening as the Futura in the 1980s. ‘Ihe cinema closed again in the early 1990s before being revived by aman named Peter Moore.

He was praised at the time for reviving a small local cinema - a place where couples and families would visit. It was one of a chain of cinemas he operated, with others in Bagillt, Holyhead and Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Moore was known as an eccentric local figure who always wore black but no one suspected the horrors he was committing away from the auditorium.

In the early hours of Christmas Eve morning, 1995, at Llandudno police station the Nazi-obsessed Moore admitted a three-month Killing spree that left four dead. It had begun on Anglesey in September, in a spree that terrorised the gay community in North Wales and Merseyside.

He later withdrew the confession and pleaded not guilty at his trial but was convicted.