Bully threatened to kill woman and 'become next Raoul Moat'

HE SAID HE WOULD CUT OFF HER HEAD

- By MARK NAYLOR

Christopher Fletcher

A MENACING bully who left a terrified woman fearing that she would be killed - after he threatened to murder her, cut her head off and “become the next Raoul Moat” - has been spared prison.

Aggressive boyfriend Christopher Fletcher warned her that he would “make the news the same night” and he likened himself to a notorious gunman who shot dead one man and wounded his ex-girlfriend and a policeman before shooting himself. The distressed woman feared that he was capable of carrying out his chilling threats, Hull Crown Court heard.

Fletcher, 40, of Dagger Lane, Hull, admitted making threats to kill the woman on August 14, 2023.

Jeremy Barton, prosecuting, told a previous hearing that the couple were in a relationship but there was an unhappy background between them and Fletcher took advantage of her. He made threats to the probation service that he was going to cause her great harm.

He threatened to cut her head off after murdering her and said that he would be “the next Raoul Moat” - a reference to the coldblooded gunman who shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend with a sawn-off shotgun, killed her new boyfriend and wounded and permanently blinded a policeman in 2010. He went on the run for nearly a week and later killed himself.