FANS of gunman Raoul Moat have been using their children to recreate the killers final moments.

Witnesses have seen families posing on the banks of the River Coquet where the former doorman shot himself after a six-hour stand-off with armed police.

Neighbours watched parents urging their children, some as young as five, to lie on the ground and pretend to point a gun to their heads, while they took photos.

Christine Williams, 39, who lives less than 100 yards from where Moat shot himself dead, said villagers were appalled.

She said people in the once-idyllic community were sick of the intrusion caused by Moats ghoulish followers.

She told a local radio station: I know people are curious.

When parents get their children to come in and lie down and pretend they have got a gun to their heads, to use their arm as a gun.

That part of it is quite sick.

I was downstairs and I looked out the window one day and I saw it happen.

There was a mother there taking pictures with her husband and three children, one of whom was about five.

One was kneeling with his hand pointing under his chin and they were striking different poses.

You still see it all the time here.

Why cant it all just be forgotten about now and let be?

The killer, who was jailed for beating up a child, went on the run after shooting dead an unarmed man and maiming his ex-girlfriend.

He then shot and blinded another unarmed man, father-of-two Pc David Rathband, who was working a night shift as a traffic officer for Northumbria Police.

Moat then killed himself following a six-hour stand-off in Rothbury, Northumberland.