Cold and calculating Peter Moore relished his exploits as he recounted the catalogue of murders and other violent crimes to detectives soon after his arrest in December 1995.
The Bagillt cinema owner dubbed the 'man in black' was a psychopathic serial killer and the 'most dangerous man to set foot in North Wales'
Moore was a respectable businessman and Bagillt cinema owner by day, a psychopathic sexual predator by night and was dubbed “the man in black” after committing a series of violent sexual assaults on men culminating in the murder of four men in the space of three months in 1995.
During extensive police interviews Moore, now 75, and formerly of Kinmel Bay, admitted to more than 17 attacks over 20 years. While none of them were homicidal he caused serious injuries to several people.
'The man in black - black thoughts and black deeds'
Former Detective Constable Dave Morris, who arrested Moore, said: “He was a very dangerous man, one of the most dangerous men I ever met in my time as a police officer.”
He liked to wear black leather when lurking at the meeting places of gay men.
“The man in black - black thoughts and the blackest of deeds,” barrister Alex Carlile QC told a jury as he opened the prosecution case against Moore at Mold Crown Court in November 1996.
Mr Carlile said Moore had met the victims by chance. He expected to be caught after ending his killing spree with the murder of his bank manager.
His first victim was John Henry Roberts, 56, a retired railway worker who lived in semi-isolation and squalor in a small farmhouse on the outskirts of Caergeiliog near Holyhead.
Moore had an enthusiasm for Nazi paraphernalia
Mr Roberts coincidentally shared with his killer an enthusiasm for Nazi paraphernalia.
The court heard Mr Roberts tried to protest he was not Jewish, as Moore launched 27 blows with a combat knife he had bought a few days earlier for £25.
The body was left in the yard outside the home and was not found immediately.
Leading a major manhunt, Detective Supt Eric Jones admitted police had few clues about a motive for the killing. The whole area was stunned. People who knew Mr Roberts described him as a harmless “village eccentric” who wouldn’t hurt a fly.
Mr Roberts had a pet Labrador dog which was found inside the house.
A month later, Keith Randles, 49, a security manager, opened the door of his caravan late at night on a construction site at Mona near Llangefni to be attacked by Moore, who stabbed him 12 times.
Mr Randles, of Tarvin Road, Chester was described as “an ordinary, harmless, conscientious man who had a reputation for shy good humour".
He had been living in a caravan on a compound alongside the A5 at the time of the attack.
Moore told one of his victims he was attacking them 'for fun'
At about 9.30pm on November 29 he had gone to a fish and chip shop, and that was the last time he had been seen alive. At about 2.45am, a man driving from Holyhead had seen a Ford Transit van near roadworks.
”Mr Randles’ misfortune was to be living on the defendant’s route home. Henry Roberts had suffered the same misfortune,” said Mr Carlile.
When workmen had arrived at the site at 7.30am they found Mr Randles’ body near the caravan.
Moore later told police when Mr Randles asked why he was being attacked, he was told it was for fun.
In December, Tony Davies, 35, drove to Pensarn Beach near Colwyn Bay, a meeting place near his home for homosexual men. Moore told detectives he had been cruising the area when he saw Mr Davies expose himself.
Mr Carlile said Moore killed him with six stabs. Blood found on the beach was matched by DNA profile to Moore. The wound had been caused as Mr Davies fought for his life.
A knife belonging to Moore had the blood of several men on it
When police searched Moore’s home they found items belonging to his victims both in the house and in a garden pond.
A knife bearing traces of the blood of a number of men was found in a bag belonging to Moore.
The jury sat in silence as a police video showed them two blood spattered murder scenes and inside Moore’s home.
There was an incongruous mixture of chintz curtains, a pair of fluffy toy kittens on a bed, a Nazi flag, handcuffs and military uniforms.
As jurors, advocates, reporters and the public watched the screens placed around the court, Moore leaned forward in the dock, his hands clasped, and rarely took his eyes of the images in front of him.
The walls of the living-room inside Darlington House, Moore’s home in St Asaph Avenue, Kinmel Bay, were decorated with strings of Christmas cards. Crackers lay on the sideboard.
His final victim was stabbed to death and buried in dense forest near Ruthin
Two recent copies of the Daily Post were shown both carrying front-page stories on the murder of Tony Davies.
On a shelf in Moore’s bedroom were a police helmet, two German military caps and a pair of long, black boots. Hanging on a cupboard alongside the bed was a truncheon and a sergeant’s uniform hung in the wardrobe.
Moore’s other victim was killed between October and December 1995.
Edward Carthy, 28, from Birkenhead, was a drug addict and alcoholic whom Moore met in a Liverpool bar.
The pair drove to North Wales where Mr Carthy was stabbed to death and buried in dense forest near Ruthin. Moore later drew police a diagram locating the body.
Mr Carlisle said Moore was a dominant homosexual, a violent and predatory sadist who drew sexual satisfaction from causing pain and suffering. By day he appeared only to be an unremarkable businessman, Mr Carlile said.
But he added: “The nocturnal Peter Moore was one of the most dangerous people ever to have set foot in Wales.”
Even Moore’s own barrister, Eric Somerset Jones QC said: ”I hold no brief for Moore’s way of life. On his own admission he is a bad man.”
'I consider you as dangerous a man as it is possible to find'
Giving evidence Moore claimed the crimes were committed by a homosexual lover he nicknamed “Jason” after the killer in the Friday the 13th horror films.
The jury of eight men and four women took two hours thirty-five minutes to find him guilty.
Jailing him Mr Justice Maurice Kay said he will recommend that Moore spends the rest of his life behind bars. The judge told Moore: ”You were responsible for four sadistic murders in the space of three months.
”None of the victims had done you the slightest bit of harm.
”At no stage have you shown the slightest remorse or regret for the killings. Nor for the 20 years of terror and violence that preceded them. I consider you to be as dangerous a man as it is possible to find.
“I shall have to report to the Secretary of State, advising him of my view as to the earliest date that you should be considered for release.
“I don’t want you or anybody else to be in the slightest doubt as to what I shall say. In a word: Never.”
see-http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/crime-files-reopened-peter-moore-10621887
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