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Raoul Moat

Facebook refuses to remove Moat fan pages

FACEBOOK SAYS IT will not remove tribute pages set up for Raoul Moat, the man UK police believe shot three people in a town near Newcastle, killing one. Specialist officers were engaged in a seven-day hunt for Moat before he shot himself on . British PM David Cameron said he couldn’t understand public sympathy for Moat, saying: “There should be no sympathy for him.”