A SERIAL killer from Kinmel Bay who murdered four men for sexual pleasure in the space of a few months has been told by a High Court judge that he will die in prison.
Former Flintshire owner Peter Howard Moore was found guilty of four counts of murder in November, 1996 and was jailed for life.
The Lord Chief Justice later recommended a minimum term of 30 years, but said it may never be safe to release him.
In Se
ptember 2002 the then Home Secretary, David Blunkett, said he should never be freed, and yesterday, after reviewing the case at London's High Court, Mr Justice Teare said the gravity of Moore's offences justified a "whole life order", a tariff reserved for a handful of the most dangerous criminals in the country.
The 61-year-old former theatre and cinema manager, who ran the cinema which once stood in Bagillt, and who has never shown any remorse for what he did, will join the likes of Ian Brady and Dennis Nilsen in knowing that he will die behind bars.
Lawyers for Moore had argued that he should receive a minimum term of just 30 years, and a whole life tariff would be a breach of his human rights.
But Mr Justice Teare ruled he was too dangerous to ever be freed.
The court heard that Moore carried out his murders between September and December, 1995 in North Wales.
On September 23, 1995, he attacked Henry Roberts, a 56-year-old homosexual who lived alone in a ramshackle house in Anglesey, stabbing him many times.
On October 7, 1995, Edward Carthy, 28, whom he had met in a gay bar, was stabbed to death in Clocaenog Forest, and his body left there. It was only when Moore was eventually arrested that his remains were discovered.
On November 30, 1995, Moore, killed traffic manager Keith Randles, 49, attacking him with a combat knife in his caravan on the A5 in Anglesey, and telling him he was murdering him for "fun" when he begged for mercy.
The final attack took place the week before Christmas in 1995, when Moore went to Pensarn Beach, Abergele, a well-known place for "cottaging", and stabbed Anthony Davies, 40, to death.
Mr Justice Teare said Moore had carried out 39 previous sex attacks on men in north Wales and Merseyside over a 20-year period, but had not killed before 1995.
He added that the murders involved "sadistic" or "sexual" conduct, and there was a degree of premeditation.
It was Moore's defence at trial that the murders were carried out by someone else, and he was covering up for them out of love.
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