Peter Moore (serial killer)

Peter Moore
Peter Moore mugshot
Background information
Birth name	Peter Howard Moore
Also known as	The Man In Black
Born	1940
Killings
Number of victims	4
Span of killings	September 1995–December 1995
Country	Wales

Peter Moore (born 1940) is a Welsh serial killer who owned and managed a number of cinemas in North Wales. He murdered four men in 1995. Due to his attire he was dubbed the "man in black".

Crimes

Between September and December 1995, he stabbed to death and mutilated four men "for fun". He was sentenced to life imprisonment in November 1996.

Victims

• Henry Roberts, a 56-year-old gay man who lived in Anglesey; stabbed to death in September 1995
• Edward Carthy, a 28-year-old man whom Moore met in a gay bar; stabbed to death in Clocaenog Forest in October 1995
• Keith Randles, a 49-year-old traffic manager; stabbed to death in November 1995 on the A5 road in Anglesey
• Anthony Davies, 40; stabbed to death in Pensarn Beach, Abergele in December 1995

Trial

During his trial, Moore told the jury the crimes were committed by a homosexual lover he nicknamed "Jason" after the killer in the Friday the 13th horror films. The jury found him guilty on all counts.

Imprisonment

During his time in Wakefield Prison Moore befriended Harold Shipman, the serial killer and former GP who hanged himself in January 2004. In June 2008, Moore was told by the High Court that he would spend the rest of his life in prison.On 3 March 2011 Moore challenged the ruling in the European Court of Human Rights, with a view to having his sentence quashed and such sentences outlawed throughout Europe. However, on 17 January 2012 it was announced that his appeal had failed.

On 13 October 2011 it was falsely reported that Moore had died at Broadmoor hospital on 30 July.