<p><br /> Gunman Raoul Moat was "no psycho" and may have killed himself in an "involuntary reaction" to being Tasered by police, his brother has said.<br /> </p><p><br /> Angus Moat is convinced he could have prevented his younger brother's death but said police would not let him intervene during the tense six-hour stand-off which ended with a fatal gunshot at 1.15am on Saturday.<br /> </p><p><br /> The tax officer, 39, said his brother was a sensitive person who may have been suffering a breakdown when he shot his former girlfriend, killed her new boyfriend and then turned his gun on a police officer.<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Moat, of Newcastle, had not seen his brother for several years but immediately contacted police and offered to talk to him, only to be told it could make the situation "more volatile".<br /> </p><p><br /> Mr Moat questioned why two electronic stun guns were used in the effort to bring Moat down and asked why no marks from the Tasers were mentioned in the post-mortem examination report, which gave his cause of death as a gunshot wound to the head.<br /> </p><p><br /> He suggested the shock from the stun gun may have caused Moat to pull the trigger on the shotgun that he had been holding to his head throughout the stand-off.<br /> </p><p><br /> The manhunt was sparked on July 3 after Moat's former girlfriend Sam Stobbart, 22, was shot and her 29-year-old boyfriend Chris Brown killed in Gateshead.<br /> </p>
