<p><br /> The police officer injured by Raoul Moat has described how the gunman stared coldly into his eyes moments before he shot him in the face.<br /> </p><p><br /> Recalling the moment he was shot through the window of his marked car at a roundabout in East Denton, Newcastle, in the early hours of July 4, PC David Rathband, 42, said: "I looked into his eyes and I saw nothing - no emotion."<br /> </p><p><br /> "Then I felt the pain full-on in my face. I knew my right eye socket had just exploded and my eye had gone," he told The Sun.<br /> </p><p><br /> Bleeding heavily, the officer "played dead", fearing that Moat was still close by: "I was trying to not make a noise even though there was blood everywhere in my nose and throat." But he managed to whisper into his radio for help as he lay slumped in the footwell.<br /> </p><p><br /> PC Rathband, who has lost the sight in both eyes, said he asked a medic to deliver a final message to his wife and two children.<br /> </p><p><br /> "I said to the guy in the ambulance, 'Will you please tell my wife and children that I love them - I'm going to die'."<br /> </p><p><br /> The police officer spoke of his ordeal after an inquest into 37-year-old Moat's death heard that armed police fired two Tasers at the steroid-addicted former nightclub doorman to stop him taking his own life.<br /> </p><p><br /> The stun guns were not approved by the Home Office, the inquest at Newcastle Civic Centre was also told. It was unclear if officers fired before or after the father-of-three shot himself in the head, a police investigator said.<br /> </p><p><br /> Moat went on the run after killing his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart's new lover Chris Brown, 29, and seriously injuring her.<br /> </p>
