I am invited to many things in my role as MD of Quest PR – but this week I received a definite one-off. I was contacted by one of my former employers ITV Wales where I was an on-screen reporter, to appear on a series called ‘I was there’ to be aired this November.

The series features interviews with former reporters who reflect on events as they unfolded on major stories they covered. My claim to fame includes a gruesome case of serial killer Peter Moore who murdered and mutilated four men in 1995.

My first encounter with Moore, who was apparently fixated on Jason Voorhies from the Friday 13th movies, took place in the most innocuous surroundings of a local cinema which he had opened along the North Wales coast in a bid to bring family entertainment to the fore with popular favourites such as Mary Poppins and the Tom and Jerry cartoons. My cameraman and I went to interview him for a feature for the flagship evening news programme, feeling instinctively that something was not quite right.

Just months later I was covering Moore’s gruesome murders – in particular victim number 3, Keith Randles, a 49 year old traffic safety manager who was stabbed as he slept in his caravan at roadworks on the A5 in Anglesley in November 1995.

Just writing about this now brings back a flood of memories about the brutality of the scene and the suffering of his victims and their families. At his trial it was claimed that Moore attached more than 50 other men in what the judge described as “20 years of terror”. Justice was served and Moore was jailed for life in 1996. He received four life sentences and the Home Secretary recommended he should never be released.

Just thinking about the horror of these murders makes me question if my forthcoming ITV Wales invitation is one I should have passed down?

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