Gunman Raoul Moat may have launched a bloody spree after overdosing on vowels, writes Nigel Eels.
Experts now believe the key to why he could have flipped may lie in his name.
Last night it emerged that Moat’s real name is Rolly Munt. However it is thought to have become bloated by years of systematic abuse – to the extent that five of its eight letters are now vowels.
Dr Bernard Timms, of St Botolph’s Hospital, told The New Grind: “Most people have no more than 15 or 20 per cent of naturally-occurring vowels in their names.
“Raoul Moat, by contrast, consists of more than 60 per cent vowels – which is always going to be on the verge of being dangerously unstable. Had this tragedy not happened, the likelihood is he would have lost his consonants entirely within two or three years.”
It’s thought Moat began abusing vowels shortly after he became a doorman at a club in Newcastle and quickly became a heavy user.
“The main supply tends to come from Eastern Europe – Poland, Russia etc – where vowels are cheaply produced but where the demand is not great,” explained Dr Timms.
“What you tend to get in countries like that is people overdosing on consonants – which can be equally as dangerous.”
Ironically as Moat began his spree, Polish police launched a manhunt for Warsaw doorman Kryz Pryzblwsky, who is thought to have killed 15 members of his own family in a row over soup rations.
