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Tributes to Raoul Moat slammed

Facebook has rejected calls from British Prime Minister David Cameron to shut down a page dedicated to the dead gunman Raoul Moat.

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Facebook has rejected calls from British Prime Minister David Cameron to shut down a page dedicated to the dead gunman Raoul Moat.

Addressing parliament, Cameron said:

"There should be sympathy for his victims and the havoc he wreaked in that community.

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"There should be no sympathy for him."

As well as the tributes on Facebook, flowers have been left outside Moat's house in Fenham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Britain's police chief, Sir Paul Stephenson, described the tributes as "extraordinarily disappointing".


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