The bizarre claim is in 50 hours of secret recordings he made of conversations in the year before he shot himself dead.

Moat, 37, told a social worker that police made up the threats so he would buy a gun. Then they would raid his home.

Ironically, the crazed body-builder also told of his dream of settling in Rothbury, the Northumberland village where he ended his life in a stand-off with cops on July 10.

Moat died after a shooting rampage in which he wounded his ex-girlfriend Sam Stobbart, 22, killed her new love Chris Brown, 29, and wounded PC Dave Rathband, 42.

A second post mortem on Moat, at the request of relatives who question the manner of his death, was continuing last night.