"They are driving me out, I can't bear to stay here any longer. I'm petrified," Mrs Moore said yesterday.
She has secured the house in Marchbank Place, which will cost her $42 more a week than she has been paying at Panama but firstly has to find the money to pay a $560 bond and two weeks rent in advance, a total of $840.
Thompson's presence at the village, after the convicted murderer was paroled in July having served 13 years of a life sentence, became known to Mrs Moore after a bizarre face-to-face encounter with Thompson just outside Mrs Moore's front door.
That was about three weeks ago when Mrs Moore's daughter Sonia and her best friend - the daughter of the murdered Rongotea woman - visited.
The two younger women were in a car parking space a few feet from the door when Thompson came by and was recognised by the dead woman's daughter who spoke by phone to the Times-Age yesterday.
She recounted the events of the moment, saying she had been stunned to see the man who killed her mother appear before her.
"My heart jumped, I just froze," she said.
Realising something was amiss, Sonia had bundled her friend back into the car and the two had driven off.
The woman said the chance encounter with Thompson, who she had no idea was living there, followed on from years of attending parole hearings contesting moves to have him released back into society.
"That man shot and killed my mum and she was an awesome mum, the best in the world," she said.
Thompson was housed at Panama monitored by an electronic bracelet because he is banned from entering Manawatu and Rangitikei.
Other parole conditions include being forbidden from drinking alcohol and using guns.
When news broke that Thompson was living at Panama in a flat only a few metres from Mrs Moore who had connections to one of his victims, the council's finance manager, David Paris, set in train plans to move the convicted killer out, through Corrections.
That was two weeks back but Thompson remains a tenant at Panama, apparently despite meetings having been held at the village to discuss what is to happen.
Mrs Moore, who has a disability and uses a mobility scooter, said she feels dreadfully let down by the council and that to be fair they should pay for her to be rehoused and moved.
It was unfair to expect her to remain in the village while Thompson was there and his presence meant she was unable to be visited by Sonia's friend who had a close bond with her, calling her Nana.
"I have told her she is not to visit me here again, it is far too distressing for her. I could hear her screaming last time when she came face-to-face with him."
Mrs Moore said leaving Panama will be tinged with sadness because although she has only lived there since early February, she feels she has fitted in well: "I cook bacon and egg pies and make biscuits for four or five other tenants. It's all wrong that I have to go, and he stays," she said.
