Serial Killer Documentary - Raoul Moat

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In July 2010, one man declared war on the Northumbria
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police force. After being released from prison, 37-year-old Raoul Moat
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shot his ex-girlfriend, killed her new partner and critically injured
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a police officer, shooting him at point-blank range.
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What rang the 999 system again and just, basically asked
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Northumbria police, do you believe me now?
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I've just downed one of your guys.
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The search for Raoul Moat had become the biggest news
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story in the country.
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People were following every move of this, and during that
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week of the manhunt, people had their televisions and their
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radios switched on around the clock.
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After a dramatic standoff with police aired live on British television,
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Moat turned the shotgun on himself and pulled the trigger.
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He wanted to be iconic, he wanted to be infamous,
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he wanted to go out with a bang and not
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a whimper.
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In just seven days, Raoul Moat had etched his name
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in history as one of the world's most evil killers.
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It was a new story that gripped the nation. In
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the early hours of Saturday, the 10th of July, 2010,
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37-year-old Raoul Moat shot himself after a six-hour standoff with
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Northumbria police.
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One of the.
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Biggest manhunts in UK history had come to a dramatic end.
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Moat had been on the run for seven days after
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critically injuring his former girlfriend and killing her new boyfriend.
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he'd gone on to declare war on the police and
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shot a uniformed officer. Mote was armed, full of rage,
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and extremely dangerous. Jim Napier was the senior investigating officer
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at Northumbria Police.
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It was clear that his intention was wider than just
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targeting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend. He was, in
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his words, now targeting police officers. Therefore, it was clearly
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the risk and the threat had gone up quite significantly.
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More armed officers had to be brought to the area
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to support the hunt to find and arrest Mote, because
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that's all we ever wanted to do was find and
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arrest him and bring him to justice.
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He's making a lot of threats. He's saying, this is it.
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You've taken my life. I'm going to take yours. It's
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this real vendetta against the police. He's basically saying, I'm
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doing this because I'm entitled to. You better take me seriously.
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Former Sky News anchor Jeremy Thompson was following the story
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as it unfolded.
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It was a July day, the start of summer, and
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not a lot of other stories around. So one story
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can suddenly take hold and dominate the news agenda.
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So.
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Without much else around, every news outfit in the country
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sent their best resources up to the Newcastle area to
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find out more about this story and to find out
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more about the man that the police believe was behind
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it all, Raoul Moat.
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And this killer story begins in 1973. Raoul Moat was
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born on the 17th of June in Gateshead in the
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northeast of England.
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He was raised largely by his grandmother. His mother had
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some mental health issues, but she lived in the local area,
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so he did have some contact with her. But it
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wasn't anything really out of the ordinary. A lot of
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families have to cope with that kind of thing.
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During the 1970s and 80s, the northeast of England was
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an area in economic decline. Its traditional heavy industries, such
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as shipbuilding and mining, were phased out, and many men
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lost their jobs.
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It wasn't a particularly economically prosperous area, so it was
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always going to be a challenge for Moat to find
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his way in the world as a man. Many teenagers
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go through a lot of changes, particularly at momentous points
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in their teenage years. When Moat was 16, he left school,
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and there were some changes in him around about that time.
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He became quite fixated on bodybuilding. And this is something
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that you often find with young working class lads in
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an area where the prospects of those traditional kind of
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tough men's jobs are few and far between. They looked
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at other ways to become men, to make themselves visibly masculine.
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And I think that was what Mo was doing.
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When you see the results, then in anything you get more,
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oh wow, this is working. So then he went more
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and more and then he started getting into steroids.
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It was clear that Moat had had some serious psychiatric
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problems growing up and he'd obviously decided to express himself
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as the big fella around town. He was 6'3, 17
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stone and liked this idea of being a large, well-built,
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muscle bodybuilder and he clearly used a lot of steroids
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and People who were close to him talked time and
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time again about just what a terrible temper he'd got.
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Moat was somebody who has what I would describe as
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poor behavioural control. So somebody who flies off the handle
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quite easily, somebody who's quite readily aggravated. And if you
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throw steroids into the mix, you get what people often
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refer to as roid rage, you know, a real inability
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to control your temper. and it increases the levels of
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testosterone in the body. So when somebody has a predilection
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towards aggression, and then you add that on top of it,
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you've got a really toxic mix.
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Mote had found work as a tree surgeon, and his
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physical appearance came in handy in his other role as
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a nightclub doorman. By 2005, the 32-year-old was caught by
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the police carrying a knuckle duster and a samurai sword.
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He'd fallen foul of the law on numerous occasions.
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He was known to the police for incidents of domestic abuse.
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He had a number of partners with which he had
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troubled relationships with, and the police were involved. He'd had
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arrests for, generally speaking, low-level violence.
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By 2010, 37-year-old Moat had fathered several children with different partners.
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His latest girlfriend, Samantha, was 15 years his junior.
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They'd been in an.
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On-and-off relationship for six years and had a daughter together.
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Well, the relationship between Samantha and Moat was an incredibly
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controlling one. It's one that I classify as coercively controlling.
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So Moat believed that Samantha was his possession. He was
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in control. He decided what happened, and she basically had
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to suck it up and get on with it. So
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it was his rules. Everything was focused around him.
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And he would control everything. He would control her movements,
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what she could buy or could not buy, what she did,
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who she talked to on the phone. So obviously Samantha
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would probably feel like completely controlled. She didn't have the
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right to do anything.
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You often find in relationships like this, women are kind
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of treading on eggshells, trying not to upset their abusive partner.
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But at the same time, it's very, very difficult for
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them to leave. looking from the outside, we say, well,
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why are you staying in this relationship? And often it's
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to keep themselves safe because they know that if they
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were to leave, they'd put themselves in quite a significant
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amount of danger.
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Samantha was desperate to leave Raoul Moat, and in the
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spring of 2010, a chance presented itself. Moat was convicted
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of assaulting a family member and sentenced to 18 weeks
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in Durham Prison, something that only aggravated him further.
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I am not a psychologist, but it was clearly me
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that Mote was a bit of a psychopath. He was
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always willing to blame others for everything that he did wrong.
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Everybody else was responsible. The social services were wrong.
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His legal team were wrong because they gave him bad
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advice and the police were picking on him.
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He's always laying the blame at somebody else's door because
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he doesn't think that he can do anything wrong, and
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that's a classic trait of somebody who's narcissistic.
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Raoul Moat was locked away, but he was a man
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holding a grudge and wanted revenge. For the past six years,
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he'd been in an on-and-off relationship with his 22-year-old girlfriend, Samantha.
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Moat being in prison had a significant impact on his
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relationship with Samantha. For a man like Moat, it's very,
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very important to be in control all of the time,
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especially in terms of your personal relationships. When he's removed
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from that domestic picture, he has to try really hard
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to keep control. So he's on the phone to Samantha
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quite a lot. He has one of his friends essentially
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stalking her and checking what she's up to.
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While Moat was in prison, Samantha did keep in contact
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with him. She had a daughter to him, and she
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kept in touch with him for the sake of that child.
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Samantha tried to convince Moat over the phone that it
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was over, but any talk of separation fell on deaf ears.
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She was probably scared of him. You'd be scared if
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you have a man that big saying, I am the man,
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and if you don't do what I tell you, you're
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going to get hurt or something. So she didn't know
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how to escape. So him being put in prison, to her,
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was like, something helped her out here. She finally was
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away from him. But the problem was Sam knew he
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was coming back.
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In his mind, the relationship wasn't over. in his mind
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they were going to reconcile, but she didn't have that
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plan at all. And the sort of straw that appears
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to have broken the camel's back was her announcing the
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fact that she was in a new relationship with Christopher Brown.
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Christopher, a 29-year-old karate instructor originally from Berkshire, moved to
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Newcastle in October 2009. He met Samantha in June 2010,
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whilst Moat was still in prison. Christopher's mother, Sally, was
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unaware of their relationship.
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As far as I know, Sam and Christopher only met
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each other a couple of weeks. They hadn't been going
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out with each other for very long at all. Christopher
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went up to Newcastle. He said he was going for
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the weekend.
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I said, OK, fine.
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And then I got a phone call sort of like
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a few days later and he said, well, Mum, I've
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got a chance to work here with karate. I'm going
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to stay. I said, didn't like it, but OK, fine.
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And that was it. He seemed to settle down. He
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loved what he was doing.
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Samantha had told Moat that her new boyfriend was a
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police officer.
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Christopher was never a police officer, never. He was a
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karate instructor. Never even thought of joining the police force, so...
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I think she was just trying to back Moat off.
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So I think that must be the only reason she
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told him that.
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She lied to Moat because she was afraid of Moat.
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And she knew that when he came out, he would
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have gone to her and to the new boyfriend. So
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she started saying that he was a police officer because
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that wouldn't intimidate people. She also said that he was
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a karate instructor, a black belt in karate.
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Periods of separation are a really high-risk time for people
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who've just come out of an abusive relationship. because the
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abuser has essentially lost control at this point in time.
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The victim has taken some power back and has some
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authority now over their own lives, and the abuser hates that,
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and they're going to resort to quite drastic measures to
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get that control back.
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So the only thing he had to look forward to
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is going back to Sam, to the person he loved,
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and then she took that away from him, right? And
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that would just, like, completely bring his anger to surface
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like crazy.
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There's no doubt at all that those conversations while Mote
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was in Durham Prison were the blue touchpapers that ignited
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the bonfire that became Raoul Mote.
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Mote's anger was uncontrollable. He decided he was going to
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kill Christopher Brown as soon as he got out of jail.
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He enlisted the help of a friend, Carl Ness.
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Mote started planning this while he was in prison.
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He recruited or he used Carl Ness to keep an
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eye on Samantha and do what we would call surveillance
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by watching her house, seeing who comes and goes, identifying vehicles,
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and trying to identify who the new boyfriend was.
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On Thursday, the 1st of July, 2010, 37-year-old Raoul Mote
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was released from prison. He didn't waste any time. It's
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alleged that Carl Ness had found a shotgun for him
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to use.
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The way in which Mook planned this was quite meticulous.
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He took steps to try and identify the karate instructor, i.e. Christopher,
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by making phone calls to health centres, to karate clubs,
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to the extent that he actually drove around the routes.
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That they took on the fatal night. They actually had a...
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a dry run, I feel like, on the Thursday night.
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On Friday, the 2nd of July, staff at Durham Prison
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warned Northumbria police that Moat might pose a risk to Samantha. But, unfortunately,
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the information wasn't acted upon. The same day, Moat was
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captured on CCTV in Newcastle, sporting a Mohican hairstyle. Later
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that night, Carl Ness drove Moat to nearby Gateshead, where
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Samantha and Christopher were at a house party.
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Moat was dropped off quite near the address that Samantha
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and Christopher were visiting, and he was able to walk
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in there and hide himself underneath the front window, next
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to the front door, where he was able to.
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Listen, because it was a July night, the window was open,
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it was warm.
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You could hear people talking and saying things, And he
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picked up on things that were being said about him
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or things that he perceived to be about him. And
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he started texting his friend, Ness, and expressing his anger
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and frustration at what he was hearing. This is going on.
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It's really annoying me.
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He's essentially venting. And this is something that you see
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narcissistic people do quite a lot. They want an audience
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for their complaints and their rants. They want validation. They
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want other people to agree with them and say, yeah,
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you're completely reasonable.
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Mote lay in wait outside the house.
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Around about 2.30 in the morning, Samantha and Christopher leave,
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and as they come out the front door, Mote stood up.
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He was clearly armed with a gun, and pretty much
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without warning, he immediately shot Christopher. Christopher started trying to
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run away, and as he tried to run across the
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grass area, he was shot again.
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Which was enough to make him fall.
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Moat then calmly walked over, reloaded his gun in front
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of witnesses, and then shot him a third time, causing
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his death.
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It was nothing more than a cold and calculated assassination.
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It was a public execution.
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Moat had used a sawn-off shotgun to shoot Christopher Brown
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at point-blank range.
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Certainly with a close-range discharge of a shotgun... Even with
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small pellets, you're going to get a large mass going
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into the body that's going to lacerate major organs, major
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blood vessels, very likely to be fatal.
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To create maximum damage, Moat had loaded his shotgun with
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lead fishing weights.
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They're bigger, they're heavier, they do more damage, they're going
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to make those discharges more lethal.
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Christopher had no chance of survival, but amidst the horror
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unfolding in front of her very eyes, Samantha had managed
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to run back into the house to seek refuge.
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After he'd shot Chris, he then turned round and walked
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towards the house that they'd been in. He could clearly
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see that Samantha was in the sitting room there, and
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he fired a shot at Samantha, which went through the
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window and struck her in the abdomen, causing her some
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critical injuries.
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So.
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He had fatally wounded one victim. He had critically injured
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a second victim, and then he calmly walked away from
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the scene.
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Mote had no idea whether he'd killed Samantha or not.
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Well, most people, when they commit a murder, they are
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absolutely horrified at what they've done. They can't quite believe
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that the magnitude of it. They often go into a
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state of shock and literally don't know what they're doing afterwards.
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But Moat was very calm. He was very calculated. He
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phoned his friend. He said, I'm full of beans. And
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the reason for that was because he thought he'd restored
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the natural order of things. He felt entitled to carry
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out those shootings.
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Moat had casually left the scene armed with his shotgun.
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For him, it seemed to have been a bit like
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mission accomplished, and he seemed quite calm and pleased with himself.
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But he would not remain calm for long. Raoul Moat
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had killed Christopher Brown and critically injured Samantha in front
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of other party guests. The police were searching for the 37-year-old,
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but he was one step ahead. Moat had left a
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letter with a friend to deliver to detectives later in
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the day. It warned the police would pay for what
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they've done.
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He had a 49-page letter saying, that he'd written outlining
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his complaints about various things. And you often see this
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with people who are narcissistic. When they have a complaint,
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when they're angry about something, it's not enough for them
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to just make a concise statement and sum it up neatly.
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They will go on and on and on. And in
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these statements and these letters, they'll be saying, you know,
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this is all about victimizing me. I'm the victim here.
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Everybody's out to get me. And it goes on, it's embellished,
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it's exaggerated. He's a classic narcissist.
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The same day, 300 miles away in Berkshire, uniformed officers
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paid a visit to Sally Brown, the mother of murdered
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29-year-old karate instructor Christopher.
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It was our local police that came round to me.
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They just said that there'd been an incident and that
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Christopher was dead but then I had the family liaison
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officer from Newcastle on the phone and they didn't tell
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me too much over the phone I think it was
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a case of I wasn't listening anyway all I heard
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was your son's dead that was it it's you seem
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to sort of cut everything else off and when you're
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told something like this you I think your body and
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your brain just goes into um How can I describe it?
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You're hearing people. They're talking to you. And at the time,
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I was at home. I was listening to these people
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on the phone. And I was talking to the police
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officers at the house with me. But I could also
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hear my daughter screaming in the background. She's absolutely gone hysterical.
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He was a lad.
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He was a typical little boy. He was just very happy,
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laughing all the time. And he would help anybody if
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he could. He wouldn't let anyone get hurt. He was
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just a nice lad. But then I'm biased, I suppose.
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Because he's my boy. When you lose one of your children,
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you just can't describe it. Can't describe it.
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It's horrendous.
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While the Brown family mourned, Raoul Moat was still on
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the run. His hatred towards the police was rising. Samantha
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had told Moat that Christopher Brown worked for them.
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I think he was on the understanding Christopher was a
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police officer because Sam had gone in and told him
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that he was a police officer. Christopher has never been
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in the police force. He's a karate instructor, and whether
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she thought telling him that he was.
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would back him off a bit, I don't know.
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Moat's hostility towards the police was turning into a vendetta,
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and he was keen for them to know.
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Who they were dealing with.
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In the early hours of Sunday 4th July, after being
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on the run for 24 hours, Moat dialed 999.
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This is the gunman from Berkeley last night. My name
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is Raoul Moat. What I'm talking about is to tell
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you exactly why I've done what I've done, right? Now,
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my girlfriend has been having an affair behind my back
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with one of your officers, this gentleman that I shot
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last night, the karate instructor, right? Now, you bastards have
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been on to me, right, for years. He's harassed us,
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harassed us. He has just warned us alone. You wanted
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me to do myself in, and I was going to
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do it. until I found out about him properly and
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what was going on. And as soon as I found
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out he was the officer, I thought, nah, you've had
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too much from me. You've had too much from me.
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You'll get your chance to kill us, right? You'll get
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your chance to kill us. We don't want to do that.
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We don't want to do that. You don't want me
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to kill myself, but I'm going to give you a
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chance because I am going to put officers down.
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Raoul Moat spent a number of minutes ranting on the phone,
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effectively declaring war on Northumbria Police and saying, I'm coming
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to get you. Yous have ruined my life. I'm coming
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to get you.
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Essentially, he wants an audience. He wants to vent. And
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this call really is a poor me monologue. He's saying
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to the operator, this is all your fault, you being
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the police. You've done this to me. It's all about him.
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It's saying, these are the reasons why I've done what
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I've done, because I've been driven to it by other people.
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I'm not responsible.
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After making the 999 call, Moat had stepped up his
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vendetta against the police. A friend, Karam Awan, was driving
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him around in a black Lexus. Moat was actively hunting
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for police officers.
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Moat's two closest associates in the criminal underworld were Ness
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and Awan. They assisted him the moment that he left
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Durham Prison.
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Shortly after making his threatening call to police, Moat spotted
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a sitting police car at a roundabout in the Denton area.
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Inside was 42-year-old PC David Rathbound.
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Moat's approached the car from behind, tapped on the passenger window,
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and David turned, and as soon as he turned, Moat
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shot once through the window, which hit David right in
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the middle of the face. He fell into the foot
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compartment of his.
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Car, Despite his serious condition, PC Rathban tried to activate
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the emergency button in his vehicle. Moat then shot him
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for a second time and calmly walked away.
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Moat was on the angry rampage. If he had passed
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another police officer on a motorcycle, he probably would have
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stopped and shot him as well. If there was a
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police officer in the shop, he probably would have shot
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him as well. It's because he only found one. If
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he had found more, he would have shot more.
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When Raumo shot PC David Rathband, it signified a real
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escalation in his offending. This wasn't just about Raumo and
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people who had annoyed him.
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It was a callous attack.
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David Rathband had sustained life-threatening injuries. He had survived, but
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he would never see again.
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As a forensic pathologist, if you're told somebody has been
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shot at very close range in the face with a shotgun,
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you're expecting to perform an autopsy that person is almost
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certainly dead. I think it's almost miraculous that David Rathbun
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survived what happened to him. You can see from the
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x-rays the number of little pellets in him. Any one
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of those could easily have gone and struck something utterly
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vital and killed him.
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He's being shot in the face.
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Mote made yet another 999 call. He was determined to
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make sure the police knew it was him who'd shot
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the 42-year-old father of two.
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Within maybe an hour of that incident, Mote basically asked
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Northumbria police, do you believe me now? I've just downed
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one of you guys. And just remind colleagues in Northumbria
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that I'm coming to get you. And that was a big,
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big game changer in this manhunt.
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What appeared at first to be a domestic dispute with
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a fatal outcome was quickly evolving into a much bigger
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story with nationwide interest. Jeremy Thompson was the anchor for
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Sky News.
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Within 24 hours, policeman David Rathband had been shot in
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the face, a rare occurrence for a policeman to be
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shot in Britain. That really ramped up the story. The
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media poured into the Northeast very quickly. It became an
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unprecedented manhunt over that long, hot July week up in
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the north-east of England. And the media interest was intense.
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People had their televisions and their radios switched on round
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the clock.
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It was a difficult time for the Brown family.
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I couldn't turn the news on because every time something
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came up about it, it was always round most photos.
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that they were showing, because he was the one that
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was on the run and what have you. But even afterwards,
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I said to the police once that it seems as
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though Christopher was a number put under the carpet.
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The following day, Monday 5th July, it emerged that Moat
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had posted on his Facebook page,'' I' ve lost everything. Watch
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and see what happens.'' With his behavior becoming increasingly erratic,
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the authorities were warning the public not to approach him.
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This wasn't just about Raumo and his personal issues with
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his relationships. This represented a real risk to the public,
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so the scale of this case now was incredibly significant.
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It was an operation that was supported by police forces
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from across the country, colleagues from London, Liverpool, Manchester, There
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was equipment sent from Northern Ireland.
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There was a huge response to this because.
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Day-to-day policing had to continue in the Northumbria police area.
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They had to be there in numbers and they had
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to have the right equipment.
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They had to be armed.
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It was on an epic scale. They had not only
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got 160 armed officers, but also they'd got special armoured vehicles.
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They'd got specially trained tracker dogs. They'd got helicopters up
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and they'd even got an RAF jet up there running
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reconnaissance missions over that whole area. It was an extraordinary
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reaction to what they knew at the time to be
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perhaps no more than one man with a gun on
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the loose.
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After shooting and blinding PC David Rathband at point-blank range
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on Sunday, July 4th, Moat had gone off the radar.
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Two shooting incidents in 24 hours and then gone.
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No more phone calls, no more messages. He just vanished
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into thin air.
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We did not know where he was.
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He had come down, caused all that damage and then disappeared.
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Police appealed to the gunman to turn himself in, but
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Moat remained on the loose, armed, and extremely dangerous. On
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the 6th of July, the black Lexus Mote had used
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when he shot PC Rathband was found abandoned in the
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small town of Rothbury, 30 miles north of Newcastle. Police
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set up a two-mile exclusion zone and urged residents to
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stay indoors.
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The hunt suddenly started to focus on a very pretty
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market town called Rothbury, right on the edge of the
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Northumberland National Park at beautiful little town on the Coquit
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River surrounded by glorious but pretty remote countryside that presumably
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Mote knew pretty well and felt that he could steer
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clear of the police around there and whatever game he
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had in mind, whatever he was doing to taunt the
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police at the time or to evade the police, he
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felt it was his best bet.
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There was still no sign of Moat, but police had
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found an abandoned campsite in Rothbury and a dictaphone with
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recordings of Moat complaining how unhappy he was with the
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media reports about his private life. He also made threats
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00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:03.980
to the general public unless the stories stopped.
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00:31:04.900 --> 00:31:08.140
So he's listening to what's going on in the media.
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He's following the coverage. So all of this is going
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to be fueling his aggravation and his sense of annoyance, essentially.
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So this is somebody who's becoming incredibly dangerous the more
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bruised their ego becomes.
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On Wednesday, the 7th of July, 2010, police found yet
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another letter in a tent. It was addressed to his ex-girlfriend, Samantha.
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Moat was somewhere nearby, but detectives still didn't know exactly where.
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They offered a £ 10, 000 reward for any information that could
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lead to the 37-year-old's capture.
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I would ask people to keep contacting either Northumbria Police
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00:31:49.150 --> 00:31:52.430
or Crimestoppers with any information.
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They believe may be relevant.
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There is a £ 10, 000 reward for information which leads to
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the detention of Mr Mote.
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The media interest in the case was intensifying with rolling
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24-hour news reports. By Thursday, the 8th of July, Moat
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had now been on the run for five days, but
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the police had finally.
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Made a breakthrough.
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One of the most curious twists in this whole story,
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that at one stage, a few days into the manhunt,
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police were telling us they believe that Moat was holding
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two hostages. But then, strangely, this story twisted around. The
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00:32:36.349 --> 00:32:39.329
next thing we hear... is that the police have arrested
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two men, Ness and a one, who they now tell
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us they believe were friends and aiders and abettors of
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the runaway man, Raoul Moat. Within 24 hours, they'd gone
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from two hostages to two men arrested, believed to have
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some involvement in Moat's escape and perhaps even the shootings itself.
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00:33:04.869 --> 00:33:10.519
The arrest of Moat's accomplices, 26-year-old Carl Ness and 23-year-old
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Karam Awan, was a mere sideshow to the manhunt around Rothbury.
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By now, the media had been issued with a news blackout.
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Not a complete blackout, but a blackout on some of
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the personal details that clearly they felt was important. stirring
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00:33:31.500 --> 00:33:35.940
up Moat even more, making him even more potentially dangerous.
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The hunt for Raoul Moat had elevated the killer to
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a bizarre cult status.
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So for some people, Raoul Moat is an anti-hero. He
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00:33:46.150 --> 00:33:50.069
represents somebody who stands up to authority, somebody who doesn't
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00:33:50.130 --> 00:33:52.809
follow the rules. And for some people, that's something to
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00:33:52.849 --> 00:33:54.150
be admired, unfortunately.
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Mote's time was running out. On Friday the 9th of July,
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a local resident spotted a man walking next to the
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river in Rothbury.
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She approached the police patrol, who went down to check
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it out.
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As soon as Mote saw the police vehicle, he sunk
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to his knees, put the gun to his head, and
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that's when the standoff started.
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Some of those images will live with me forever. I
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can remember them vividly, live. constantly going back to seeing
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what was happening, Moat on his knees. That riverbank is
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the abiding image of Raoul Moat in almost everybody's mind.
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On the evening of Friday the 9th of July, the
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nation was glued to their television sets as the drama unfolded.
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But this wasn't a film.
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It was real life. the police were dealing with a
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man who was erratic, armed, and extremely dangerous.
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We had police negotiators who were there on the scene,
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face to face, who spent the next six hours or
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so speaking to him and trying to persuade him that
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the right thing to do was put the gun down
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and surrender himself to custody.
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The police were determined to make sure that Moat came
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out of the standoff alive. The presence of the media
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added extra pressure on their performance.
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You're there focused on doing your job, but you're doing
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00:35:27.179 --> 00:35:32.420
your job in the knowledge that there's lots of people
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watching you, scrutinizing you, and some of them judging you.
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But Moat wasn't planning on giving himself up so easily,
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and the case continued to attract media attention.
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An extraordinary part of this story was the involvement of celebrities.
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Almost as the manhunt came to its dramatic and fatal climax,
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we got the almost bizarre scene of Gazza, Paul Gascoigne,
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the famous England footballer, turning up in his dressing gown,
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claiming to know Raoul Mote and offering Mote... chicken and
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lager if he gave himself up. Didn't come to anything.
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The police just asked Gazza to politely leave the town
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and had nothing more to do with it.
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As the night of Friday, the 9th of July, turned
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into the early hours of Saturday, the situation remained tense.
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Negotiations with Moat weren't working well. and he remained where
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he was, with a gun pointed at his own head.
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It was an incredibly long and tense night. Darkness fell.
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We really could see very little of what was going on.
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We could just see the outlines of the police cordon,
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00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:06.650
and the night dragged on after midnight into the small hours,
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00:37:06.809 --> 00:37:09.530
and it was around one o'clock in the morning when
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there was a Dramatic series of events, hard to make out.
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It was confused, it was dark, it was very difficult
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to know exactly what the sequence of events were.
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In one last attempt to capture Moat, the police decided
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to use a taser on the 37-year-old. They were determined
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to take him alive.
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On this occasion, the tasers that were used were long tasers,
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like shotgun-style tasers, which hadn't yet been approved for use
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by the police. When you're in a mindset and a
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00:37:44.769 --> 00:37:49.420
determination to arrest somebody, to call them to account for
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the crimes that they've committed in the safest possible way,
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then it was right and proper that it was given
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a try.
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It didn't work.
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At approximately 1.15 a.m. on Sunday the 10th of July,
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the sound of a shotgun blast... followed by shouting, signaled
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that Raoul Moat had taken his own life.
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00:38:15.940 --> 00:38:18.019
I don't think the police had any chance of talking
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Raoul Moat down. He wanted to be iconic, he wanted
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to be infamous, he wanted to go out with a
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bang and not a whimper.
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A seven-day manhunt and a six-hour standoff had come to
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a dramatic conclusion.
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00:38:33.239 --> 00:38:37.039
He clearly had decided... that he didn't want to be
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taken captive. He didn't want another sentence in jail again.
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This was it. This was his final stand. This was
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the moment he decided to pack up, give up, not
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be taken again.
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With Mote dead, the police focused their attention on those
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who'd aided him during the seven days. In March 2011,
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at Newcastle Crown Court, Moat's two accomplices, 26-year-old Carl Ness
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00:39:09.789 --> 00:39:14.369
and 23-year-old Karam Awan, were convicted of conspiracy to murder,
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attempted murder and armed robbery. Awan was sentenced to a
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minimum of 20 years, while Ness was further convicted of
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murder and a firearms offense and sentenced to a minimum
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40 years. Awan's defense solicitor told reporters, this trial is
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Hamlet without the prince.
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They were Moat's assistants.
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They were, in every sense, the sorcerer's apprentice.
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They were there to facilitate Moat's plan, which was to
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00:39:46.820 --> 00:39:50.800
become famous. He wanted his 15 minutes of celebrity, and boy,
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00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:51.559
he was going to get them.
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00:39:53.219 --> 00:39:58.719
In a further tragic turn, in February 2012, PC David
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Rathband took his own life. Unable to cope with his
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blindness since the shooting, he hanged himself. His colleagues at
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Northumbria Police believe that 44-year-old David had become Moat's second victim.
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David's involvement in this case, you know, he was a
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00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:26.179
police officer doing his job in uniform to the best
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00:40:26.199 --> 00:40:30.489
of his ability and without warning he suffered horrific injuries
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that changed his life and in my view ultimately led
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00:40:35.550 --> 00:40:39.789
to his death and I will always hold Raoul Moore
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00:40:39.829 --> 00:40:41.610
responsible for killing David Rathbun.
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These people do these things and they don't think about
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the consequences of the people that they leave behind.
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00:40:47.780 --> 00:40:51.610
They said it would get easier but No. It's harder.
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Everybody talks about the Raoul Moat case. This started as
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the Christopher Brown murder inquiry. My team investigated it. It
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continued to be the Christopher Brown murder inquiry. The only
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00:41:06.659 --> 00:41:10.139
thing he did wrong was he fell for a girl
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who Moat believed was his possession. And he would use
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any force to deal with that, and he did. And
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we should never forget that Christopher was the first victim here.
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Christopher was a very happy-go-lucky, fun-loving person.
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He was a good son, he was a good friend
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to his friends, a good brother to his sister.
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He's never out of our thoughts. I just miss him
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so much.
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00:41:50.829 --> 00:41:53.849
Raoul Moat was full of rage when he left Durham
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Prison on July 1, 2010. But no-one could have imagined
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00:41:59.130 --> 00:42:01.710
the lengths he would go to in order to get
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00:42:01.849 --> 00:42:06.380
back at his girlfriend. His murderous rampage left an innocent
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man dead, executed in cold blood, his ex-girlfriend wounded and
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scarred for life, and a police officer blind and suicidal.
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All this before turning the gun on himself. His selfish
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lust for revenge and notoriety turned him into the most
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infamous man in Britain and one of the world's most
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evil killers.