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Britain's Most Evil Killers S02E04 Raoul Moat
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00:00In July 2010, one man declared war on the Northumbria police force.
00:08You just wanted me to kill yourself, but I'm going to give you a chance,
00:11because I am hunting for officers now.
00:13After being released from prison, 37-year-old Raoul Mote shot his ex-girlfriend,
00:20killed her new partner, and critically injured a police officer,
00:25shooting him at point-blank range.
00:28Mote rang the 999 system again and just basically asked the Northumbria police,
00:34do you believe me now? I've just downed one of you guys.
00:37The search for Raoul Mote had become the biggest news story in the country.
00:42People were following every move of this, and during that week of the manhunt,
00:47people had their televisions and their radios switched on around the clock.
00:51After a dramatic standoff with police aired live on British television,
00:57Mote turned the shotgun on himself and pulled the trigger.
01:01He wanted to be iconic, he wanted to be infamous,
01:04he wanted to go out with a bang and not a whimper.
01:06In just seven days, Raoul Mote had etched his name in history
01:12as one of Britain's most evil killers.
01:24It was a news story that gripped the nation.
01:40In the early hours of Saturday the 10th of July 2010, 37-year-old Raoul Mote shot himself
01:48after a six-hour standoff with Northumbria police.
01:52One of the biggest manhunts in UK history had come to a dramatic end.
01:58Mote had been on the run for seven days after critically injuring his former girlfriend
02:04and killing her new boyfriend.
02:06He'd gone on to declare war on the police and shot a uniformed officer.
02:11Mote was armed, full of rage, and extremely dangerous.
02:16Jim Napier was the senior investigating officer at Northumbria Police.
02:24It was clear that his intention was wider than just targeting his ex-girlfriend
02:31and her new boyfriend.
02:32He was, in his words, now targeting police officers.
02:36Therefore, he was clearly the risk and the threat had gone up quite significantly.
02:43More armed officers had to be brought to the area to support the hunt to find and arrest Mote,
02:53because that's all we ever wanted to do was find and arrest him and bring him to justice.
02:58He's making a lot of threats. He's saying, this is it, you've taken my life,
03:02I'm going to take yours. It's this real vendetta against the police.
03:05He's basically saying, I'm doing this because I'm entitled to.
03:09You better take me seriously.
03:12Former Sky News anchor Jeremy Thompson was following the story as it unfolded.
03:19It was a July day, the start of summer, and not a lot of other stories around.
03:25So one story can suddenly take hold and dominate the news agenda.
03:31So without much else around, every news outfit in the country sent their best resources
03:38up to the Newcastle area to find out more about this story and to find out more about the man
03:43that the police believe was behind it all, Raoul Mote.
03:48And this killer story begins over 40 years ago.
03:52Raoul Mote was born on the 17th of June 1973 in Gateshead in the northeast of England.
04:00DR. He was raised largely by his grandmother.
04:03His mother had some mental health issues, but she lived in the local area,
04:08so he did have some contact with her.
04:10But it wasn't anything really out of the ordinary.
04:13A lot of families have to cope with that kind of thing.
04:16During the 1970s and 80s, the northeast of England was an area in economic decline.
04:25Its traditional heavy industries, such as shipbuilding and mining,
04:29were phased out, and many men lost their jobs.
04:32DR. It wasn't a particularly economically prosperous area,
04:37so it was always going to be a challenge for Mote to find his way in the world as a man.
04:43Many teenagers go through a lot of changes,
04:45particularly at momentous points in their teenage years.
04:49When Mote was 16, he left school,
04:51and there were some changes in him around about that time,
04:54so he became quite fixated on bodybuilding.
04:58And this is something that you often find with young working-class lads
05:02in an area where the prospects of those traditional kind of tough men's jobs
05:07are few and far between.
05:08They looked at other ways to become men to make themselves visibly masculine,
05:13and I think that was what Mote was doing.
05:15DR. When you see the results, then in anything you get more,
05:21oh wow, this is working.
05:23So then he went in more and more, and then he started getting into steroids.
05:26DR. It was clear that Mote had had some serious psychiatric problems growing up,
05:31and he'd obviously decided to express himself as the big fella around town.
05:37He was 6'3", 17 stone, and liked this idea of being a large, well-built muscle bodybuilder,
05:44and he clearly used a lot of steroids.
05:47And people who were close to him talk time and time again about
05:52just what a terrible temporary got.
05:54Mote was somebody who has what I would describe as poor behavioural control,
05:59so somebody who flies off the handle quite easily, somebody who's quite readily aggravated.
06:04And if you throw steroids into the mix, you get what people often refer to as roid rage,
06:10you know, a real inability to control your temper,
06:14and it increases the levels of testosterone in the body.
06:17So when somebody has a predilection towards aggression,
06:20and then you add that on top of it, you've got a really toxic mix.
06:23Mote had found work as a tree surgeon,
06:26and his physical appearance came in handy in his other role as a nightclub doorman.
06:32By 2005, the 32-year-old was caught by the police carrying a knuckle duster
06:39and a samurai sword.
06:42He'd fallen foul of the law on numerous occasions.
06:46He was known to the police for incidents of domestic abuse.
06:51He had a number of partners with which he had trouble relationships with,
06:55and the police were involved.
06:56He had arrests for, generally speaking, low-level violence.
07:01By 2010, 37-year-old Mote had fathered several children
07:07with different partners.
07:09His latest girlfriend, Samantha, was 15 years his junior.
07:14They'd been in an on-and-off relationship for six years
07:17and had a daughter together.
07:19Well, the relationship between Samantha and Mote was an incredibly controlling one.
07:25It's one that I classify as coercively controlling.
07:28So Mote believed that Samantha was his possession.
07:31He was in control.
07:32He decided what happened, and she basically had to suck it up and get on with it.
07:37So it was his rules.
07:39Um, everything was-was focused around him.
07:42And he would control everything.
07:44He would control her movements, um, what she could buy, could not buy,
07:48what she did, you know, who she talked to on the phone.
07:51So obviously, Samantha would probably feel, like, completely controlled.
07:56She didn't have the right to do anything.
07:58You often find in relationships like this,
08:00women are kind of treading on eggshells, trying not to upset their abusive partner.
08:05But at the same time, it's very, very difficult for them to leave.
08:08Often, looking from the outside, we say,
08:10well, why are you staying in this relationship?
08:13And often, it's to keep themselves safe,
08:15because they know that if they were to leave,
08:17they'd put themselves in quite a significant amount of danger.
08:19Samantha was desperate to leave Raoul Mote,
08:23and in March 2010, a chance presented itself.
08:28Mote was convicted of assaulting a family member
08:31and sentenced to 16 weeks in Durham prison,
08:35something that only aggravated him further.
08:38I am not a psychologist,
08:42but it was clear to me that Mote was a bit of a psychopath.
08:46He was always willing to blame others
08:52for everything that he did wrong.
08:54Everybody else was responsible.
08:55The social services were wrong, his legal team were wrong,
08:59because they gave him bad advice, and the police were picking on him.
09:02He's always laying the blame at somebody else's door,
09:05because he doesn't think that he can do anything wrong,
09:08and that's a classic trait of somebody who's narcissistic.
09:11In March 2010, Raoul Mote was safely locked away,
09:16but he was a man holding a grudge and wanted revenge.
09:22His release date was set for the 1st of July, 2010.
09:27By July the 10th, Samantha would be shot,
09:31one police officer would be fighting for his life,
09:34and two people would be dead.
09:37In 2010, in Durham in the north of England,
09:5237-year-old Raoul Mote was serving a 16-week prison sentence for assault.
09:59For the past six years, he had been in an on-and-off relationship
10:03with his 22-year-old girlfriend, Samantha.
10:08Mote being in prison had a significant impact
10:11on his relationship with Samantha.
10:13For a man like Mote, it's very, very important to be in control
10:16all of the time, especially in terms of your personal relationships.
10:21When he's removed from that domestic picture,
10:23he has to try really hard to keep control,
10:26so he's on the phone to Samantha quite a lot.
10:29He has one of his friends essentially stalking her
10:32and checking what she's up to.
10:35While Mote was in prison,
10:36Samantha did keep in contact with him.
10:39But I think what we've got to remember is that Samantha and Raoul Mote
10:43had been separated for the best part of a year,
10:47but she had a daughter to him, and she kept in touch with him
10:52for the sake of that child.
10:54Samantha tried to convince Mote over the phone that it was over,
10:58but any talk of separation fell on deaf ears.
11:02She was probably scared of him.
11:04You'd be scared if you have, you know, a man that big saying,
11:07I am the man, and if you don't do what I tell you, you know,
11:09you're going to get hurt or something.
11:12So she didn't know how to escape.
11:14So him being put in prison to her was like,
11:18you know, something helped her out here.
11:20You know, she finally was away from him.
11:23But the problem was Sam knew he was coming back.
11:26In his mind, the relationship wasn't over.
11:30Uh, in his mind, they were going to reconcile,
11:33but she didn't, uh, have that plan at all.
11:37And, uh, and the sort of straw that appears to have broken
11:41the camel's back was her announcing the fact
11:44that she was in a new relationship with, uh, Christopher Brown.
11:49Christopher, a 29-year-old karate instructor,
11:53originally from Berkshire, moved to Newcastle in October 2009.
11:59He met Samantha in June 2010, whilst Moat was still in prison.
12:05Christopher's mother, Sally, was unaware of their relationship.
12:10As far as I know, Sam and Christopher only met each other
12:14a couple of weeks.
12:15They hadn't been going out with each other for very long at all.
12:19Christopher went up to Newcastle.
12:21He said he's going for the weekend.
12:22I said, OK, fine.
12:25And then I got a phone call sort of, like, a few days later.
12:27He said, well, Mum, I've got a chance of work here with karate.
12:31I'm going to stay.
12:31I said, didn't like it, but OK, fine.
12:35And that was it.
12:36He seemed to settle down.
12:38Loved what he was doing.
12:39Samantha had told Moat that her new boyfriend
12:43was a police officer.
12:44Christopher was never a police officer, never.
12:47He was a karate instructor, never even thought of joining the police force.
12:54So I think she was just trying to back Moat off.
12:58So I think that must be the only reason she told him that.
13:00She lied to Moat because she was afraid of Moat.
13:05And she knew that when he came out, he would have gone to her and to the new boyfriend.
13:09So she started saying that he was a police officer because that wouldn't intimidate people.
13:13She also said that he was a karate instructor of a black belt in karate.
13:17Periods of separation are a really high risk time for people who've just come out of an abusive relationship.
13:23Because the abuser has essentially lost control at this point in time.
13:27The victim has taken some power back and has some authority now over their own lives.
13:33And the abuser hates that.
13:34And they're going to resort to quite drastic measures to get that control back.
13:38So the only thing he had to look forward to is going back to Sam, to the person he loved.
13:45And then she took that away from him, right?
13:47And that would just like completely bring his anger to surface like crazy.
13:53There's no doubt at all that those conversations while Moat was in Durham prison
13:59were the blue touch papers that ignited the bonfire that became Raoul Moat.
14:05Moat's anger was uncontrollable.
14:10He decided he was going to kill Christopher Brown as soon as he got out of jail.
14:17He enlisted the help of a friend, Carl Ness.
14:24Moat started planning this while he was in prison.
14:26He recruited or used Carl Ness to keep an eye on Samantha
14:31and do what we would call surveillance by watching our house,
14:37seeing who comes and goes, identifying vehicles,
14:40and try and identify who the new boyfriend was.
14:43On Thursday, the 1st of July, 2010, 37-year-old Raoul Moat was released from prison.
14:51He didn't waste any time.
14:53It's alleged that Carl Ness had found a shotgun for him to use.
14:56The way in which Moat planned this was quite meticulous.
14:59He took steps to try and identify the karate instructor, i.e. Christopher,
15:06by making phone calls to health centers, to karate clubs,
15:12to the extent that he actually drove around the routes that they took on the fatal night.
15:19Uh, they actually had a dry run, if you like, on the Thursday night.
15:25On Friday the 2nd of July, staff at Durham Prison warned Northumbria Police
15:32that Moat might pose a risk to Samantha, but, unfortunately, the information wasn't acted upon.
15:40The same day, Moat was captured on CCTV in Newcastle sporting a Mohican hairstyle.
15:47Later that night, Carl Ness drove Moat to nearby Gateshead,
15:52where Samantha and Christopher were at a house party.
15:57Moat was dropped off quite near the address that Samantha and Christopher were visiting,
16:02and he was able to walk in there and hide himself underneath the front window,
16:07next to the front door, where he was able to listen,
16:11because it was a July night, the window was open, it was warm.
16:14He could hear people talking and saying things, and he picked up on things that were being said
16:20about him, or things that he perceived to be about him, and he started texting his friend,
16:25Ness, and expressing his anger and frustration at what he was hearing.
16:29This is going on, it's really annoying me, he's essentially venting,
16:33and this is something that you see narcissistic people do quite a lot.
16:37They want an audience for their complaints and their rants, they want validation,
16:41they want other people to agree with them and say, yeah, you're completely reasonable.
16:47Moat lay in wait outside the house.
16:52Around about 2.30 in the morning, Samantha and Christopher leave,
16:56and as they came out the front door, Moat stood up.
17:01He was clearly armed with a gun, and pretty much without warning,
17:06he immediately shot Christopher. Christopher started trying to run away,
17:12and as he tried to run across the grass area, he was shot again, which was enough to make him fall.
17:19Moat then calmly walked over, reloaded his gun in front of witnesses,
17:24and then shot him a third time, causing his death.
17:28It was nothing more than a cold and calculated assassination.
17:33It was a public execution. Moat had used a sawn-off shotgun to shoot Christopher Brown at point-blank range.
17:42Certainly with a close-range discharge of a shotgun, even with small pellets,
17:46you're going to get a large mass going into the body that's going to lacerate major organs,
17:51major blood vessels, very likely to be fatal.
17:55To create maximum damage, Moat had loaded his shotgun with lead fishing weights.
18:02They're bigger, they're heavier, they do more damage,
18:05they're going to make those discharges more lethal.
18:10Christopher had no chance of survival,
18:12but amidst the horror unfolding in front of her very eyes,
18:16Samantha had managed to run back into the house to seek refuge.
18:21After he'd shot Chris, he then turned around and walked towards the house that they had been in.
18:27He could clearly see that Samantha was in the sitting room there,
18:30and he fired a shot at Samantha, which went through the window and struck her in the abdomen,
18:34causing her some critical injuries.
18:36So he'd fatally wounded one victim, he'd critically injured a second victim,
18:44and then he calmly walked away from the scene.
18:49Moat had no idea whether he'd killed Samantha or not.
18:54Well, most people, when they commit a murder,
18:56they are absolutely horrified at what they've done.
18:59They can't quite believe that the magnitude of it,
19:01they often go into a state of shock and literally don't know what they're doing afterwards.
19:07But Moat was very calm, he was very calculated.
19:09He phoned his friend, he said, I'm full of beans,
19:12and the reason for that was because he thought he'd restored the natural order of things.
19:16He felt entitled to carry out those shootings.
19:21Moat had casually left the scene armed with his shotgun.
19:25For him, it seemed to have been a bit like mission accomplished,
19:29and he seemed quite calm and pleased with himself.
19:33But he would not remain calm for long.
19:36Raoul Moat had killed Christopher Brown and critically injured Samantha
19:41in front of other party guests.
19:43The police had been called and knew immediately who the killer was.
19:49Moat was on the run.
19:51Over the next seven days, a huge manhunt would take place across the northeast of England.
19:57Raoul Moat had become Britain's most wanted man.
20:11In the early hours of Saturday the 3rd of July 2010, Raoul Moat had executed Christopher Brown
20:19before shooting and critically injuring his ex-girlfriend Samantha.
20:23The police were searching for the 37-year-old, but he was one step ahead.
20:29Moat had left a letter with a friend to deliver to detectives later in the day.
20:35It warned the police would pay for what they've done.
20:38DR. He had a 49-page letter that he'd written outlining his complaints about various things,
20:45and you often see this with people who are narcissistic.
20:47When they have a complaint, when they're angry about something,
20:50it's not enough for them to just make a concise statement
20:53and sum it up neatly.
20:55They will go on and on and on.
20:57And in these statements and these letters, they'll be saying,
21:01you know, this is all about victimizing me.
21:04I'm the victim here.
21:05Everybody's out to get me.
21:07And it goes on.
21:08It's embellished.
21:09It's exaggerated.
21:09He's a classic narcissist.
21:11The same day, 300 miles away in Berkshire, uniformed officers paid a visit to Sally Brown,
21:20the mother of murdered 29-year-old karate instructor Christopher.
21:26It was our local police that came around to me.
21:30They just said that there'd been an incident and that Christopher was dead,
21:33but then I had the family liaison officer from Newcastle on the phone,
21:39and they didn't tell me too much over the phone.
21:42I think it was a case of, I wasn't listening anyway.
21:46All I heard was, your son's dead.
21:48That was it.
21:49It's, you seem to sort of cut everything else off.
21:52And when you're told something like this, you,
21:57I think your body and your brain just goes into,
22:01um, how could I describe it?
22:03You're hearing people, they're talking to you.
22:09And at the time, I was at home, I was listening to these people on the phone,
22:15and I was talking to the police officers at the house with me,
22:20but I could also hear my daughter screaming in the background.
22:24She's absolutely gone hysterical.
22:25He was a lad. He was a typical little boy.
22:31He was just very happy, laughing all the time.
22:35And he would help anybody if he could.
22:38He wouldn't let anyone get hurt.
22:41He was just a nice lad.
22:43But then I'm biased, I suppose, because he's my boy.
22:49When you lose one of your children, you just can't describe it.
22:53I can't describe it. It's horrendous.
22:58While the Brown family mourned, Raoul Moat was still on the run.
23:03His hatred towards the police was rising.
23:06Samantha had told Moat that Christopher Brown worked for them.
23:10I think he was on the understanding
23:12that Christopher was a police officer,
23:13because Sam had gone in and told him that he was a police officer.
23:17Christopher has never been in the police force.
23:18He's a karate instructor, and whether she thought telling him that he was
23:28would back him off a bit, I don't know.
23:31Moat's hostility towards the police was turning into a vendetta,
23:35and he was keen for them to know who they were dealing with.
23:39In the early hours of Sunday the 4th of July,
23:42after being on the run for 24 hours, Moat dialed 999.
23:48This is the gunman from Berkeley last night.
23:50My name is Raoul Moat.
23:52What I'm talking about is to tell you exactly why you've done what I've done.
23:55Right?
23:56Now, my girlfriend has been having an affair behind my back,
23:59but one of your officers, this gentleman that I shot last night,
24:01the karate instructor, right?
24:03Now, you bastards have been on to me, right, for years.
24:06He's have hustled us, harassed us, he has just warned dealers alone.
24:09He was wanting me to do myself in, and I was going to do it,
24:13until I found out about him properly, and what was going on.
24:16And as soon as I found out with the officer, I thought,
24:17nah, you've had too much from me. You've had too much from me.
24:20You'll get your chance to kill us, right? You'll get your chance to kill us.
24:23We don't want to do that. We don't want to do that.
24:26You just wanted me to kill myself, but I'm going to give Hughes a chance,
24:29because I am hunting for officers now.
24:31Raoul Moat spent a number of minutes ranting on the phone,
24:37effectively declaring war on Northumbria police and saying,
24:39I'm coming to get you. Yous have ruined my life. I'm coming to get you.
24:43Essentially, he wants an audience. He wants to vent.
24:47And this call really is a poor-me monologue.
24:51He's saying to the operator, this is all your fault, you being the police.
24:55You've done this to me. It's all about him.
24:58It's saying, these are the reasons why I've done what I've done,
25:02because I've been driven to it by other people. I'm not responsible.
25:07After making the 999 call, Moat had stepped up his vendetta against the police.
25:14A friend, Karam Awan, was driving him around in a black Lexus.
25:19Moat was actively hunting for police officers.
25:23Moat's two closest associates in the criminal underworld were Ness and Awan.
25:31They assisted him the moment that he left Durham prison.
25:37Just 12 minutes after making his threatening call to police,
25:41Moat spotted a sitting police car at a roundabout in the Denton area.
25:46Inside was 42-year-old PC David Rathband.
25:52Moat's approached the car from behind,
25:54tapped on the passenger window, and David turned.
25:56And as soon as he turned, Moat shot once through the window,
26:01which hit David right in the middle of the face.
26:04He fell into the foot compartment of his car.
26:07Despite his serious condition, PC Rathband tried to activate the emergency button in his vehicle.
26:14Moat then shot him for a second time and calmly walked away.
26:20Moat was on the angry rampage.
26:22If he had passed another police officer on the motorcycle,
26:24he probably would have stopped and shot him as well.
26:26If there was a police officer in the shop, he would probably shoot him as well.
26:28It's because he only found one.
26:30If he had found more, he would have shot more.
26:32When Rao Moat shot PC David Rathband, it signified a real escalation in his offending.
26:38This wasn't just about Rao Moat and people who had annoyed him.
26:41It was a callous attack. David Rathband had sustained life-threatening injuries.
26:48He had survived, but he would never see again.
26:52As a forensic pathologist, if you're told somebody has been shot at very close range
26:58in the face with a shotgun, you're expecting to perform an autopsy.
27:02That person is almost certainly dead.
27:05I think it's almost miraculous that David Rathband survived what happened to him.
27:11You can see from the x-rays the number of little pellets in him.
27:15Any one of those could easily have gone and struck something utterly vital and killed him.
27:21He's being shot in the face.
27:22Moat made yet another 999 call.
27:26He was determined to make sure the police knew it was him who'd shot the 42-year-old father of two.
27:32Within maybe an hour of that incident, Moat basically asked Northumbria police,
27:40do you believe me now?
27:42I've just downed one of your guys and just remind colleagues in Northumbria
27:46that I'm coming to get you.
27:49And that was a big, big game changer in this manhunt.
27:54What appeared at first to be a domestic dispute with a fatal outcome
27:59was quickly evolving into a much bigger story with nationwide interest.
28:04Jeremy Thompson was the anchor for Sky News.
28:08Within 24 hours, policeman David Rathband had been shot in the face.
28:14A rare occurrence for a policeman to be shot in Britain.
28:17That really ramped up the story.
28:19The media poured into the North East very quickly.
28:23It became an unprecedented manhunt over that long hot July week up in the North East of England.
28:31And the media interest was intense.
28:34People had their televisions and their radios switched on round the clock.
28:40It was a difficult time for the Brown family.
28:43I couldn't turn the news on because every time something came up about it,
28:49it was always Round Moat's photo that they were showing.
28:54Because he was the one that was on the run and what have you.
28:57But even afterwards, I said to the police once that it seems as though
29:06Christopher was a number put under the carpet.
29:09The following day, Monday the 5th of July,
29:14it emerged that Moat had posted on his Facebook page,
29:17I've lost everything. Watch and see what happens.
29:21With his behavior becoming increasingly erratic,
29:25the authorities were warning the public not to approach him.
29:29This wasn't just about Raoul Moat and his personal issues with his relationships.
29:34This represented a real risk to the public.
29:37So the scale of this case now was incredibly significant.
29:41It was an operation that was supported by police forces from across the country,
29:46colleagues from London, Liverpool, Manchester.
29:49There was equipment sent from Northern Ireland.
29:51There was a huge response to this because day-to-day policing had to continue
29:57in the Northumbria police area.
29:58They had to be there in numbers and they had to have the right equipment.
30:02They had to be armed.
30:03It was on an epic scale. They had not only got 160 armed officers,
30:09but also they'd got special armoured vehicles.
30:12They'd got specially trained tracker dogs.
30:16They'd got helicopters up.
30:18And they'd even got an RAF jet up there running reconnaissance missions over that whole area.
30:25It was an extraordinary reaction to what they knew at the time to be perhaps no more than one man
30:33with a gun on the loose.
30:34After shooting and blinding PC David Rathband at Point Blank Range on Sunday, July the 4th,
30:42Moat had gone off the radar.
30:44Two shooting incidents in 24 hours and then gone.
30:50No more phone calls, no more messages.
30:53He just vanished into thin air.
30:54We did not know where he was.
30:56He had come down, caused all that damage and then disappeared.
31:01Police appealed to the gunman to turn himself in,
31:05but Moat remained on the loose, armed and extremely dangerous.
31:21On the 5th of July 2010, police were searching for 37-year-old Raoul Moat in and around Rothbury.
31:29Moat was on the run after shooting three people. One of them, 29-year-old Christopher Brown, was dead.
31:38The following day, on the 6th of July, the black Lexus Moat had used when he shot PC Rathband
31:46was found abandoned in the small town of Rothbury, 30 miles north of Newcastle.
31:52Police set up a two-mile exclusion zone and urged residents to stay indoors.
32:00The hunt suddenly started to focus on a very pretty market town called Rothbury,
32:06right on the edge of the Northumberland National Park, a beautiful little town on the Coquit River,
32:13surrounded by glorious, but pretty remote countryside. Presumably Moat knew pretty well
32:20and felt that he could steer clear of the police around there and whatever game he had in mind,
32:26whatever he was doing to taunt the police at the time or to evade the police. He felt it was his best bet.
32:35There was still no sign of Moat, but police had found an abandoned campsite in Rothbury
32:41and a dictaphone with recordings of Moat complaining how unhappy he was with the media reports
32:47about his private life. He also made threats to the general public unless the stories stopped.
32:54So he's listening to what's going on in the media, he's following the coverage,
32:59so all of this is going to be fueling his aggravation and his sense of annoyance essentially.
33:05So this is somebody who's becoming incredibly dangerous the more bruised their ego becomes.
33:10On Wednesday the 7th of July 2010, police found yet another letter in a tent.
33:18It was addressed to his ex-girlfriend Samantha. Moat was somewhere nearby,
33:24but detectives still didn't know exactly where. They offered a £10,000 reward for any information
33:31that could lead to the 37-year-old's capture.
33:34I would ask people to keep contacting either Northumbria police or Crimestoppers with any
33:41information they believe may be relevant. There is a £10,000 reward for information
33:48which leads to the detention of Mr Moat. The media interest in the case was intensifying
33:56with rolling 24-hour news reports. By Thursday the 8th of July, Moat had now been on the run
34:03for five days, but the police had finally made a breakthrough.
34:08It's one of the most curious twists in this whole story that at one stage,
34:14a few days into the manhunt, police were telling us they believe that Moat was holding two hostages.
34:23But then strangely, this story twisted round. The next thing we hear is that the police have arrested
34:29two men, Ness and a one, who they now tell us they believe were friends and aiders and abettors
34:39of the runaway man, Raoul Moat. Within 24 hours, he'd gone from two hostages to two men arrested,
34:47believed to have some involvement in Moat's escape and perhaps even the shootings itself.
34:53The arrest of Moat's accomplices, 26-year-old Carl Ness and 23-year-old Karam Awan was a mere sideshow
35:03to the manhunt around Rothbury. By now, the media had been issued with a news blackout.
35:10Not a complete blackout, but a blackout on some of the personal details that clearly they felt was
35:19stirring up Moat even more, making him even more potentially dangerous.
35:25The hunt for Raoul Moat had elevated the killer to a bizarre cult status.
35:31So for some people, Raoul Moat is an anti-hero.
35:35He represents somebody who stands up to authority, somebody who doesn't follow the rules,
35:40and for some people, that's something to be admired, unfortunately.
35:43Moat's time was running out. On Friday the 9th of July,
35:49a local resident spotted a man walking next to the river in Rothbury.
35:55She approached a police patrol who went down to check it out. As soon as Moat saw the police
36:01vehicle, he sunk to his knees, put the gun to his head, and that's when the standoff started.
36:09Some of those images will live with me forever. I can remember them vividly, live,
36:15constantly going back to seeing what was happening, Moat on his knees.
36:19That riverbank is the abiding image of Raoul Moat in almost everybody's mind.
36:25On the evening of Friday the 9th of July, the nation was glued to their television sets
36:32as the drama unfolded. But this wasn't a film. It was real life.
36:38The police were dealing with a man who was erratic, armed, and extremely dangerous.
36:45We had police negotiators who were there on the scene, face to face,
36:50who spent the next six hours or so speaking to him and trying to persuade him that the right
36:58thing to do was put the gun down and surrender himself to custody.
37:02The police were determined to make sure that Moat came out of the standoff alive.
37:08The presence of the media added extra pressure on their performance.
37:13You're there focused on doing your job, but you're doing your job in the knowledge that
37:21there's lots of people watching you, scrutinizing you, and some of them judging you.
37:24But Moat wasn't planning on giving himself up so easily, and the case continued to attract media attention.
37:32An extraordinary part of this story was the involvement of celebrities.
37:37It's almost as the manhunt came to its dramatic and fatal climax.
37:47We got the almost bizarre scene of Gaza, Paul Gascoigne, a famous England footballer,
37:55turning up in his dressing gown, claiming to know Raoul Moat, and offering Moat chicken and lager if he gave himself up.
38:08Didn't come to anything. The police just asked Gaza to politely leave the town and had nothing more to do with it.
38:19As the night of Friday the 9th of July turned into the early hours of Saturday,
38:24the situation remained tense. Negotiations with Moat weren't working,
38:31and he remained where he was, with a gun pointed at his own head.
38:37It was an incredibly long and tense night. Darkness fell.
38:43We really could see very little of what was going on. We could just see the outlines of the police cordon,
38:49and the night dragged on after midnight into the small hours,
38:56and it was around 1 o'clock in the morning when there was a dramatic series of events,
39:02hard to make out. It was confused. It was dark. It was very difficult to know exactly what the sequence of events were.
39:09In one last attempt to capture Moat, the police decided to use a taser on the 37-year-old.
39:16They were determined to take him alive.
39:20On this occasion, the tasers that were used were long tasers, like shotgun-style tasers,
39:28which hadn't yet been approved for use by the police.
39:31When you're in a mindset and a determination to arrest somebody to call them to account for the crimes
39:39that they've committed in the safest possible way, then it was right and proper that it was given a try.
39:47It didn't work.
39:48At approximately 1.15 a.m. on Sunday the 10th of July, the sound of a shotgun blast,
39:58followed by shouting, signaled that Raoul Moat had taken his own life.
40:05I don't think the police had any chance of talking Raoul Moat down. He wanted to be iconic.
40:10He wanted to be infamous. He wanted to go out with a bang and not a whimper.
40:14A seven-day manhunt and a six-hour standoff had come to a dramatic conclusion.
40:22He clearly had decided that he didn't want to be taken captive.
40:27He didn't want another sentence in jail again. This was it. This was his final stand.
40:34This was the moment he decided to pack up, give up, not be taken again.
40:39With Moat dead, the police could focus their attention on those who aided him during the seven days.
40:49At a trial at Newcastle Crown Court in March 2011, Moat's two accomplices, 26-year-old Carl Ness
40:58and 23-year-old Karam Awan were convicted of conspiracy to murder, attempted murder,
41:05and armed robbery. Awan was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years.
41:11Ness was further convicted of murder and a firearms offense and was sentenced to 40 years.
41:17Awan's defense solicitor, Jeremy Carter Manning, told reporters,
41:22this trial is Hamlet without the prince.
41:26They were Moat's assistants. They were, in every sense, the sorcerer's apprentice.
41:31They were there to facilitate Moat's plan, which was to become famous.
41:38He wanted his 15 minutes of celebrity, and boy, he was going to get them.
41:41In a further tragic turn, in February 2012, PC David Rathband took his own life.
41:50Unable to cope with his blindness since the shooting, he hanged himself.
41:56His colleagues at Northumbria Police believe that 44-year-old David had become Moat's second victim.
42:03David's involvement in this case, you know, he was a police officer doing his job in uniform
42:15to the best of his ability, and without warning, he suffered horrific injuries that changed his life
42:22and, in my view, ultimately led to his death.
42:26And I will always hold Raul Moat responsible for killing David Rathband.
42:31These people do these things, and they don't think about the consequences
42:35of the people that they leave behind.
42:37They said it would get easier, but no, it gets harder.
42:43Everybody talks about the Raul Moat case.
42:46This started as the Christopher Brown murder inquiry.
42:50My team that investigated it, it continued to be the Christopher Brown murder inquiry.
42:55The only thing he did wrong was he fell for a girl who Moat believed was his possession,
43:04and he would use any force to deal with that, and he did.
43:07And we should never forget that Christopher was the first victim here.
43:17Christopher was a very happy-go-lucky, fun-loving person.
43:23He was a good son, he was a good friend to his friends, a good brother to his sister.
43:29He's never out of our thoughts.
43:30I just miss him so much.
43:40Raul Moat was full of rage when he left Durham Prison on July the 1st, 2010,
43:47but no-one could have imagined the lengths he would go to
43:50in order to get back at his girlfriend.
43:53His murderous rampage left an innocent man dead, executed in cold blood.
43:58His ex-girlfriend wounded and scarred for life, and a police officer blind and suicidal.
44:06All this before turning the gun on himself.
44:10His selfish lust for revenge and notoriety turned him, at the time,
44:15into the most infamous man in the country, and one of Britain's most evil killers.
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