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-In July 2010,

one man declared war

on the Northumbria Police force.

After being released from prison,

37-year-old Raoul Moat

shot his ex-girlfriend;

killed her new partner;

and critically injured a police officer,

shooting him at point-blank range.

-Moat rang the 999 system again

and just basically asked Northumbria Police,

"Do you believe me now?

I've just downed one of your guys."

-The search for Raoul Moat had become

the biggest news story in the country.

-People were following every move of this

and, during that week of the manhunt,

people had their televisions and their radios switched on

round the clock.

-After a dramatic standoff with police

aired live on British television,

Moat turned the shotgun on himself

and pulled the trigger.

-He wanted to be iconic.

He wanted to be infamous.

He wanted to go out with a bang and not a whimper.

-In just seven days, Raoul Moat had etched his name in history

as one of the world's most evil killers.

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It was a news story that gripped the nation.

In the early hours of Saturday, the 10th of July 2010,

37-year-old Raoul Moat shot himself

after a six-hour standoff with Northumbria police.

One of the biggest manhunts in UK history

had come to a dramatic end.

Moat had been on the run for seven days

after critically injuring his former girlfriend

and killing her new boyfriend.

He'd gone on to declare war on the police

and shot a uniformed officer.

Moat was armed, full of rage, and extremely dangerous.

Jim Napier was the senior investigating officer

at Northumbria Police.

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-It was clear that his intention was wider

that just targeting

his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.

He was, in his words, now targeting police officers.

Therefore, it was clear that the risk

and the threat had gone up quite significantly.

More armed officers had to be brought to the area

to support the hunt,

to find and arrest Moat,

because that's all we ever wanted to do,

was find and arrest him and bring him to justice.

-He's making a lot of threats.

He's saying, "This is it.

You've taken my life.

I'm going to take yours."

It's this real vendetta against the police.

He's basically saying, "I'm doing this

because I'm entitled to.

You better take me seriously."

[ Melancholy tune plays ] -Former Sky News anchor Jeremy Thompson

was following the story as it unfolded.

-It was a July day, the start of summer,

and not a lot of other stories around, so,

one story can suddenly take hold and dominate the news agenda,

so, without much else around, every news outfit in the country

sent their best resources up to the Newcastle area

to find out more about this story

and to find out more about the man

that the police believe was behind it all: Raoul Moat.

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-And this killer's story begins in 1973.

Raoul Moat was born on the 17th of June

in Gateshead, in the northeast of England.

-He was raised largely by his grandmother.

His mother had some mental health issues,

but she lived in the local area, so,

he did have some contact with her,

but it wasn't anything really out of the ordinary.

A lot of families have to cope with that kind of thing.

-During the 1970s and '80s,

the northeast of England was an area in economic decline.

Its traditional heavy industries,

such as shipbuilding and mining, were phased out

and many men lost their jobs.

-It wasn't a particularly economically prosperous area,

so it was always gonna be a challenge for Moat

to find his way in the world as a man.

Many teenagers go through a lot of changes,

particularly at momentous points in their teenage years.

When Moat was 16, he left school

and there were some changes in him around about that time,

so, he became quite fixated on bodybuilding

and this is something that you often find

with young, working-class lads in an area where

the prospects of those traditional

kind of tough, men's jobs are few and far between.

They look to other ways to become men,

to make themselves visibly masculine,

and I think that was what Moat was doing.

-When you see the results, then, in anything, you get more,

"Oh, wow. This is working."

So then he wanted more and more

and then he started to get into steroids.

-It was clear that Moat had

had some serious psychiatric problems growing up

and he'd obviously desired to express himself

as the big feller around town.

He was 6'3", 17 stone, and liked this idea

of being a large, well-built, muscled bodybuilder

and he clearly used a lot of steroids

and people who were close to him talked, time and time again,

about just what a terrible temper he'd got.

-Moat was somebody who has what I would describe

as poor behavioral control,

so, somebody who flies off the handle quite easily,

somebody who's quite readily aggravated,

and, if you throw steroids into the mix,

you get what people often refer to as roid rage, you know,

a real inability to control your temper,

and it increases the levels of testosterone in the body.

So, when somebody has a predilection

towards aggression and then you add that on top of it,

you've got a really toxic mix.

-Moat had found work as a tree surgeon

and his physical appearance came in handy

in his other role, as a nightclub doorman.

By 2005,

the 32-year-old was caught by the police,

carrying a knuckle-duster and a samurai sword.

He'd fallen foul of the law on numerous occasions.

-He was known to the police for incidents of domestic abuse.

He had a number of partners with which he had

troubled relationships with and the police were involved.

He had had arrests for, generally speaking,

low-level violence.

-By 2010,

37-year-old Moat had fathered several children

with different partners.

His latest girlfriend, Samantha, was 15 years his junior.

They'd been in an on-and-off relationship for six years

and had a daughter together.

-Well, the relationship between Samantha and Moat

was an incredibly controlling one.

It's one that I classify as coercively controlling.

So Moat believed that Samantha was his possession.

He was in control; he decided what happened

and she basically had to suck it up

and get on with it, so it was his rules.

Everything was focused around him.

-And he would control everything.

[ Melancholy tune plays ] He would control her movements,

what she could buy or could not buy,

what she did, you know, who she talked to on the phone.

So, obviously, Samantha would probably feel

like completely controlled.

She didn't have the right to do anything.

-You often find, in relationships like this,

women are kind of treading on eggshells,

trying not to upset their abusive partner,

but at the same time,

it's very, very difficult for them to leave.

Often, looking from the outside, we say,

"Well, why are you staying in this relationship?"

And, often, it's to keep themselves safe

because they know that, if they were to leave,

they'd put themselves in quite a significant amount of danger.

-Samantha was desperate to leave Raoul Moat

and, in the spring of 2010, a chance presented itself.

Moat was convicted of assaulting a family member

and sentenced to 18 weeks in Durham Prison,

something that only aggravated him further.

-I am not a psychologist, but, it was clear to me that

Moat was a bit of a psychopath.

He was always willing to blame others

for everything that he did wrong.

Everybody else was responsible.

The social services were wrong.

His legal team were wrong 'cause they gave him bad advice

and the police were picking on him.

-He's always laying the blame at somebody else's door

because he doesn't think that he can do anything wrong

and that's a classic trait of somebody who's narcissistic.

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-Raoul Moat was locked away,

but he was a man holding a grudge and wanted revenge.

For the past six years,

he had 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 relationship with Samantha.

For a man like Moat, it's very, very important

to be in control all of the time,

especially in terms of your personal relationships.

When he's removed from that domestic picture,

he has to try really hard to keep control, so,

he's on the phone to Samantha quite a lot.

He has one of his friends essentially stalking her

and checking what she's up to.

-While Moat was in prison,

Samantha did keep in contact with him.

She had a daughter to him,

and she kept in touch with him for the sake of that child.

-Samantha tried to convince Moat over the phone that it was over,

but any talk of separation fell on deaf ears.

-She was probably scared of him.

You'd be scared, if you have,

you know, a man that big saying,

"I am the man and, if you don't do what I tell you, you know,

you're gonna get hurt," or something.

So she didn't know how to escape.

So, him being put in prison, to her, it was like, "Whew!"

You know, something helped her out here.

You know, she finally was away from him.

But the problem was Sam knew he was coming back.

-In his mind, the relationship wasn't over.

In his mind, they were going to reconcile, but,

she didn't have that plan at all and the sort of straw

that appears to have broken the camel's back was

her announcing the 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 Newcastle in October 2009.

He met Samantha in June 2010, whilst Moat was still in prison.

Christopher's mother, Sally, was unaware of their relationship.

-As far as I know, Sam and Christopher

only met each other a couple of weeks.

They hadn't been going out with each other for very long at all.

Christopher went up to Newcastle.

He said he was going for the weekend.

I said, "Okay, fine."

And then I got a phone call sort of like a few days later

and he said, "Well, Mum, I've got a chance

for work here with karate.

I'm gonna stay."

Didn't like it, but, okay, fine, and that was it.

He seemed to settle down.

He loved what he was doing.

-Samantha had told Moat that her new boyfriend

was a police officer.

-Christopher was never a police officer, never.

He was a karate instructor.

Um --

Never even thought of joining the police force, so,

I think she was just trying to back Moat off,

so I think that must be the only reason she told him that.

-She'd lied to Moat because she was afraid of Moat

and she knew that, when he came out,

he would've gone to her andto the new boyfriend.

So she started saying that he was a police officer

'cause that would intimidate people.

She also said that he was a karate instructor,

a black belt in karate.

-Periods of separation are a really high-risk time

for people who have just come out of an abusive relationship

because the abuser has essentially lost control,

at this point in time.

The victim has taken some power back and has some authority,

now, over their own lives, and the abuser hates that

and they're gonna resort to quite drastic measures

to get that control back.

-So the only thing he had to look forward to

is going back to Sam, to the person he loved,

and then she took that away from him, right?

And that would just like completely

bring his anger to the surface, like crazy.

-There's no doubt at all that those conversations,

while Moat was in Durham Prison, were the blue touch papers

that ignited the bonfire that became Raoul Moat.

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-Moat's anger was uncontrollable.

He decided he was going to kill Christopher Brown

as soon as he got out of jail.

He enlisted the help of a friend --

Karl Ness.

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-Moat started planning this while he was in prison.

He recruited or he used Karl Ness

to keep an eye on Samantha

and do what we would call surveillance,

by watching her house,

seeing who comes and goes, identifying vehicles,

and trying to identify who the new boyfriend was.

-On Thursday, the 1st of July 2010,

37-year-old Raoul Moat was released from prison.

He didn't waste any time.

It's alleged that Karl Ness had found a shotgun for him to use.

-The way in which Moat planned this was quite meticulous.

He took steps to try and identify the karate instructor,

i.e. Christopher, by making phone calls

to health centers, to karate clubs,

to the extent that he actually drove around the routes

that they took on the fatal night.

He actually had a dry run, if you like,

on the Thursday night.

-On Friday, the 2nd of July,

staff at Durham Prison warned Northumbria Police

that Moat might pose a risk to Samantha,

but, unfortunately, the information wasn't acted upon.

The same day, Moat was captured on CCTV in Newcastle,

sporting a Mohican hairstyle.

Later that night, Karl Ness drove Moat to nearby Gateshead,

where Samantha and Christopher were at a house party.

-Moat was dropped off quite near the address

that Samantha and Christopher were visiting

and he was able to walk in there

and hide himself underneath the front window,

next to the front door, where he was able to listen.

Because it was a July night, the window was open.

It was warm.

-He could hear people talking and saying things

and he picked up on things that were being said about him

or things that he perceived to be about him

and he started texting his friend Ness

and expressing his anger and frustration

at what he was hearing.

"This is going on. It's really annoying me."

He's essentially venting and this is something

that you see narcissistic people do quite a lot.

They want an audience for their complaints and their rants.

They want validation.

They want other people to agree with them and say,

"Yeah. You're completely reasonable."

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-Moat lay in wait outside the house.

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-Round about 2:30 in the morning,

Samantha and Christopher leave

and, as they come out of the front door, Moat stood up.

He was clearly armed with a gun and pretty much without warning,

he immediately shot Christopher.

Christopher started trying to run away

and, as he's trying to run across the grass area,

he was shot again,

which was was enough to make him fall.

Moat then calmly walked over,

reloaded his gun in front of witnesses,

and then shot him a third time, causing his death.

It was nothing more than a cold and calculated assassination.

-It was a public execution.

[ Gunshot ] Moat had used a sawn-off shotgun

to shoot Christopher Brown at point-blank range.

-Certainly, with a close-range

discharge of a shotgun, even with small pellets,

you're going to get a large mass going into the body.

That's going to lacerate major organs,

major blood vessels, very likely to be fatal.

-To create maximum damage,

Moat had loaded his shotgun with lead fishing weights.

-They're bigger. They're heavier.

They do more damage.

They're going to make those discharges more lethal.

-Christopher had no chance of survival,

but amidst the horror unfolding in front of her very eyes,

Samantha had managed to run back into the house to seek refuge.

-After he'd shot Chris, he then turned round

and walked towards the house that they'd been in.

He could clearly see that Samantha was

in the sitting room there and he fired a shot at Samantha

which went through the window and struck her in the abdomen,

causing her some critical injuries.

So he had fatally wounded one victim;

he had critically injured a second victim,

and then he calmly walked away from the scene.

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-Moat had no idea

whether he'd killed Samantha or not.

-Well, most people, when they commit a murder,

they are absolutely horrified at what they've done.

They can't quite believe the magnitude of it.

They often go into a state of shock

and literally don't know what they're doing afterwards,

but Moat was very calm; he was very calculated.

He phoned his friend.

He said, "I'm full of beans,"

and the reason for that was because he thought

he'd restored the natural order of things.

He felt entitled to carry out those shootings.

-Moat had casually left the scene armed with his shotgun.

-For him, it seemed to have been a bit like

"Mission accomplished,"

and he seemed quite calm and pleased with hisself.

-But he would not remain calm for long.

Raoul Moat had killed Christopher Brown

and critically injured Samantha in front of other party guests.

[ Siren wailing ] The police were searching

[ Suspenseful music plays ] for the 37-year-old,

but he was one step ahead.

Moat had left a letter with a friend

to deliver to detectives later in the day.

It warned the police would "pay for what they've done."

-He had a 49-page letter that he'd written,

outlining his complaints about various things,

and you often see this with people who are narcissistic.

When they have a complaint, when they're angry about something,

it's not enough for them to just make a concise statement

and sum it up neatly.

They will go on and on and on and, in these statements

and these letters, they'll be saying, you know,

"This is all about victimizing me.

I'm the victim here. Everybody's out to get me."

And it goes on. It's embellished.

It's exaggerated.

He's a classic narcissist.

-The same day, 300 miles away, in Berkshire,

uniformed officers paid a visit to Sally Brown,

the mother of murdered

29-year-old karate instructor Christopher.

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-It was our local police that came round to me.

They just said that there'd been an incident

and that Christopher was dead, but then I had

the family liaison officer from Newcastle

[sniffling] on the phone

and they didn't tell me too much over the phone.

I think it was a case of I wasn't listening, anyway.

All I heard was, "Your son's dead."

That was it. It's --

You seem to sort of cut everything else off when --

When you're told something like this, you --

I think your body and your brain just goes into --

Um, how could I describe it?

You're hearing people; they're talking to you.

And, at the time, I was at home.

I was listening to these people on the phone

and I was talking to the police officers

at the house with me, but I could also hear

my daughter screaming in the background.

She's absolutely gone hysterical.

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He was a lad. He was a typical little boy.

He was just very happy, laughing all the time,

and he would help anybody, if he could.

He wouldn't let anyone get hurt.

He was just a nice lad.

But then I'm biased, I suppose, [laughing] 'cause he's my boy.

When you lose one of your children,

you just can't describe it.

Can't describe it.

[sniffle] It's horrendous.

-While the Brown family mourned,

Raoul Moat was still on the run.

His hatred towards the police was rising.

Samantha had told Moat

that Christopher Brown worked for them.

-I think he was on the understanding

Christopher was a police officer because Sam had gone in

and told him that he was a police.

Christopher's never been in the police force.

He's...

a karate instructor and, whether she thought telling him

that he was would back him off a bit, I don't know.

-Moat's hostility towards the police

was turning into a vendetta,

and he was keen for them to know who they were dealing with.

In the early hours of Sunday, the 4th of July,

after being on the run for 24 hours,

Moat dialed 999.

You've had too much from me.

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-Raoul Moat spent a number of minutes ranting on the phone,

effectively declaring war on Northumbria Police

and saying, "I'm coming to get you.

Youse have ruined my life.

I'm coming to get you."

-Essentially, he wants an audience.

He wants to vent, and this call really is

a poor-me monologue.

He's saying to the operator,

"This is all your fault," "you" being the police.

"You've done this to me."

It's all about him.

It's saying, "These are the reasons

why I've done what I've done,

because I've been driven to it by other people.

I'm not responsible."

-After making the 999 call,

Moat had stepped up his vendetta against the police.

A friend, Qhuram Awan,

was driving him around in a black Lexus.

Moat was actively hunting for police officers.

-Moat's two closest associates

in the criminal underworld were Ness and Awan.

They assisted him the moment that he left Durham Prison.

-Just 12 minutes after making his threatening call to police,

Moat spotted a sitting police car

at a roundabout in the Denton area.

Inside was 42-year-old PC David Rathband.

-Moat approached the car from behind,

tapping the passenger window, and David turned and,

as soon as he turned, Moat shot...

[ Gunshot ] ...once through the window,

which hit David right in the middle of the face.

He fell into the foot compartment of his car.

-Despite his serious condition, PC Rathband tried

to activate the emergency button in his vehicle.

Moat then shot him for a second time and calmly walked away.

-Moat was on the angry rampage.

If he had passed another police officer on a motorcycle,

he probably would've stopped and shot him as well.

If there was a police officer in the shop,

he'd probably shoot him as well.

It's because he only found one.

If he had found more, he would've shot more.

-When Raoul Moat shot PC David Rathband,

it signified a real escalation in his offending.

This wasn't just about Raoul Moat

and people who had annoyed him.

-It was a callous attack.

David Rathband had sustained life-threatening injuries.

He had survived, but he would never see again.

-As a forensic pathologist,

if you're told somebody has been shot

at very close range, in the face, with a shotgun,

you're expecting to perform an autopsy.

That person

is almost certainly dead.

I think it's almost miraculous

that David Rathband survived

what happened to him.

You can see, from the X-rays,

the number of little pellets in him.

Any one of those could easily have gone

and struck something utterly vital and killed him.

He's been shot in the face.

-Moat made yet another 999 call.

He was determined to make sure the police knew it was him

who'd shot the 42-year-old father of two.

-Within maybe an hour of that incident,

Moat basically asked Northumbria Police,

"Do you believe me now?

I've just downed one of your guys

and just remind colleagues in Northumbria

that I'm coming to get you,"

and that was a big, big game-changer in this manhunt.

-What appeared, at first, to be

a domestic dispute with a fatal outcome

was quickly evolving into a much bigger story

with nationwide interest.

Jeremy Thompson was the anchor for Sky News.

-Within 24 hours,

policeman David Rathband had been shot in the face,

a rare occurrence,

for a policeman to be shot in Britain.

That really ramped up the story.

The media poured into the Northeast very quickly.

It became an unprecedented manhunt

over that long, hot, July week up in the northeast of England

and the media interest was intense.

People had their televisions and their radios switched on

round the clock.

-It was a difficult time for the Brown family.

-I couldn't turn the news on because [sniffle]

every time something came up about it,

it was always Raoul Moat's photo that they were showing

because he was the one that was on the run and what have you,

but, even afterwards [sniffle] I said to the police, once,

that, "It seems as though [sniffle]

Christopher was a number put under the carpet."

-The following day, Monday, the 5th of July,

it emerged that Moat had posted on his Facebook page,

"I've lost everything.

Watch and see what happens."

With his behavior becoming increasingly erratic,

the authorities were warning the public not to approach him.

-This wasn't just about Raoul Moat

and his personal issues with his relationships.

This represented a real risk to the public, so,

the scale of this case, now, was incredibly significant.

-It was an operation that was supported

by police forces from across the country,

colleagues from London, Liverpool, Manchester.

There was equipment sent from Northern Ireland.

There was a huge response to this

because day-to-day policing had to continue

in the Northumbria Police area.

They had to be there in numbers

and they had to have the right equipment.

They had to be armed.

-It was on an epic scale.

They had not only got 160 armed officers,

but also, they'd got special armored vehicles.

They'd got specially trained tracker dogs.

They'd got helicopters up

and they'd even got an RAF jet up there,

running reconnaissant missions over that whole area.

It was an extraordinary reaction to what they knew, at the time,

to be perhaps no more than one man with a gun on the loose.

-After shooting and blinding PC David Rathband

at point-blank range on Sunday, July the 4th,

Moat had gone off the radar.

-Two shooting incidents in 24 hours and then gone.

No more phone calls; no more messages.

He just vanished into thin air.

-We did not know where he was.

He had come down,

caused all that damage and then disappeared.

-Police appeal to the gunman to turn himself in,

but Moat remained on the loose, armed, and extremely dangerous.

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On the 6th of July,

the black Lexus Moat had used when he shot PC Rathband

was found abandoned

in the small town of Rothbury, 30 miles north of Newcastle.

Police set up a two-mile exclusion zone

and urged residents to stay indoors.

-The hunt suddenly started to focus

on a very pretty market town called Rothbury,

right on the edge of the Northumberland National Park,

a beautiful little town on the Coquet River,

surrounded by glorious, but pretty remote, countryside

that, presumably, Moat knew pretty well

and felt that he could

steer clear of the police around there

and, whatever game he had in mind,

whatever he was doing to taunt the police, at the time,

or to evade the police, he felt it was his best bet.

-There was still no sign of Moat, but police had found

an abandoned campsite in Rothbury and a Dictaphone

with recordings of Moat complaining how unhappy he was

with the media reports about his private life.

He also made threats to the general public,

unless the stories stopped.

-So, he's listening to what's going on in the media.

He's following the coverage,

so all of this is gonna be fueling his aggravation

and his sense of annoyance, essentially.

So, this is somebody who's becoming incredibly dangerous

the more bruised their ego becomes.

-On Wednesday, the 7th of July 2010,

police found yet another letter in a tent.

It was addressed to his ex-girlfriend, Samantha.

Moat was somewhere nearby,

but detectives still didn't know exactly where.

They offered a £10,000 reward for any information

that could lead to the 37-year-old's capture.

-I would ask people to keep contacting

either Northumbria Police or Crimestoppers

with any information they believe may be relevant.

There is a £10,000 reward

for information which leads to the detention of Mr. Moat.

-The media interest in the case was intensifying,

with rolling 24-hour news reports.

By Thursday, the 8th of July,

Moat had now been on the run for five days,

but the police had finally made a breakthrough.

-One of the most curious twists in this whole story,

that, at one stage, a few days into the manhunt,

police were telling us they believe

that Moat was holding two hostages,

but then, strangely, this story twisted round.

The next thing we hear

is that the police have arrested two men,

Ness and Awan,

who, they now tell us, they believe

were friends and aiders and abettors

of the runaway man, Raoul Moat.

Within 24 hours, it had gone from two hostages

to two men arrested,

believed to have some involvement in Moat's escape

and, perhaps, even the shootings itself.

-The arrest of Moat's accomplices,

26-year-old Karl Ness and 23-year-old Qhuram Awan,

was a mere sideshow to the manhunt around Rothbury.

By now, the media had been issued with a news blackout.

-Not a complete blackout,

but a blackout on some of the personal details

that, clearly, they felt was stirring up Moat even more,

making him even more potentially dangerous.

-The hunt for Raoul Moat

had elevated the killer to a bizarre cult status.

-So, for some people, Raoul Moat is an antihero, you know?

He represents somebody who stands up to authority,

somebody who doesn't follow the rules and, for some people,

that's something to be admired, unfortunately.

-Moat's time was running out.

On Friday, the 9th of July,

a local resident spotted a man

walking next to the river in Rothbury.

-She approached a police patrol, who went down to check it out.

As soon as Moat saw the police vehicle,

he sunk to his knees, put the gun to his head,

and that's when the standoff started.

-Some of those images will live with me forever.

I can remember them vividly, live,

constantly going back to seeing what was happening.

Moat, on his knees.

That riverbank is the abiding image

of Raoul Moat, in almost everybody's mind.

-On the evening of Friday, the 9th of July,

the nation was glued to their television sets

as the drama unfolded.

But this wasn't a film.

It was real life.

The police were dealing with a man who was erratic,

armed, and extremely dangerous.

-We had police negotiators

who were there on the scene, face-to-face,

who spent the next six hours or so speaking to him

and trying to persuade him that the right thing to do

was put the gun down and surrender hisself to custody.

-The police were determined to make sure that Moat

came out of the standoff alive.

The presence of the media

added extra pressure on their performance.

-You're there, focused on doing your job,

but you're doing your job

in the knowledge that there's lots of people watching you,

scrutinizing you, and some of them judging you.

-But Moat wasn't planning on giving himself up so easily

and the case continued to attract media attention.

-Extraordinary part of this story

was the involvement of celebrities.

Almost as the manhunt came to its dramatic

and fatal climax,

we got the almost bizarre scene

of Gazza, Paul Gascoigne, famous England footballer,

turning up in his dressing gown claiming to know Raoul Moat

and offering Moat chicken and lager,

if he gave himself up.

Didn't come to anything.

The police just asked Gazza to,

politely, leave the town

and had nothing more to do with it.

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-As the night of Friday, the 9th of July,

turned into the early hours of Saturday,

the situation remained tense.

Negotiations with Moat weren't working

and he remained where he was,

with a gun pointed at his own head.

-It was an incredibly long and tense night.

Darkness fell.

We really could see very little of what was going on.

We could just see the outlines of the police cordon.

And the night dragged on after midnight

into the small hours

and it was around 1:00 in the morning

when there was a dramatic series of events, hard to make out.

It was confused. It was dark.

It was very difficult to know

exactly what the sequence of events were.

-In one last attempt to capture Moat,

the police decided to use a Taser on the 37-year-old.

They were determined to take him alive.

-On this occasion, the Tasers that were used

were long Tasers, like shotgun-style Tasers,

which hadn't yet been approved for use by the police.

When you're in a mind-set

and a determination to arrest somebody,

to call them to account for the crimes

that they've committed in the safest possible way,

then, it was right and proper that it was given a try.

It didn't work.

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-At approximately 1:15 am on Sunday, the 10th of July,

the sound of a shotgun blast...

[ Gunshot, shouting ]

...followed by shouting

signaled that Raoul Moat had taken his own life.

-I don't think the police had any chance

of talking Raoul Moat down.

He wanted to be iconic.

He wanted to be infamous.

He wanted to go out with a bang and not a whimper.

-A seven-day manhunt and a six-hour standoff

had come to a dramatic conclusion.

[ Melancholy tune plays ]

-He clearly had decided that he didn't want to be taken captive.

He didn't want another sentence in jail again.

This was it. This was his final stand.

This was the moment he decided

to pack up, give up, not be taken again.

[ Sinister music plays ]

-With Moat dead,

the police focus their attention

on those who had aided him during the seven days.

In March 2011 at Newcastle Crown Court,

Moat's two accomplices,

26-year-old Karl Ness and 23-year-old Qhuram Awan,

were convicted of conspiracy to murder,

attempted murder, and armed robbery.

Awan was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years,

while Ness was further convicted

of murder and a firearms offense

and sentenced to a minimum 40 years.

Awan's defense solicitor told reporters,

"This trial is 'Hamlet' without the prince."

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-They were Moat's assistants.

They were, in every sense, the sorcerer's apprentice.

They were.

They had to facilitate Moat's plan,

which was to become famous.

He wanted his 15 minutes of celebrity

and, boy, he was gonna get them.

[ Melancholy tune plays ]

-In a further tragic turn,

in February 2012,

PC David Rathband took his own life.

Unable to cope with his blindness since the shooting,

he hanged himself.

His colleagues at Northumbria Police

believe that 44-year-old David had become Moat's second victim.

♪♪

-David's involvement in this case, you know,

he was a police officer doing his job in uniform

to the best of his ability and, without warning,

he suffered horrific injuries that changed his life

and, in my view, ultimately led to his death,

and I will always hold Raoul Moat responsible

for killing David Rathband.

-These people do these things,

and they don't think about the consequences

of the people that they leave behind.

They said it would get easier, but, no.

[sniffle] It gets harder.

-Everybody talks about the Raoul Moat case.

This started as

the Christopher Brown murder inquiry.

My team investigated it.

It continued to be

the Christopher Brown murder inquiry.

The only thing he did wrong was he fell for a girl

who Moat believed was his possession

and he would use any force to deal with that, and he did,

and 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.

He was a good son.

He was a good friend to his friends,

a good brother to his sister. [sniffle]

He's never out of our thoughts. He's --

I just miss him so much.

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[ Suspenseful music plays ]

-Raoul Moat was full of rage

when he left Durham Prison on July 1, 2010,

but no one could've imagined the lengths he would go to

in order to get back at his girlfriend.

His murderous rampage left an innocent man dead,

executed in cold blood;

his ex-girlfriend wounded and scarred for life;

and a police officer blind and suicidal;

all this before turning the gun on himself.

His selfish lust

for revenge and notoriety

turned him into the most infamous man in Britain

and one of the world's most evil killers.

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