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