All language subtitles for Britains.Most.Evil.Killers.S02E04.WEBRip.en

[ Suspenseful music plays ]

-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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[ Suspenseful music plays ]

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.

♪♪

-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.

[ Piano plays suspenseful tune ]

-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.

[ Melancholy tune plays ]

-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.

♪♪

-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.

♪♪

-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.

♪♪

-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."

♪♪

-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.

[ Melancholy tune plays ]

-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.

♪♪

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.

♪♪

-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.

[ Suspenseful chord strikes ]

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.

♪♪

-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."

♪♪

-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.

♪♪

-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.

♪♪

[ 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.

♪♪

♪♪

[ Suspenseful music climbs ]

[ Suspenseful chord strikes ]

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