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Serial Killer Documentary - Raoul Moat · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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