The police were right to believe he was still in the area. Sky news is reporting that the police have apprehended Moat and are negotiating with him but he has his own gun held to his head.
The country can no longer afford protracted trials and high profile police operations.
This man has spent enough of limited cash resources.
The liberals amongst us should put their hands in their pockets to personally pay for an extended operation or someone should take command and save us all the continued agony. The overtime on this doubles at midnight as its a weekend!
Not even his mother supports him!
Shoot him so we can all get to bed. The funeral will cost substantially less than the trial.
Well at least he has done something worthwhile in his life now.
He is dead so is another, and two very seriously injured and all because some nutter could not control his jealous rages...good riddance to bad rubbish as someone used to say to me when younger.
So Guls as you were the one with the conspiracy theory....did he really shoot himself or was it some banker/copper/or politician who did it? :twisted:
At least no copper this morning is having to hand his gun over, and then go through all that rubbish they put them through when a police officer shoots someone.
Lets hope he has a very private funeral.
i didn't think he had it in him to top himself!
well he did the decent thing in the end. good old fashioned honour and such like.
I'd like to think things are different.....but being a "layby" sort of person and dealing with police on a two-or-three times a week basis I know they are not.
Who is trying to point score?
I saw the article and I believe it is not that accurate...how is that twisting things?
I certainly will not pm.
I do not think the names of the officers was revealed, so remembering is not much of an issue.
The verdict is though.
The Media behaved,predictably ( as the Hyena pack that they are) by Whining at what little scraps of real or Mis information the Police fed them. The media seem to feel they have a god given right to gate crash any security situation and if not allowed to then they invent stuff which can, does and did make this situation worse but what do they care so long as it makes for sensational tv or sells more copies of their paper?
Raoul Moat is not the first ,nor will he be the last person to be betrayed and have his whole world wrecked by a partner.
This can and does happen to women as well as men.
"Heaven knows no rage like love to hatred turned
Nor Hell a fury like a 'Lover' Scorned."
In this case, Clearly, he became unhinged in Prison and set a course for violent revenge against his partner and her knockoff.
Had she Not told him that she had being 'Seeing' a Police Officer (which she was not) then Moat might Not have focussed on the grudge that led to him shooting that innocent Copper as well and i hope she reflects on that.
The Media's distorted reports further wound him up to extend his target base to include the general public(re: his recorded dictaphone message). I hope the Media are cited as a factor by the Police inquiry and held accountable somehow (not holding my breath on that one).The fact remains that Raoul Moat is now dead and beyond punishment for his actions.
99.9% of people who have experienced this kind of betrayal do not go as far as 'crossing the line' but many of them will have thought long and hard about doing so when they are at their Raw-est.
How many more cases like this (not nessesarily involving a gun but result in one or more people dying violently) will we see from people who are, 'As mad as Hell and not going to take it anymore'?