Friday, July 23, 2010
(pic: sam selling her story )
(pic: Sam's love story with Moat )The official version from the police is that Moat killed himself at 1.12am on July 10, 20ft from a line of officers armed with Heckler and Koch 36C assault rifles and the powerful XREP Tasers, newly imported from America.
They say that in those crucial seconds, one shot was fired by Moat with his sawn-off shotgun and two others by police using the XREP Taser, which is sold as 'non-lethal' weapon designed to halt a fleeing suspect in his tracks.
( pic:Police armed with both Tasers and Heckler and Koch assault rifles during the tense 6 hour stand-off with Moat )
(pic: A 'shotgun shell' Taser round of the type used during the Rothbury incident )
In death, fierce debate has surrounded the killer as it did in the final days of his life. The pathologist who conducted an initial post-mortem decided that his injuries were 'consistent' with a 'gunshot wound' to the head. The only other significant marks on Moat's body, said the pathologist's report, were a narrow bruise across his arm and a number of insect bites.
Raoul Thomas Moat, aged 37,was a panel beater, bouncer and tree surgeon from Newcastle upon Tyne. Prior to the shootings, Moat had attempted to get psychiatric help for himself.
Between February and July 2010, Moat served an 18-week sentence in Durham Prison for assaulting a nine-year-old child, a relative. A former bodybuilder and steroid user, he was said to be 6 ft 3in (1.90 m) tall and approximately 17st (108 kg), and according to relatives was prone to "eruptions of anger". He had a young daughter with Stobbart, and two other children from a previous relationship. Moat had one previous conviction for common assault, but was arrested 12 times resulting in charges for seven separate offences.As information about Moat emerged following the Birtley shootings, it became apparent he held a grudge against the police. He blamed them for the collapse of his business, claiming that he had "lost everything". His ex-girlfriend Stobbart had also reportedly told him that she had an affair with a police officer, but she later stated that this was a lie that she had told because she was frightened of him. Moat is believed to have posted threats to police and others on his Facebook profile shortly after being released, and made further detailed threats in two subsequent letters and several phone calls to police, in which he stated that he had no intention of harming the public but would continue to shoot police officers until he was dead.
Between February and July 2010, Moat served an 18-week sentence in Durham Prison for assaulting a nine-year-old child, a relative. A former bodybuilder and steroid user, he was said to be 6 ft 3in (1.90 m) tall and approximately 17st (108 kg), and according to relatives was prone to "eruptions of anger". He had a young daughter with Stobbart, and two other children from a previous relationship. Moat had one previous conviction for common assault, but was arrested 12 times resulting in charges for seven separate offences.As information about Moat emerged following the Birtley shootings, it became apparent he held a grudge against the police. He blamed them for the collapse of his business, claiming that he had "lost everything". His ex-girlfriend Stobbart had also reportedly told him that she had an affair with a police officer, but she later stated that this was a lie that she had told because she was frightened of him. Moat is believed to have posted threats to police and others on his Facebook profile shortly after being released, and made further detailed threats in two subsequent letters and several phone calls to police, in which he stated that he had no intention of harming the public but would continue to shoot police officers until he was dead.
After his release from Durham prison on 1 July, in the early hours of 3 July 2010, Moat allegedly arrived at Stobbart's parents' house in Birtley. According to Moat, he crouched under the open window of the living room for an hour and a half, listening to Stobbart and Brown mocking himAt 2:40 a.m., 29-year-old Chris Brown, Stobbart's new partner and a karate instructor, left the house to confront Moat but was shot at close range with a shotgun, and killed.Moat was reported to have then fired through the living room window, striking Stobbart in the arm and abdomen, while her mother was on the phone to the police. Stobbart was taken to hospital to undergo a liver operation and was put under armed guard.
At 12:45 a.m. on 4 July, Police Constable David Rathband was shot while sitting in his patrol car on the roundabout of the A1 and A69 roads near Rathband was taken to Newcastle General Hospital in a critical condition after suffering injuries to his head and upper body.The Guardian reported that Moat had called police 12 minutes before shooting PC Rathband to taunt them and tell them what he was about to do, and again some 50 minutes after the shooting, during which he showed little remorse and complained the police are "not taking me seriously enough".
On 4 July at 2 p.m., at a press conference, police addressed comments directly to Moat, saying they were taking him seriously and that Brown had no connection to the police force, and urging him to hand himself in for the sake of his three children.
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