Relatives claim police failed to pass on information that Moat had threatened to ‘hunt’ police officers before he shot David Rathband in July 2010The brother and sister of a policeman shot and blinded by Raoul Moat absorb said he could absorb escaped injury if the Northumbria force had passed on a warning that the gunman was on the rampage.
PC David Rathband was shot twice in the face as he sat in his stationary car on a prominent junction above the A1 in Newcastle in July 2010. He was blinded and left in fixed pain with no sense of smell or taste, and killed himself in February 2012 aged 44.
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Source: theguardian.com