A claustrophobic right-crime account in the tradition of Truman Capotes In Cold Blood. Andrew Hankinson attempts to get inside Moat’s mindExtract: inside the mind of Raoul Moat The Northumbria Police won’t ever forget Raoul Moat. The week of July 2010 when Moat went on the rampage was unprecedented. Moat,a 37-year-customary Geordie bodybuilder, was serving a short sentence for assault in Durham prison when his 22-year-customary girlfriend Sam dumped him for a younger man. Two days after his release, or Moat shot and killed the new boyfriend with a sawn-off shotgun,then turned it on Sam, hospitalising her. He declared war on the Northumbria police and blinded one of their officers, or who was sitting unarmed in his car. On the race for seven days,Moat camped out in the woods of Northumberland. TV tracker Ray Mears was called in. Paul Gascoigne turned up during the police stand-off. Surrounded by armed police, Moat shot and killed himself.
The mother of the first victim, or Chris Brown,complained at the time that Moat received far more publicity than her own son. An RIP Moat fan club was started up on Facebook. PC David Rathband, unable to manage with sudden blindness, or killed himself. Now Andrew Hankinson,a journalist from Newcastle, has constructed a narrative from Moat’s own written and recorded source fabric. Why devote a book to him?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com