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    he is making the police look like fools.

    with their fondness for procedure, political correctness and politeness they have become a bit of a joke in the uk.

    the fact that a steroidal neanderthal has run rings around them for nearly a week makes them fair game for some abuse in the public eye, a bit like the england football team.


    if a member of the public were to find him and harm him in any way, he would also be arrested and hauled before the courts.

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    Best he don't come out with his hands in the air now, shitbag

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    Did fugitive gunman walk along High Street of manhunt town? Police probe new sightings of Raoul Moat

    • Moat spotted strolling through the centre of Rothbury last night
    • Police release new pictures of fugitive's woodland campsite
    • Worried parents demand armed police stand guard outside schools
    • Police recover all three mobile phones used by Moat
    • Two more people arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender
    • Officers cordon off National Trust country estate
    Police were today investigating a dramatic new sighting of fugitive gunman Raoul Moat - brazenly walking down the High Street of the Northumberland village at the centre of the police hunt.
    Details of the incredible sighting came just hours after temporary Chief Constable Sue Sim told a village meeting: 'I'm not saying he is going to be walking down the street with a gun.'
    The possible sighting of the fugitive was reported to the police by at least two people.

    The development - if confirmed as a positive sighting - would be hugely embarrassing to the police who have placed Rothbury on lockdown since Tuesday.
    It may also be interpreted as the gunman taunting police officers so soon after the chief constable's comment to village residents.
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    Under siege: Police stand guard at Dr Thomlinson Church of England Middle School in Rothbury. Police have received reports that Raoul Moat walked through the centre of the town last night



    High alert: An armed officer leaves a school in Rothbury. Worried parents requested police guard their children

    Armed police have been scouring the area for days in search of the elusive former bouncer who is believed to be armed with two shotguns and a wealth of ammunition.
    Police this afternoon closed Craigside House, a National Trust estate on the outskirts of Rothbury, as they continued their search.
    The town centre itself has seen a heavy police presence after senior officers said they believed the gunman was still in the area.
    Incredibly police received a report of a sighting of Raoul Moat walking through the town centre at around 10.45pm on Thursday night.


    Moat spotted strolling through the centre of Rothbury last night
    Police release new pictures of fugitive's woodland campsite
    Worried parents demand armed police stand guard outside schools
    Police recover all three mobile phones used by Moat
    Two more people arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender
    Officers cordon off National Trust country estate


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    Here's one of the idiots who have been arrested for helping him, this guy has been arrested on conspiracy to murder.

    From his facebook page.



    Favorite Quotations: all police informers must fuckin rot,,,, the horrible little kuntz





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    The Newcastle door scene ain't looking too good at the moment.

    Someone will sort it me thinks once this malarky calms down.

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    Looks like his about to blow his own head off Police have him cornered.

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    ^ Doubt it will hit his brain.

    Go Plod..

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    Quote Originally Posted by daveboy
    Looks like his about to blow his own head off Police have him cornered.
    Has he done a risk assesment and got a valid method statement?

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    "A man matching Moat's description is on the riverbank and police marksmen are negotiating with him," said Brunt.
    "Police are in confrontation with the suspect and I am told he is holding a gun to his head."
    A police tweet confirmed: "A man who fits the description of Raoul Thomas Moat located in the riverbank area in the vicinity of Rothbury. Police currently negotiating."
    Sky News correspondent James Matthews, close to the scene, said he could hear police negotiators talking to the suspect and addressing him as "Raoul".

    "There was a lot of shouting and ranting coming from Moat," he said.
    "Police were reassuring him and saying no one would hurt him.
    "'Raoul', the police officer said, 'There's no one behind you'."
    Matthews said he had heard phrases such as: "Put the gun down, no one is going go hurt you."
    He said a woman could be heard shouting but it was not immediately clear how she is involved.
    A witness called Paula said her mother could see Moat holding a gun to his head and said he was being watched by police snipers from nearby woods.
    Paula told Sky: "She said he's got a gun to his head and he's trying to move back round the corner. The police are talking to him all the time."
    She said the man was outside her mother's home on a riverbank in Rothbury. Her mother has been told not to leave her home.
    Retired taxi driver Dave Murray, 67, said Moat appeared to have been chased through the village and was heading east before being cornered.
    He said: "There is nowhere for him to go, the river is on one side and this road and all the police on the other."
    Mountain biker Ben Storey had been out cycling when he stumbled across the police operation.
    "There was about 10 armed officers and they all had their guns pointed at one man,' the 19-year-old builder said.
    "I couldn't see the guy but all the cops had their guns pointed at him. And you could tell he was right down at the river.
    "We got the news he had been caught so we came rushing down to see if we could see him."
    Another witness said Moat was lying on the floor with a gun pointing to his chin.
    Police have said that no one has yet been arrested as a result of the confrontation, contrary to earlier reports from a news agency.
    Moat, 37, is wanted over a double shooting that left his ex-girlfriend seriously wounded and her new boyfriend dead as well as the shooting of a police officer.
    Chief Superintendent Mark Dennett of Northumbria Police has warned residents to "stay inside for your own safety".
    "The belief has grown that there would be a bloody confrontation, with either Moat shooting himself or the police being forced to shoot him," said Brunt.
    Police were earlier investigating a possible sighting of Moat walking through the centre of Rothbury.
    Well, luckily I didn't have any tortoises on me at the time...

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    Apparently they have brought in Gazza !!!

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    Sky Reporter Metres From Moat Stand-Off

    Matthews crept to within metres of where Moat was lying on a riverbank.
    From his position he listened as negotiators tried to reassure the former nightclub bouncer.
    Hear is his account of what happened:


    Police negotiators try to persuade Moat to surrender

    For part of the negotiation process I was in earshot of what was going on.
    The police negotiator was nearer to me than Moat so I heard more of what he was saying than what Moat said.
    It was essentially a process of trying to build bridges. The negotiator was addressing him by his christian name in a Geordie accent and telling him there was no one behind him.
    That prompted shouts from Moat. He sounded like he did not believe what he was being told.
    At one stage the police were reassuring him and saying no one would hurt him.
    Raoul there's no one behind you," he said. "No one has hurt you yet and nobody is going to hurt you."
    It was a constant process of reassurance, as though Moat was hidden and the police were trying to coax him out.
    There were repeated reassurances, trying to build up trust.
    But I was behind Moat and having been given the assurance there was no one behind him and without hearing the approach of a heavily armed officer, I almost felt his breath on my cheek as he crawled behind Moat high on the riverbank.
    Using industrial language, he whispered his instructions to me and my cameraman that we should make our exit fairly sharply.

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    bbc report that gunfire was heard and an injured man been taken to hospital


    A man fitting the description of Raoul Moat was surrounded by police Police say a man fitting the description of fugitive Raoul Moat has been shot after a six-hour stand-off with armed officers.
    In a statement, Northumbria Police said "a shot or shots have been fired" and the injured man is now receiving treatment.
    No officers have been injured.
    Police had been negotiating with the man, who was earlier seen with a gun pointed at his own neck, close to a river in the town of Rothbury.
    BBC producer Claire Kendall said she heard two shots fired.
    An ambulance has been seen leaving the scene accompanied by two police cars. The convoy is heading in the direction of Newcastle.
    Police discovered the man at around 1900 BST on Friday. Expert negotiators were brought in to speak to him.
    Unconfirmed reports suggested a friend of Moat was also brought inside the police cordon.

    bbc news

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    Raoul Moat Dead After Shooting


    Raoul Moat has died after shooting himself following a stand-off with police in Rothbury, according to Sky sources.


    The 37-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at Newcastle General Hospital.


    He shot himself in the head around 1.10am after being surrounded by armed police.


    It followed a tense six-hour stand-off that had been sparked when he was spotted on the riverbank in Rothbury, Northumbria.


    An eyewitness said the tense siege came to a climax when police surrounded the former nightclub doorman and jumped on him.


    A single gunshot was heard before the stricken fugitive, who has evaded a frantic hunt for a week, was taken by ambulance to Newcastle General Hospital.

    On arrival he was seen being taken from the ambulance on a stretcher with a blanket covering his head.


    It is believed he was pronounced dead on arrival.


    Susan Ballantyne whose house overlooks the scene of the stand-off, said police had crowded around Moat and pounced.


    Moat's death brings to an end a huge manhunt involving police officers from 15 forces, Scotland Yard sharpshooters and armoured 4x4 cars.


    An RAF Tornado was also deplored to utilise wartime technology in a bid to find the gunman.

    Raoul Moat: Sky Sources Says He Is Dead After Shooting Himself Following Stand-Off With Police | UK News | Sky News

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    Raoul Moat taken to hospital as single gunshot brings end to standoff
    Fugitive had been in tense standoff with armed police for over six hours before shooting himself
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    A police car escorts an ambulance out of Rothbury in Northumberland after the standoff between Raoul Moat and the police ended. Photograph: Hugh Macknight/PA
    A tense, six-hour standoff between armed police and Raoul Moat, Britain's most wanted man, ended early this morning when the fugitive shot and injured himself.

    Having evaded capture for a week, Moat was surrounded in the Northumberland village of Rothbury as armed snipers trained their guns on him while he pointed a shotgun at his neck.

    At 1.10 this morning a single gunshot was heard at the scene of the standoff and police were reported to have surrounded Moat and jumped on him. In a statement, the police said "no shots were fired by police officers" and it "appears the suspect shot himself".

    An ambulance reportedly sped from the scene, taking the former nightclub bouncer, 37, to a Newcastle hospital.

    Moat was wanted over the shooting of his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, the fatal shooting of Chris Brown, Stobbart's new partner, and the shooting of PC David Rathband, early on Sunday.

    Just after 7pm yesterday Moat made a break for cover from his hiding place near Cragside, around 300 metres from Rothbury. One witness said they saw him being chased by armed officers on the eastern edge of the village.

    Another said they saw Moat being pursued across the front lawn of their home in the riverbank area of Rothbury at around 7.10pm, while other accounts described him walking along the bank of the River Coquet when two police officers approached him.

    Within moments Moat was said to have gone down flat on his stomach and put a sawn-off shotgun to his neck, his finger apparently on the trigger. In seconds he was surrounded by 10 marksmen.

    Trained police negotiators tried to form a dialogue with Moat, a 37-year-old former nightclub bouncer, who was in a highly agitated state, shouting at officers who ordered him to lie down on the ground.

    Marksmen trained their guns and stun guns on him, while snipers lay on the banks of the river and behind an armoured police vehicle. An RAF Tornado plane with infra-red equipment roared overhead.

    As daylight faded, police sent in food and water, to try to help build up a rapport and trust. It was reported that Moat's good friend Tony Laidler had arrived on the scene to try to assist with negotiations.

    As torrential rain poured on the scene, the deadlock was broken at just after 1am when a single shot was heard, followed by the sound of shouting.

    A police spokesman said: "We can confirm that a shot has been fired. It's believed that the suspect has a gunshot wound. No officers have been injured. The circumstances have yet to be established."

    Moat has remained at large for a week, allegedly aided by friends and associates. Six people have been arrested in connection with the investigation so far and two have already appeared before magistrates charged with conspiracy to commit murder and possession of a firearm.

    Hundreds of officers were involved in the search with 14 additional forces brought in, including 40 officers from the Metropolitan Police's C019 sniper unit and 20 armoured police cars shipped in from Northern Ireland.

    Throughout the inquiry, Northumbria police remained convinced Moat was in the area, despite cynicism as the search went on. Local sources believe Moat may have been sleeping rough in a storm drain that runs beneath the town.

    He was wearing a blue-grey hooded top, baseball cap, dark jeans and white trainers. Earlier yesterday police were investigating claims that Moat had been spotted walking down the high street in Rothbury on Thursday night at 11.45.

    The sighting came just three hours after Northumbria's temporary chief constable, Sue Sim, told hundreds of worried villagers at a public meeting: "I'm not saying he's going to be walking down the road with a gun."

    Yesterday evening there was a sense of panic as marksmen flooded into the village, which was cordoned off. Residents were told by officers to "go home and lock the door".

    Eyewitness Peter Abiston was watching Moat throughout: "There are about 20 armed officers lying down pointing weapons at him. "He looks very calm. It looks as though the police clearly have it under control."

    Witness Chris Robertson, said he thought he had seen Moat holding a gun to his neck. He said: "There was a man down by the river with what appeared to be a sawn-off shotgun pointing to his own neck. He was about 150 yards away. I wasn't sure it was Moat. Then the police came and pointed their rifles at him."

    Retired taxi driver Dave Murray, 67, said Moat appeared to have been chased through the village and was heading east before being cornered at the primary school tennis courts and bowling green.

    Armed police have been carrying out search operations in the small town since Tuesday, but it is extraordinary that Moat was able to remain at large for so long. Earlier yesterday, there was a collision involving two police cars as they rushed to the area. It is not clear if anyone was injured.

    In a surreal development, the former England and Newscastle footballer Paul Gascoigne turned up at the police cordon in an intoxicated state claiming to be a friend of Moat, and offering to give the fugitive assistance. Raoul Moat dead say police sources after single gunshot brings end to standoff | UK news | The Guardian

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    Gazza couldn't save him?

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    Quote Originally Posted by crippen
    It was reported that Moat's good friend Tony Laidler had arrived on the scene to try to assist with negotiations.


    Tony Laidler

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    In a surreal development, the former England and Newscastle footballer Paul Gascoigne turned up at the police cordon in an intoxicated state claiming to be a friend of Moat, and offering to give the fugitive assistance.
    Class.

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    English Class , where were the Muslim Clerics ?

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    "An RAF Tornado plane with infra-red equipment"

    WTF??

    No doubt they had to catch the guy but the effort involved is just unbelievable... well all in all a predictable end to a sad story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by English Noodles
    He will more than likely kill himself in my opinion.
    Quote Originally Posted by Overman
    I expect a shoot-out with the police is more likely, although his intention will be the same.
    In a statement, the police said "no shots were fired by police officers" and it "appears the suspect shot himself".

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    So he turns out to be another feckin' coward.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fuzzy Bob View Post
    So he turns out to be another feckin' coward.
    Quite considerate really, saved the already overburdened taxpayers a fortune in trial and incarceration costs.

    Mind you in the US, as a cop killer, he would have shot himself about 112 times.



    (Added: Why do they call it a six-hour stand-off when he spent most of it laying down?).

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    This is probably why the bloke topped himself:

    The footballer, who arrived with a can of lager, some chicken, a fishing rod and something to keep him warm, said he hoped the stand-off would end peacefully and referred to the gunman as "Moaty".
    He described the former nightclub bouncer, who is wanted for murder, as "a good lad", adding: " I just want to give him some therapy and say come on Moaty, its Gazza.
    "He is alright - simply as that and I am willing to help him. I have come all the way from Newcastle to Rothbury to find him, have a chat with him.
    "I guarantee, Moaty, he won't shoot me. I am good friends with him. I knew him years ago when he was a bouncer in Newcastle."

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    What a missed opportunity. They could have shot Gazza and let Moat go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gerbil View Post
    What a missed opportunity. They could have shot Gazza and let Moat go.

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