The Hunt For Raoul Moat: The Case That Shocked The Nation | This Morning

It's been over a decade since that terrifying week and to tell us what it was like, we were joined by Now a crime expert David Wilson now David, you were actually there in 2010, remember? Can you tell us about what he was like? Then yes. Obviously I'm a criminologist. I write about men who commit violent crimes sometimes to commit murder and of course

this

was a huge

case

and it came on the heels of a mass shooting in Cumbria the previous month so I had covered that

case

. I went up and did a bit of research and then thought, "Okay, let's go to Rothbury." Everyone in the press was describing Rothbury as if he was surrounded by a ring of steel and I thought, as he drove towards Rothbury.

Oh, they'll stop me, they'll search me in the car they'll ask me what I'm doing, uh, why am I here? None of that at all. I literally rocked the Rothbury part and Khan started walking up and down the street talking to people about how they felt about

this

police presence on their streets and, of course, there was an immediate disconnect between how they were was reporting and what it was really like, the fear across the country because you don't know where you're going, that this guy just wandering around is going to continue what he had just done, I mean, everyone felt like it didn't go well for them and you're right too. , Craig, because he initially seemed to be targeting the police, he had a particular vendetta against the police and we saw some footage there, poor PC David.

Rathband, who was blinded when Moat shot him and then took his own life, Moat blamed the police, but due to the way things were reported in broadcast and print media mode, he started to get angry and said that He called the police and said if I read anything in the newspapers that is wrong or that I don't like. I'll start targeting members of the public, so you're absolutely right. Suddenly the fear that the target is the police and that it could be anyone who was shot really heightened worrying about what was going on in his headspace in what must have been, I'll never understand in my life, I mean. , what was his character as David, well, the first thing we have to remember, you know, Craig is a well-known rugby commentator.

This is a physically large man, he is six foot three, 17 and a half stone, he is a bodybuilder, he is a goalkeeper, he is a tree trimmer, this is a man who is prepared to use his physical size as a commodity and also his propensity for Violence as a commodity. As a goalie you know you have to be smart with yourself, you have to be able to control those situations, but Ally, everything I've been describing about his physicality, is someone who was a paranoid narcissist, Josie. This is someone who liked to control the narrative about what was being discussed.

This is someone who likes to control how he would perform masculinity with his partners, how he would perform masculinity with his friends, how he would perform masculinity even with his children and his only one. The reason he was in jail before the shooting before this man

hunt

took place was because he had assaulted one of his own children. How old was he? He was about 30 years old and what would he say: "Oh, the boy, the boy." The child was a girl, the child was nine years old, and she had been in prison just before for attacking a nine-year-old child, so this is one of the very interesting things, Samantha Stobart, who is one of the main people. who will be injured as a result of Moat's crimes had been trying to break off their relationship.

She had repeatedly said that I want to stop this relationship. They had a son together. I found someone new, Christopher Brown, who is going to be killed by Moat. No, she had. He went to the prison during the prison and explained all that to Moat and wrote to Moat and the prison was aware that Moat had started threatening Samantha and they passed the security intelligence from the prison to the police and that security intelligence was not. I didn't act because it was a Friday night when he was released and the shootings took place on Saturday and Sunday and then of course on Monday the police have access to security information so there are red flags everywhere and I look at everything, it's a It's a little bit easier when you do a retrospective piece like this drama, to watch them and see what you do differently, but obviously there are a lot of learnings from this and a lot of invisible road flags, oh, we're talking about someone who abuses of domestic violence. who is using coercive control, someone who wanted to maintain a narrative about who he was and why he behaved the way he did, he was sort of, if you'll pardon the phrase, he was sort of an analogue of Andrew Tate in a pre-network generation. social.

By writing notes, he called the police and had a 49-page file justifying his behavior, so even though he shot and killed Christopher Brown, even though he shot his then partner Samantha Stobart and killed David Rathband, who would take his. In his life he uses what criminologists would call neutralization techniques. He tries to justify what he is doing. For example, he says that he shoots Samantha Stobart because, um, she would receive compensation. He shoots her in the stomach. He says she would stop him from wearing a bikini. You know, these are neutralization techniques. He shoots David Rathband because he says, "Oh, he was probably just going to fine a single mother who didn't pay her road tax license." He is constantly trying to manipulate our understanding of what that is. he's doing it, he was on the run for a week involving 160 armed police officers, ten percent Josie, that's 10 of all the armed officers in the country, so how did they catch him in the end?

Well, he obviously knew well the area that he

hunt

ed, fished. and therefore he was also receiving help from other people in Newcastle's organized crime underworld who would subsequently be arrested after he was caught, the police surrounded him and I believe he was attempting suicide by police, now the police surround him. or he goes around him and they used a new device in the hope of stopping him from taking his life, that device they used unfortunately didn't work and then Moat shot himself and Northumbria Police referred to independent police complaints. Authority on how they had handled it but that's how they caught it and of course you know there was a mention of Paul gas going there but it was actually Ray Mears the raymirs tracker who helped the police in terms of searching Where Could I Have Been Hiding Gascoigne is a noise from Gascoigne that diverts our attention from what really happened, so it won't appear in the drama.

Gas, no it won't and I'm so glad I watched the first episode of the drama. and he is not in the drama itself, he concentrates completely on the stories of the victims and that for me is a really good thing, it is an incredible story, it is a horrible story, it is a terribly sad story and people are still mourning for the loss of their loved ones. It's really terrible, but it has to be said, yes, because it can't happen again. Absolutely the power of this right and the other thing we shouldn't do, what happened at that time, is turn Moat into some kind of heroic figure.

There were groups on Facebook that we were celebrating what he was doing and that's why, in a sense, it's this horrible preview of the multiple mass murderers that would come in the following decades. Thank you David, thank you and you can see it at 9 p.m. m. this Sunday, um.