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The mother of ‘s oldest child fears the upcoming drama will only ‘glorify his crimes’.
Caroline Dodd, 43, said the steroid guzzling maniac would have relished the spotlight falling on his evil crimes.
His reign of terror will be shown in any ITV drama that starts tonight.
Mrs Dodd reveals she and daughter Katelaine Fitzpatrick, 24, was taken into hiding while the crazed bodybuilder was on his rampage.
She said: ‘This series will throw Raoul Moat back into the limelight and glorify his crime.
Caroline Dodd, 43, said the steroid guzzling maniac would have relished the spotlight today
Moat became Britain’s most wanted fugitive after he went on the run for seven days before taking his own life in a stand-off with armed police in July 2010
‘He would have loved it.He doesn’t deserve that, or the admiration that comes with it.
‘He was referred to as a ‘hero’ at the time and this will bring that back.’
Moat became Britain’s most wanted fugitive after he went on the run for seven days before taking his own life in a stand-off with armed police in July 2010.
He had murdered Christopher Brown, 29, who was dating Moat’s ex-partner Samantha Stobbart who he also shot and wounded in the street in Gateshead, eVdeN EvE NaKliYat Tyne and Wear.
His reign of terror will be shown in any ITV drama that starts tonight starring Matt Stokoe
Two of Moat’s three victims: Ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart (left), then 22, who was hospitalised in the shooting and police officer David Rathband (right), who was permanently blinded in the attack
The former nightclub bouncer then shot and blinded PC David Rathband.
Moat, 37, threatened to target more police officers after launching into his murderous rampage following his release from prison.
Pc Rathband tragically took his own life two years later aged 44.
Earlier this week former detective chief superintendent Neil Adamson, the ex-head of Northumbria CID, said the gunman was ‘a controlling and deranged misogynistic bully’.
Gazza’s arrival at the police stand-off holding a loaf of tiger bread, lager, chicken and a fishing rod after convincing himself Moat was his ‘brother’ during a cocaine bender was a bizarre twist in the July 2010 Northumberland manhunt
He condemned the support he received from some 30,000 people who liked a Facebook page named ‘RIP Raoul Moat You Legend’.
Mrs Dodd added to the Sun: ‘He should never be seen as a role model.He was a narcissist and a bully.
‘He has always been violent, scary and aggressive. He was abusive to me and many other partners.’
The TV survival expert, a drunken Gazza and the biggest (and most bizarre) manhunt in British history: Relive minute by minute the terrifying seven days Raoul Moat was on the run after a murderous gun rampage as ITV screens major new drama
The seven-day search for gunman in July 2010 was the and made headlines around the world.
After killing one person and wounding two others in a two-day shooting spree, by camping out in the Northumbrian countryside.The pursuit has now been turned into a . Here is how the drama that gripped the nation unfolded…
Thursday, July 1, 11.32am
is released from Durham Prison having served an 18-week sentence for assaulting a child.
A three-part series called The Hunt for Raoul Moat will air on ITV later this month.Pictured: Matt Stokoe as Moat
Notorious gunman Raoul Moat, who died in 2010 following a shooting spree
Chris Brown (left) stood in the way of Raoul Moat to protect his girlfriend from the killer.Mr Brown was gunned down and killed on July 3, 2010. Actor Josef Davis (right), who stared 2019 Oscar-winner 1917 and more recently in the critically-acclaimed Star Wars mini series Andor on Disney+, is portraying Mr Brown. He is pictured in The Hunt For Raoul Moat
While in prison, his girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, 15 years his junior and mother to his daughter Chanel, told him that she had a new partner, a 29-year-old karate instructor named Chris Brown. Knowing Moat has a violent temper, Samantha tries to protect them by saying Brown is a policeman.
Moat writes on Facebook: ‘Gonna lose my home and lost my Mrs of nearly 6 years to a copper.Like they haven’t f****d my life enough over the years. I’ve lost everything… watch and see what happens.’
Saturday, July 3, 2010, 2.40am
After a night out, Samantha and Chris are at a friend’s house in Birtley on the outskirts of Newcastle.Moat is crouched down outside an open window armed with a sawn-off shotgun listening to the conversations inside.
His daughter Chanel is asleep upstairs.Samantha kisses Chris Brown goodbye as he leaves the house. Suddenly Moat appears and shoots Brown twice at close range, then reloads and fires a fatal shot to his head.
Samantha runs inside and Moat fires at her through a window, hitting her in the arm and stomach.He watches Samantha crawl out of the room then runs to his car where accomplice Karl Ness is waiting to make a getaway.
2.20pm
Police announce they are trying to trace Raoul Moat in connection with the shootings and warn the public not to approach him as he might be dangerous.Samantha Stobbart is in a stable but serious condition at Gateshead’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Chris Brown deliberately stepped in front of Raoul Moat to protect his girlfriend from the killer, she said at an inquest.Pictured is Josef Davies as Mr Brown and Sally Messham as Ms Stobbart
11.30pm
Andy McAllister is watching TV news bulletins about the attack when there is a knock on the door.He’s shocked to see his friend Raoul Moat standing there. Moat calmly explains that he shot Samantha ‘so she would never be able to wear a bikini again’.
McAllister, 45, tells him to turn himself in but Moat refuses and asks for a mobile phone so he can speak to the police.
Sunday, July 4, 12.30am
Moat is in his car, a black Lexus, with a second accomplice, Qhuram Awan. Moat dials 999 and says to the call handler that he didn’t mean to kill Samantha, adding: ‘You’ll get your chance to kill us, right, you’ll get your chance to kill us.’ The handler replies: ‘We don’t want to do that.’
Moat replies: ‘Aye, yous wanted me to kill myself but I’m gonna give yous a chance cos I’m hunting for officers now, right?’
The call handler pleads: ‘No.Please don’t do that. We don’t want any more killing.’
Moat hangs up then he and Awan drive off looking for a police officer to kill.
12.45am
At a roundabout at East Denton, near Newcastle, motor patrol officer PC David Rathband, 42, is parked up on the pavement.It has been an incident-free night and he’s about to drive back to the station, when there is a metallic tap on the passenger window.
Rathband looks up and instantly recognises Raoul Moat.
In March 2009 he’d interviewed him under caution in the back of his police car for driving a van that was uninsured to carry scrap metal.Rathband had taken an instant dislike to him and now he was pointing a shotgun at him.
Rathband recalled: ‘I looked into his eyes, a focus of ice-cold white, from which any warmth had long since passed. There was a white flash of light from the barrel and that was the last thing I saw.’
Moat shoots him right between the eyes and he slumps into the footwell.Moat waits and watches to see if he’s dead. PC Rathband can hear his blood splashing on the dashboard and then the sound of the gun reloading, so instinctively puts his left arm up to protect himself.
Moat fires once more but, still conscious, Rathband decides to play dead, knowing that if he moves his attacker will finish him off.Moat walks away.
Family album: Moat as a happy three- and 13-year-old in pictures released by his family before he turned to murder as an adult
1.35am
Moat dials 999 again and says to the call handler that the police are not taking him seriously enough.
Meanwhile David Rathband has arrived at Newcastle General Hospital and doctors attempt to save his life.
A five-hour operation on Samantha Stobbart is about to begin.
10am
At a Press conference, Acting Chief Constable Sue Sim says: ‘Raoul Thomas Moat is a wanted man. He is very dangerous and shouldn’t be approached by a member of the public. If you liked this article and you would like to get more details concerning evDen EVE nAKliyaT kindly browse through the website. ‘
Samantha Stobbart (left) was gunned down by her ex-boyfriend in a horrifying attack which claimed the life of her lover Chris Brown. Actress Sally Messham (right) is portraying the 22-year-old trainee hairdresser in the new ITV drama.She is pictured in a publicity shot for The Hunt For Raoul Moat
Samantha Stobbart (pictured) was left critically injured after she was shot in the stomach by Moat and only survived because her arm had partially blocked the shot
Ms Stobbart had broken off her relationship with Moat while he was in prison. She started to date karate instructor Chris Brown – who was gunned down and killed on July 3, 2010, by Moat. Sally Messham is pictured portraying Ms Stobbart
Police search Moat’s house in Newcastle and find CCTV cameras that can pick up not only images but voices.Above the fireplace is a large picture of Moat topless. There are children’s toys in the garden.
Samantha Stobbart is given police protection in hospital.
Monday, July 5, 1.30am
Moat returns to the home of his friend Andy McAllister and hands him a 47-page letter which he calls his ‘murder statement’.He tells McAllister: ‘I will keep killing police until I am dead.’
In the letter, Moat says: ‘I’m a killer and a maniac, but I ain’t no coward. Those doctors better save [Sam] or I’ll hit the hospital. I still love her despite everything.’
He tells McAllister to give the police the letter.
10am
Acting Chief Constable Sim tells the Press Moat is armed but the threat to the public is not thought to be significant.’If you see him, do not approach him but call the police straight away.’
The police release a description of Moat’s Lexus. Firearms officers from Cumbria, Humberside, Cleveland, West and South Yorkshire join the hunt.
10.50am
Moat walks into a fish and chip shop in Seaton Delaval, ten miles from Newcastle, with a gun under his arm.He orders the owner Lemur Singh to hand over money from the till.
Singh said later: ‘When I saw the gun I was frightened and took a couple of steps back. Then he asked again, ‘Give us the money’, and I opened the till and took out the notes l and handed it over.It was about £100.’
The beginning of the stand-off as portrayed by ITV.Moat was finally caught by police on the evening of July 9, after a member of the public spotted him at the bottom of their road in Rothbury
It will be two days before the police conclude that the robber was definitely Moat.
5pm
Samantha Stobbart is no longer in a critical condition and makes an appeal to Moat: ‘Please give yourself up.
‘If you still loved me and our baby, you would not be doing this.When you came out of jail, I told you that I was seeing a police officer. I said this because I was frightened. I have not been seeing a police officer.’
Tuesday, July 6, 9am
In the small town of Rothbury, 30 miles north of Newcastle, a Mrs Wilson calls the police saying that the previous evening she saw a black Lexus parked on the east side of the town.
The police immediately advise residents to stay indoors.A spokesman says: ‘People will see armed officers on the streets. This is a precautionary measure to protect and reassure them.’
2pm
The search for Moat is now concentrated where the Lexus was found in an area of woodland known as the Cragside Estate.A nearby school is told by the police not to send children home until the area is secured.
In the House of Commons, Home Secretary Theresa May says she is in regular contact with Sue Sim and will continue liaising with the Northumberland EVDEN EVe NAkliYaT force.
The police arrest Moat’s accomplices Awan and Ness on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
Wednesday, evDEn eVE NAkliYAt July 7, 9am
A Rothbury family report seeing smoke in a field on the outskirts of the town.
The police find a tent and inside an eight-page letter addressed to Samantha in which Moat reasserts his belief that Chris Brown was a police officer.A TV news crew tramples over the site and many clues are lost.
A criminologist writing in this morning’s Daily Mail says: ‘Negotiation is a possibility, but there is also the likelihood that Moat is deliberately trying to engineer the scenario known in America as ‘suicide by cop’, whereby a gunman provokes a situation where the police have no alternative but to shoot him dead.’
10am
In an interview with a local paper, Samantha’s father Paul begs Moat to hand himself in: ‘Raoul, son, EvdEN EVE NAKLiyaT please this has to stop.It’s gone on far too long. What sort of memories are these that the kids will have of their father. We don’t want anyone else hurt, nee more son.’
Police offer a £10,000 reward for information which leads to Moat’s capture.
12.30pm
Prime Minister David Cameron tells the Commons: ‘I know the House and the whole country will be wishing the police well in their search for this individual so that we can put a stop to the horrendous spree that is taking place.’
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has sent ten armoured Land Rovers to assist Northumbria Police and 40 armed officers have joined them from the Metropolitan Police.An RAF Tornado jet is on standby if reconnaissance sorties are required. It has now become the largest manhunt in modern British history.
Thursday, July 8, 8am
Moat’s mother Josephine Healey has given an interview to a national newspaper in which she says: ‘I feel like he hasn’t been my son since he was 19 years old.
‘He now has a totally different character, attitude and manner.I don’t recognise him at all. If I was to make an appeal I would say he would be better dead.’
Detective Superintendent Neil Adamson (left, in 2010) led the manhunt for Raoul Moat. He will be played by Line of Duty star Lee Ingleby, 47.Ingleby is pictured (right) in character on ITV’s The Hunt For Raoul Moat
9am
The police find a makeshift campsite used by Moat and in it a dictaphone and three tapes containing a four-hour message.In a long, rambling justification for his actions is a new threat.
‘For each lie I see in the paper, any paper, I’m going to kill an innocent member of the public.’
11am
Survival expert and TV star Ray Mears is in a meeting with his publisher when his phone rings.It’s Chief Inspector Phil Thomas, a police search adviser who Ray has worked with before, asking for his help in tracking down Moat.
Ray promises to be on the scene tonight and asks for the media not to be told that he’s going to be involved.He doesn’t want the publicity, or for Moat to know he’s tracking him. There has been some reluctance among the police top brass about using an unarmed civilian for the search, until Northumbria Police’s Deputy Chief Constable Jim Campbell decided they needed him urgently.
1pm
Concerned by the threat recorded by Moat on the dictaphone, Sue Sim says he is now considered a danger to the public.
A letter is sent to news organisations by the police saying that ‘the rules have changed and Moat is getting angrier’ and they urge them not to report any more details about his private life.
CCTV images of Moat, with a distinctive Mohican-style haircut in a Newcastle shop on Friday, are released by police.
2pm
A ‘get well’ card for Samantha from Moat is delivered to Gateshead hospital.On the front is a cartoon monkey with a thermometer in its mouth and the caption: ‘You’re in hospital but luckily the doctors say you’ll be normal in no time! Well that’ll be a first.’
Moat had written at the bottom: ‘No joke intended.Get well soon. Raoul.’ Samantha said: ‘The card was sick. It scared me that he knew where I was. There was an armed guard outside my room, but I was terrified he’d come after me.’
Chief Constable Sue Sim oversaw the police operation to catch Raoul Moat.She is pictured at a press conference following the shooting of PC David Rathband. She is being portrayed by Peaky Blinders star Gemma Page (pictured right)
6.30pm
A public meeting is held in Rothbury as police urge people to be vigilant and they agree to station officers outside schools in the town to reassure locals.
11.30pm
Ray Mears has arrived in Rothbury and is taken to the police station. He’s stunned by the scale of the police hunt with searchlights ‘turning night into day’.
As Mears is given an update by police, he makes notes on the back of an envelope.
He is convinced that Moat is using the banks of the River Coquet that runs through the Cragside Estate to move around at night without a torch.Mears wrote later: ‘I was hungry to go head-to-head. This wasn’t Man vs. Wild, or even Man vs. Man; this was my world and Moat had come crashing into it, so the balance was uneven.’
Friday, July 9, 8am
Mears arrives at a car park on the edge of the Cragside Estate escorted by nine Met Police firearms officers and is wearing their black overalls, body armour, helmet and ballistic goggles.
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