After weeks of the preview adverts airing on primetime TV, ITV's The Hunt for Raoul Moat began on Sunday night, with millions tuning into what looks like being one of the most talked about dramas of this year.
The true crime mini series will revisit the events of summer 2010 when Moat, having just been released from prison, headed to Birtley and shot dead Christopher Brown, the new boyfriend of ex Samantha Stobbart, with Samantha hospitalised after also being shot by Moat.
As he headed out of Newcastle, Moat then fired at and blinded PC David Rathband, as he sat in a patrol car on the outskirts of the city, before the killer, aided by two accomplices, escaped to Northumberland, where he evaded detection for a number of days, before being involved in a tense final stand-off with police, which ended when he shot himself in the head, dying from his injuries.
