Matt Stokoe has admitted he was left 'emotionally drained' by playing Raoul Moat in ITV's new drama about the killer, ahead of its launch on Sunday night.
Having appeared in BBC dramas Bodyguard and The Musketeers, County Durham actor Matt was seen on set in the role of Moat, as filming began on The Hunt for Raoul Moat last year. Matt will play the late criminal, who shot dead his ex Samantha Stobbart's new boyfriend Christopher Brown and left her in hospital, after heading to Birley, just days after his release from prison in 2010.
Moat went onto shoot and blind PC David Rathband, as he sat in his patrol car on a roundabout on the outskirts of Newcastle, before heading up to Northumberland and then being involved in a tense final stand-off with police on a Rothbury riverbank, which ended when he shot himself.
