After the trailer for the three part series received its premiere on Sunday night, ITV have now revealed when The Hunt for Raoul Moat will start, with the true crime drama set to dominate the broadcaster's primetime schedule for three nights in a row.
It was back in spring of last year that it was announced that ITV, together with World Productions, the company behind smash hit dramas like Line of Duty, Bodyguard and Vigil, would be bringing the event of summer 2010 back into the spotlight, with Bodyguard and The Musketeers star Matt Stokoe in the title role of gunman Moat, who killed Christopher Brown, the new boyfriend of his ex Samantha Stobbart and shot and blinded PC David Rathband, who took his own life a few years later.
Moat's crimes, which he committed less than 48 hours after being released from prison, led to a large scale man hunt to find him and, after he fled to Northumberland, the week long search came to as fraught end when, after a stand-off police, Moat shot himself and died from his injuries.
