ITV gave a 'distressing' warning to millions of viewers seconds before the start of The Hunt for Raoul Moat on Sunday night.
It was at the start of July 2010 that Moat, just days after his release from Durham prison and being led to believe by ex Samantha Stobbart that her new boyfriend Christopher Brown was a police officer, that Moat, 37, headed to Samantha's house in Birtley and shot dead Christopher, before also firing at Samantha, leaving her hospitalised with her injuries.
Moat then blinded PC David Rathband with a bullet, as the police officer sat in a patrol car on the outskirts of Newcastle, before heading to Northumberland, with the help of two accomplices. After nearly a week on the run and a huge police search operation, Moat faced off against police for a final time, in a tense stand-off in Rothbury, which ended when he turned his gun on himself.
