Armed with a sawn-off shotgun, Raoul Moat arrived at a house where his ex-girlfriend Sam Stobbart was staying in the early hours of Saturday, July 3, 2010. Seven days later, after shooting three people, including Stobbart, and going on the run, the bodybuilder took his own life following a six-hour stand-off with police.
It marked the grisly end of one of the biggest manhunts in recent history. As a new ITV drama prepares to tell the story of the hunt for Moat, the M.E.N. looks back at his life and crimes - and his disturbing legacy.
"There have always been some who have hero-worshipped criminals whether it is Ned Kelly, Al Capone or Billy the Kid. There has always been a section of society who hate the police as the symbol of what they see as an unfair society or just because they get in the way of their criminal business."
