After weeks of adverts and teasers, on Sunday night ITV will launch its drama about late murderer Raoul Moat, who sparked a massive man hunt in the summer of 2010, before killing himself with a gun shot.
Former bouncer Moat made headlines after, just days after being released from Durham prison, he headed to the home of ex girlfriend Samantha Stobbart in Birtley and shot her and her new boyfriend Christopher Brown, who died as a result of his injuries. On his way out of Newcastle, Moat fired at PC David Rathband who was on duty on a roundabout on the outskirts of the city, blinding him and leaving him seriously injured in hospital.
Former partner Samantha was also in hospital under police guard as Moat went into hiding, heading north to the peaceful Northumberland town of Rothbury. The idyllic location soon became the prime focus of the police manhunt and a media frenzy as the net closed in on Moat. The killer also made threats to kill the public in a voice recording which heard him say: "The next lie I see in the paper I will kill an innocent of the public. For every lie I see in that paper, any paper I will kill an innocent member of the public."
