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[poliphilo]

Raoul Moat died- and not in the end with any great dignity. They tasered him- and the gun went off. Whether those two events are sequentially linked will be for an enquiry to find out. There was a very long stand-off, with cameras present, during which one of the tazer guys was pictured pulling comically fierce faces and the footballer Paul Gascoigne- another sad sack hard man- turned up drunk with an offer of chicken sandwiches.

If they make that movie- and I'm sure they will- it won't exactly be the ass-kicking action fantasy Moat seems to have thought he was starring in.

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[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I was only thinking today (in response to accusations that the police hastened or caused Moat's death) that all this might have turned out differently if it hadn't followed so closely on the Cumbrian shootings.

Thankfully, Moat didn't turn out to be a copy-cat random killer, but the police weren't to know that (something the media conveniently forget because they're writing with the benefit of hindsight).

Growing up in the north of England and having lived in Wales for so long, I know only too well how difficult it is to cover a large area of wild country. It didn't surprise me at all that it took so long to track him down.