Breaking News: Cornered Moat 'Holding A Gun To His Head'

[IScreamSundays]

Source: Sky News

Rob Cole, Sky News Online
Police are in a confrontation with wanted fugitive Raoul Moat and he is holding a gun to his head, Sky's crime correspondent Martin Brunt says.
"A man matching Moat's description is on the riverbank and police marksmen are negotiating with him," said Brunt.
"Police are in confrontation with the suspect and I am told he is holding a gun to his head."
A police tweet confirmed: "A man who fits the description of Raoul Thomas Moat located in the riverbank area in the vicinity of Rothbury. Police currently negotiating."
Sky News correspondent James Matthews, close to the scene, said he could hear police negotiators talking to the suspect and addressing him as "Raoul".

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Developments on Sky Player at link

Read more: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Police-In-Confrontation-With-Raoul-Moat-And-He-Is-Holding-A-Gun-To-His-Head/Article/201007215662422?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15662422_Police_In_Confrontation_With_Raoul_Moat_And_He_Is_Holding

[meegbear]

1. Huh? Wha?

[slackmaster]

3. Moat is a fugitive who is suspected of murdering three people last weekend

:hi:

[meegbear]

4. Thank you ...

with the holiday weekend, I was too drunk to watch the news. :hi:

[slackmaster]

2. SOMEBODY HELP THAT POOR MAN!

[pinboy3niner]

5. GMTA, LOL! "Bart: [low voice] Hold it! Next man makes a move, the gets it!

:rofl:

[mikeytherat]

6. Shush! That's a sure way to get him killed!

mikey_the_rat

[rocktivity]

7. What--he's willing to not be taken alive?

Hands up who DIDN'T see this coming!

:hi:
rocktivity

[MineralMan]

8. I don't know, but I'm not sure local stories from the UK

really fit the Late Breaking News category. Especially if you don't give us a clue about why we should be especially interested in the story.

[IScreamSundays]

9. It has become an international story

But if you think it needs to be moved you can always alert.

[enlightenment]

11. A lot of people are aware of it and interested.

it may not be particularly interesting from the perspective of the US gun-culture, where a raging, steroid fueled loonie with a vendetta and a gun can't make the back page of the paper until he or she slaughters at least a dozen, but it is pretty major goings-on in the UK. It also points to some interesting comparisons in national attitudes.

It also seems to be exposing a wee bit of 'who cares, it ain't amurika' here and there . . .

If you're not interested, why bother reading it and commenting?

[Turborama]

19. He's not just got any old vendetta, it's a vendetta against the police

An armed man who's shot 3 (including one policeman) running around the countryside of (unarmed) England for a week looking for cops to kill and who is now surrounded by 250 armed police is quite big news, wherever you come from.

Currently, I don't live in either the UK or the US and I find this story interesting.

Maybe there should be two forums called Late Breaking American News and Late Breaking International News?

Wait... hang on... that sort of news divide is what CNN are doing with CNN America & CNN International and it only serves to assist in keeping the American populous ignorant of what else is happening around the world.

[dipsydoodle]

12. I know what you mean.

Ask the average person here about BP in the Gulf and they don't know what you're talking about. Its your Gulf : not theirs.

Now the match betwen Spain and Holland on Sunday is a totally different matter.

[DeSwiss]

10. I can't wait to see.....

...what http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RRmE0_n0K4">Charlie Brooker and Screenwipe does with this one.....

K&R

[ikri]

14. Brooker's doing updates via twitter

Charlie Brooker's Twitter Feed

The whole thing is quite surreal, he's been surrounded by police for 4 hours, the media are interviewing pretty much anyone in the area now, we've had interviews done via cell phones with someone trapped in a nearby house and now former footballer and current lunatic Paul Gascoigne has turned up to give Moat some chicken.

The police are getting pretty good at gurning for the camera though

[Turborama]

18. Classic quote in Guardian article about Gascoigne turning up with chicken & beer

Paul Gascoigne offers support to 'good friend' Raoul Moat

Former England footballer, 43, arrives in Rothbury as armed police are locked in a stand-off with Raoul Moat

=snip=

Talking to Metro Radio, the 43-year-old appeared to suggest he had brought Moat, 37, a "can of lager, some chicken, a mobile phone and something to keep warm".

Gascoigne added: "He is willing to give in now. I just want to give him some therapy and say 'come on Moaty, it's Gazza'.

"He is all right – simple as that – and I am willing to help him. I have come all the way from Newcastle to Rothbury to find him, have a chat with him."

=snip=

Gascoigne's agent, Kenny Shepherd, said: "He's doing what? I am sitting having an evening meal in Majorca. I'm speechless."

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/09/paul-gascoigne-raoul-moat

[DeSwiss]

23. Thanks for the update!!!

[Turborama]

25. Looks like the Torygraph have decided to use your screenshot...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7882867/Raoul-Moat-treated-for-gun-shot-wound-as-six-hour-stand-off-ends.html

[bbernardini]

13. Is there any way to watch Sky Player in the US? nt

[Turborama]

17. You could try pasting the link into hidemyass.com

www.hidemyass.com

I'm giving it a try now but my internet connection is playing up. I'd be interested to hear if you have any luck...

[Turborama]

15. Former England football star Paul Gascoigne is at the police cordon making a ruckus

Trending on Twitter: http://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+Gascoigne&num=50&hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&prmd=nuivo&tbs=rltm:1&tbo=u&ei=Lpc3TODyJs6HkQWXmqSaAw&sa=X&oi=realtime_result_group_more_results_link&ct=title&resnum=8&ved=0CEwQ5QUwBw

Here's an article about it in a local paper: http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/8265422.Raoul_Moat_still_talking___bizarre_intervention_by__Gazza_/

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. If only his head had a gun...........

[SunnySong]

20. You know I have never seen a moat with corners...

[IScreamSundays]

21. I think that Moat was shot by a sniper.

Carole@Sky: James Matthews indicating stand-off between Moat and police is over.

see link in OP

[Turborama]

24. It's just been reported he shot himself

No link yet.

[IScreamSundays]

26. You are right.

DEAD. Self-inflicted gunshot wound.

[rocktivity]

27. Hooray for me.

This guy was a Dick Wolf script just asking to happen.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[B Whale]

28. Nope. Now believed he was tasared twice by

cops and gun went off, as he was electrocuted.

not to bright to electrocute someone with a gun to their head i don't think...

[Turborama]

29. Yeah, I just read that in this Guardian article

Totally unconscionable, if true: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/10/raoul-moat-taser-investigation-standoff

ETA this interesting article from The Independent I just read, too: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-strange-life-and-death-of-raoul-moat-2023987.html

[Nihil]

30. The guy was desperate for "suicide by cop" but failed and only achieved "suicide"

Remind me again why we should be sympathetic?

[B Whale]

31. Don't remember anyone asking anyone to be sympathetic, but

i would suggest it is because he is another human being!

i am sympathetic towards his victims but also to him. I think the whole thing is a tragedy, his life spiralled out of his control and he lost everything. I think people can sympathise with such a tragic figure without condoning what he did.

Also, the suicide by cop take on it i don;t think i agree with. He was talking with the police for 7 hours prior to them tasaring him. I think its a police fuck up!

[Dulcinea]

32. Sounds like that to me.

He was angry at the world, wanted to die, but didn't have the nerve just to take himself out. So he killed one person, wounded 2 more, & ended up dead. Whio didn't see that coming?

[Po_d Mainiac]

22. The last guy that killed 3 people up heyuh was a GOP campaign worker

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=156x7222

Our own little version of Larry Craig?? Only the defense attorney will know for sure