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This thread is a classic. Is this the first cop Moat shot? The one which forced him to go on the run?
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[size=4] ‘David Rathband was no hero and was unkind to my son’: The shockingly insensitive views of Raoul Moat’s father on day of tragic PC’s funeral[/size]
[size=4]By Lyle Brennan[/size]
[size=4]PUBLISHED: 09:09 GMT, 17 March 2012 | UPDATED: 12:49 GMT, 17 March 2012[/size]
[size=4]On the eve of PC David Rathband’s funeral, Raoul Moat’s father said the policeman blinded in the gunman’s spree may have added to his son’s hatred of the police.[/size]
[size=4]Peter Blake told how, during a chance meeting between Moat and PC Rathband a year before the shootings of July 2010, the bouncer had been stopped and questioned about whether he was insured to carry scrap metal in his trailer.[/size]
[size=4]PC Rathband then impounded the vehicle, which Moat, who also worked as a panel beater and tree surgeon, used for his business.[/size]
[size=4]Mr Blake told the Sun: 'It served to confirm in Raoul’s troubled mind that the police were persecuting him.[/size]
[size=4]‘Perhaps if discretion had been used it might have demonstrated to Raoul all police weren’t out to get him.’[/size]
[size=4]The 70-year-old, who walked out on Moat at birth and never knew his son, also said PC Rathband, 44, was not a hero.[/size]
[size=4]The policeman was blinded when Moat, who was on the run after shooting his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, 22, and killing her boyfriend Chris Brown, 29, fired twice at his patrol car on a roundabout above the A1 in Newcastle upon Tyne.[/size]
[size=4]A full-scale manhunt ended when Moat, 37, was cornered in Rothbury, where he turned the gun on himself.[/size]
[size=4]PC Rathband, who struggled to cope with the loss of his sight and the collapse of his marriage to wife Kath, hanged himself at home in Blyth, Northumberland, on February 29.[/size]
[size=4]‘I don’t think he was a hero in the conventional sense, just a person in the wrong place at the wrong time and let down by his colleagues,’ Mr Blake said.[/size]
[size=4]Celebration of life: PC David Rathband’s coffin leaves St Nicholas Cathedral following a memorial service in Newcastle upon Tyne. He will be buried in Stafford today[/size]
[size=4]‘But he made a valiant attempt to put his life back together.’[/size]
[size=4]Today’s funeral will be held in PC Rathband’s home town of Stafford, where the policeman will be buried next to his niece Naomi Essery, who died mysteriously aged 18 in 2002.[/size]
[size=4]Earlier this week, more than 800 people attended a memorial service for PC Rathband.[/size]
[size=4]His twin brother Darren told mourners at Newcastle upon Tyne’s St Nicholas Cathedral: ‘I have lost half of me.’[/size]
[size=4]The city centre was brought to a standstill as a hearse carrying PC Rathband’s coffin and flowers spelling out his call sign, Tango 190, passed through the streets.[/size]
[size=4]Earlier that day Darren, a police officer in Australia, formally clocked his brother off from the shift he never finished.[/size]
[size=4]PC Rathband’s widow was not at the service but was expected to attend the funeral today - despite her estranged husband’s wishes.[/size]
[size=4]The blinded policeman’s brother had insisted that Kath Rathband, 42, did not come to the funeral.[/size]
[size=4]But PR guru Max Clifford, representing Mrs Rathband, told MailOnline she would be there in support of her grieving children Ashley, 19, and Mia, 13. [/size]
[size=4][size=4]The couple separated in August after 20 years of marriage amid allegations that PC Rathband had had an affair with 7/7 bombing survivor Lisa French.[/size][/size]
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I love this. The guy walked out on Moaty as a kid and never knew him yet he’s got an opinion on what upset him and blames the police for stopping him for a routine traffic offence. Being stopped by a traffic cop causes murder spree he reckons. What a tit. [/size]
The real scandal in that story is the attempt to rip the British taxpayer off by only clocking Raoul off his shift a good 20 months after he finished work.
Think it was the copper they clocked out m8…
It’s the copper who was clocked off Rocko. The self-righteousness of the old man is unreal, I’m just going out on a limb here but maybe if the old prick had been a father to his son instead of walking out on him none of this would have happened.
Sorry guys that’s what I meant.
[size=4]'I don’t think he was a hero in the conventional sense, just a person in the wrong place at the wrong time"[/size]
[size=4]Infairness to the man there is a fair bit of truth in that. Another example of the ever devaluing of the term hero by the media these days.[/size]
[size=4]A misfortunate lad alright, and an awful thing to try to live with but not a hero.[/size]
anybody been keeping up with the christopher dorner story? his numbers ard putting moaty to shame.
cops think they have found his body in a burnt out cabin.
Needs its own thread. Dont forget people, Gazza is in the States also 
Inquest into the death of moatys last victim ongoing at the moment
Seems slightly cuntish of his brothers and sisters to expect his ex wife who found out hed been shagging some toothless wan from 7/7 to keep an eye on him when they couldnt be arsed doing it themselves
[quote=“artfoley, post: 883189, member: 179”]Inquest into the death of moatys last victim ongoing at the moment
Seems slightly cuntish of his brothers and sisters to expect his ex wife who found out hed been shagging some toothless wan from 7/7 to keep an eye on him when they couldnt be arsed doing it themselves[/quote]
She was getting half his benefits most probably so they felt it was her obligation.
Poor old moaty, 4 years gone already
Moaty is water under the bridge
I will read it properly later and give it the attention it deserves but on a first glance
Moatieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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Jaysus I thought he had come back to life. 