Raoul Moat

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Vanessa Howard. Raoul Moat

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

FREEDOM

1973

IT BEGINS

1977

CONTROL

1986

ESCALATION

1998

MANHUNT

2003

ESCAPE

2005

CLOSING THE NET

2007

BETTER OFF DEAD

2009

NO WAY OUT

2010

AFTERMATH

Copyright

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CHAPTER ONE

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He could not get Sam and his daughter out of his mind. How could Sam have done this to him? After all he had done, she knew that he was in prison because he was making a stand against being falsely accused. He’d have to call her and sort things out. Two days before his release, he managed to track her down and talk to her on her mobile. She was blunt and told him that it was over between them and what was more, for the first time she had found someone that she really liked. Sam asked him to please respect her decision to move on and to leave her alone.

The call had taken but two minutes but the impact on Moat was immediate. He cracked, telling anyone who would listen to him that he had lost everything. To other inmates and the prison officers who had observed him talking on the phone, this was a departure from the persona he had presented since he first walked into Durham. He had lost weight whilst inside; perhaps with limited access to the gym and protein shakes that maintained mass this was to be expected, but possibly something else was plaguing him. That night, Moat couldn’t sleep and he began to tell all who would listen that everything that had mattered to him had been taken away.

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