The TV survival expert, a drunken Gazza and the biggest (and most bizarre) manhunt in British history: Relive minute by minute the terrifying seven days Raoul Moat was on the run after a murderous gun rampage as ITV screens major new drama<\/h2>\n

The seven-day search for gunman in July 2010 was the and made headlines around the world.<\/p>\n

After killing one person and wounding two others in a two-day shooting spree, by camping out in the Northumbrian countryside.The pursuit has now been turned into a . Here is how the drama that gripped the nation unfolded…<\/p>\n

Thursday, July 1, 11.32am<\/span><\/p>\n

is released from Durham Prison having served an 18-week sentence for assaulting a child.<\/p>\n

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A three-part series called The Hunt for Raoul Moat will air on ITV later this month.Pictured: Matt Stokoe as Moat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Notorious gunman Raoul Moat, who died in 2010 following a shooting spree<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Chris Brown (left) stood in the way of Raoul Moat to protect his girlfriend from the killer.Mr Brown was gunned down and killed on July 3, 2010.\u00a0Actor Josef Davis (right), who stared 2019 Oscar-winner 1917 and more recently in the critically-acclaimed Star Wars mini series Andor on Disney+, is portraying Mr Brown. He is pictured in The Hunt For Raoul Moat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While in prison, his girlfriend Samantha Stobbart, 15 years his junior and mother to his daughter Chanel, told him that she had a new partner, a 29-year-old karate instructor named Chris Brown. Knowing Moat has a violent temper, Samantha tries to protect them by saying Brown is a policeman.<\/p>\n

Moat writes on Facebook: ‘Gonna lose my home and lost my Mrs of nearly 6 years to a copper.Like they haven’t f****d my life enough over the years. I’ve lost everything… watch and EVdEN EvE nAKLiYat<\/a> see what happens.’<\/p>\n

Saturday, July 3, 2010, 2.40am<\/span><\/p>\n

After a night out, Samantha and Chris are at a friend’s house in Birtley on the outskirts of Newcastle.Moat is crouched down outside an open window armed with a sawn-off shotgun listening to the conversations inside.<\/p>\n

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Police announce they are trying to trace Raoul Moat in connection with the shootings and EVDeN EVE NAKLiyAt<\/a> warn the public not to approach him as he might be dangerous.Samantha Stobbart is in a stable but serious condition at Gateshead’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital.<\/p>\n

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Chris Brown deliberately stepped in front of Raoul Moat to protect his girlfriend from the killer, she said at an inquest.Pictured is Josef Davies as Mr Brown and Sally Messham as Ms Stobbart<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Andy McAllister is watching TV news bulletins about the attack when there is a knock on the door.He’s shocked to see his friend Raoul Moat standing there. Moat calmly explains that he shot Samantha ‘so she would never be able to wear a bikini again’.<\/p>\n

McAllister, 45, tells him to turn himself in but Moat refuses and asks for a mobile phone so he can speak to the police.<\/p>\n

Sunday, July 4, 12.30am<\/span><\/p>\n

Moat is in his car, a black Lexus, with a second accomplice, Qhuram Awan. Moat dials 999 and says to the call handler that he didn’t mean to kill Samantha, adding: ‘You’ll get your chance to kill us, right, you’ll get your chance to kill us.’ The handler replies: ‘We don’t want to do that.’<\/p>\n

Moat replies: ‘Aye, yous wanted me to kill myself but I’m gonna give yous a chance cos I’m hunting for officers now, EvDEn eVE nAkLiyaT<\/a> right?’<\/p>\n

The call handler pleads: ‘No.Please don’t do that. We don’t want any more killing.’<\/p>\n

Moat hangs up then he and Awan drive off looking for a police officer to kill.<\/p>\n

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At a roundabout at East Denton, near Newcastle, motor patrol officer PC David Rathband, 42, is parked up on the pavement.It has been an incident-free night and he’s about to drive back to the station, when there is a metallic tap on the passenger window.<\/p>\n

Rathband looks up and instantly recognises Raoul Moat.<\/p>\n

In March 2009 he’d interviewed him under caution in the back of his police car for driving a van that was uninsured to carry scrap metal.Rathband had taken an instant dislike to him and now he was pointing a shotgun at him.<\/p>\n

Rathband recalled: ‘I looked into his eyes, a focus of ice-cold white, from which any warmth had long since passed. There was a white flash of light from the barrel and that was the last thing I saw.’<\/p>\n

Moat shoots him right between the eyes and he slumps into the footwell.Moat waits and watches to see if he’s dead. PC Rathband can hear his blood splashing on the dashboard and then the sound of the gun reloading, so instinctively puts his left arm up to protect himself.<\/p>\n

Moat fires once more but, still conscious, Rathband decides to play dead, knowing that if he moves his attacker will finish him off.Moat walks away.<\/p>\n

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