The latest episode of ITV’s The Hunt for Raoul Moat has left viewers shocked after it featured drunken anti-police chants.
The controversial four-part series documents Moat’s seven-day murder spree in July 2010, during which he evaded police for days after murdering 29-year-old Christopher Brown and seriously wounding his ex-partner Samantha Stobbart and PC David Rathband.
Rathband died by suicide 20 months after losing his sight during the attack.
The second episode of the ITV crime drama, which aired for the first time on Sunday and climaxed on Wednesday, featured scenes set in a Newcastle pub, with revelers ‘worshiping heroes’ of Moat’s crimes, and his constant threats during the deadlock to kill. police officers.
Former Detective Chief Inspector Neil Adamson, played by Lee Ingleby, is seen having a pint after a difficult day of press conferences as the manhunt continues.
A scene in the final episode of the ITV series The Hunt for Raoul Moat shows former Detective Chief Inspector Neil Adamson, played by Lee Ingleby, in a Newcastle pub where chants can be heard in support of Raoul Moat’s war against the Police.
However, he soon abandons his drink when he realizes that a rousing chant has begun at the bar in support of Moat.
The revelers are shown raising their arms and their glasses and chanting ‘Raoul Moat, he’s our buddy, he’s our buddy, he’s our buddy, he kills cops’.
Viewers watching the series at home found the depiction of Moat’s cult status as a “hero” difficult to watch.
On Twitter, @Queenie_2312 wrote, “I am literally shocked that people praised Raoul Moat in this way and sang songs to glorify him by killing cops! Absolute madness and so disgusting. I hope those people are ashamed #TheHuntforRaoulMoat.”
@ErinWhittingham added: “It’s just gross.”
In the shocking scene, revelers are heard repeatedly chanting ‘Raoul Moat, he’s our buddy, he’s our buddy, he’s our buddy, he kills cops’.
Northumbria’s ex-head of detectives is seen slumped in his chair at the chants – before leaving the pub
The scenes documenting support for Moat angered many viewers, saying that those who praised Moat for his 2010 crime spree should be ashamed.
@FreemanKim7 wrote: ‘Sick society we live in. Just disgusting to glorify this vile man.’
In real life, the detective who led the police manhunt for the insane gun beat down people who ‘adored’ Moat ahead of the ITV drama about the case being broadcast.
Ex-head of Northumbria CID Adamson said the gunman was a ‘controlling and deranged misogynist bully’ and addressed the support he received from some 30,000 people who liked a Facebook page called ‘RIP Raoul Moat You Legend’ found.
He added: ‘The vast majority of the public was on our side and the local community was fantastic.
Former Detective Neil Adamson, the ex-head of Northumbria CID, says the series should have focused on the victims and not the shotgun-wielding killer
Notorious gunman Raoul Moat, who died in 2010 after a shooting
“The hero worship was absolutely bizarre, because the series shows how controlling and deranged he was, a misogynistic bully. Samantha was 16 when 31-year-old Moat met her.
“He dominated her and had to know everything about her. How can anyone be in awe of such a person?’
Adamson held long conversations about his experiences with actor Lee Ingleby prior to filming.
He told radio times that, while not critical of the series, he questioned the decision to focus on Moat rather than his “poor individual victims.”
The former police chief, who retired seven years ago, said: ‘I flew to London a few times during the investigation to see Christopher’s mother and she was incredibly dignified. I will never forget visiting David in the hospital, his determination to recover and move on.
“But I always thought it would be dramatized because it was an exceptional event – the largest manhunt in police history, for a full week, involving the entire country.”
Moat launched his terrifying campaign of violence on July 3, 2010, following his release from an 18-week prison sentence for assault two days earlier.
Matt Stokoe (pictured), plays the crazed gun killer in The Hunt for Raoul Moat
He arrived at the home of his ex-girlfriend Samantha Stobbart’s mother with a sawed-off shotgun after she claimed she had engaged in an affair with a police officer in an attempt to keep him away.
But this fueled his anger and hatred of the law, which led to Moat blaming the police for breaking up his life.
Moat then killed her new boyfriend, karate instructor Mr Brown, outside before shooting his ex-girlfriend in the stomach through a window and fleeing the property in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear.
He had waited an hour for his moment to strike and texted his accomplice Karl Ness who was parked nearby.
But Ness fled, leaving Moat behind.
He then declared ‘war’ on the police, shooting and blinding unarmed traffic cop PC David Rathband in a senseless attack. The officer later committed suicide after his injuries.
Moat’s attacks sparked a £1.4 million manhunt, involving 160 armed officers – with the town of Rothbury in Northumberland locked down.
The thug was eventually cornered by armed police before a six-hour standoff began – in which footballer Paul Gascoigne famously showed up at the scene of the police standoff with a fishing rod and chicken dinner to try and talk ‘Moaty’ round.
As negotiators tried to get Moat to put down his gun, the crazed killer shot himself in the head at 1:10 am on July 10. Moments before, he had been tasered by officers, who had tried to stop him from taking his own life.
After killing one person and wounding two others in a two-day shootout, Raoul Moat (pictured) managed to evade police for days by camping in the Northumbrian countryside
The seven-day search for the gunman in July 2010 – the largest manhunt in modern British history and headline news worldwide – is the focus of the ITV crime drama. Pictured Lee Ingleby as Neil Adams, Vineeta Rishi as Nisha Roberts and Sonya Cassidy as Diane Barnwell
