The chilling 999 call Raoul Moat made before rampage: ‘I am hunting officers now’

On July 3 2010, Raoul Moat shot and injured his ex-girlfriend, Samantha Stobbart, while killing her new partner, Chris Brown.

In the hours after that shocking attack, Moat, 37, would go on to shoot Police Constable David Rathban twice as he sat in his patrol car.

What followed Moat’s two-day shooting spree was an unprecedented police operation, with 160 armed officers scouring Northumbria to find the gunman before he could strike again.

Ultimately, their hunt came to an end on July 9 when Moat was cornered by officers close to the National Trust’s Cragside estate, and a six-hour standoff ensued.

Moat refused to surrender and would eventually turn the gun on himself, shooting himself in the head on July 10, bringing an end to the biggest manhunt in recent UK history.

Now, a Prime Video documentary, Raoul Moat: Inside the Mind of a Killer, seeks to explore how Moat’s actions continue to reverberate through families, communities, and public memory to this day.

To do so, the 90-minute documentary will draw on Moat’s letters, voice recordings, along with archival footage and interviews with those affected to examine this shocking chapter in British history.

In an exclusive clip from the documentary shared with Metro, Moat can be heard warning officers about his plans to ‘hunt officers’ after shooting Stobbart and Brown.

‘Hello there, this is the Gunman from Birtley last night,’ he tells the 999 operator. ‘My name is Raoul Moat.’

Moat goes on to explain how he shot Brown because he was under the mistaken belief that Brown was a police officer who was having an affair with Stobbart ‘behind his back.’

‘You’ve hassled me for so many years,’ he continues. ‘If yous come anywhere near me and I’ll kill yous. I’m coming to get yous.

‘I’m not on the run. I am coming to get you because I am hunting for officers now.’

The clip is just the first of several phone calls Moat made during the manhunt, where he threatened to kill any officer who attempted to stop him.

The filmmakers hope that by investigating the forces that shaped Raoul Moat, we can learn why people commit unthinkable acts.

While the Moat manhunt only lasted a week or so, it continued to have impacts long after his death.

Police Constable Rathban survived the shooting but was permanently blinded.

He would eventually take his own life in 2012, with coroners at the time finding he couldn’t cope with a dissolving marriage and his new disability.

Raoul Moat: Inside the Mind of a Killer is available on Prime Video UK & IE from October 12.

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