Neither did I, but it got a good write-up in the D Tel.
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"British television is very good at dramatisations of real crimes, from See No Evil to The Moorside to The Salisbury Poisonings. When they are broadcast, these series are often accompanied by controversy, however, with the argument being what was the point in making them, given the inevitable attendant pain for the victims and their families.
Well, in the case of ITV1’s three-part series The Hunt for Raoul Moat, the point in dramatising Britain’s biggest manhunt could scarcely be clearer: Moat’s victims – Christopher Brown, shot dead in cold blood; Samantha Stobbart, his former partner who was also shot and maimed, and PC David Rathband, shot for being a police officer and nothing else – are here front and centre throughout.
By foregrounding them, the series diminishes Moat, which is another very good reason for its existence: 30,000 people subscribed to the “RIP Raoul Moat you legend” Facebook page at the time, deluded into thinking a sociopath was some kind of wronged avenger.
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