David Rathband: "I have to believe I took one for my colleagues."

If gunman Raoul Moat had not blasted Pc David Rathband he would "probably" have shot a colleague, a High Court judge has found.

In his judgment, Mr Justice Males referred to a passage from the late officer's book Tango 190 in which he wrote:

The judge quoted Pc Rathband's belief that Moat could have turned up at apolice station or shot another officer who wound his window down.