Manhunt: The Raoul Moat Story airs tonight on ITV
A new documentary detailing how Northumbria Police tracked down a killer on the run, will air on the 10th anniversary of the day "Britain's biggest manhunt" came to an end.
It was a story that gripped the nation. The public were glued to 24-hour rolling news as police officers attempted to trace a man who was taunting them.
After killing one person and wounding two others in a two-day shooting spree in July 2010, 37-year-old ex-prisoner Raoul Moat went on the run for nearly a week.
It all came to an end when Moat took his own life near the Northumberland town of Rothbury, following a six-hour stand off with armed police.
ITV's new documentary tells the inside story of how one of Britain's most notorious killers evaded police after going on the run before being tracked down in a dramatic stand-off following a week-long manhunt.
In this new programme ten years on, using interviews with police, victims' relatives and witnesses, Nicky Campbell tells the story of how the Newcastle-based criminal was tracked down - all in the glare of 24-hour rolling news.
Manhunt: The Raoul Moat Story is on ITV Thursday 9 July at 9pm.
What happened?
Newly released from jail, 37-year-old Moat went after his former girlfriend Samatha Stobbart and her new boyfriend Chris Brown, 29.
The former bouncer shot them both, killing Mr Brown, who he wrongly thought was a policeman.
Moat later claimed he had heard them laughing about him as he listened through an open window at Samantha's neighbours' house in Birtley, Gateshead.
Police held a news conference and were on alert to find Moat when he picked out unarmed PC David Rathband on a roundabout by the A1 in Newcastle and shot him twice.
The officer survived but lost his sight.
In 2010, PC Rathband won a Pride of Britain award after setting up a charity, the Blue Lamp Foundation, to help other members of the emergency services injured in the line of duty.
Two years later, his body was found at his home in Blyth, Northumberland, after committing suicide.
Northumbria Police Chief Constable Sue Sim led a major operation to find the country's most wanted man. Moat had declared "war on police" in a 999 call moments before he shot PC Rathband. The search was one of the biggest of its kind in Britain's recent history.
Speaking to ITV Tyne Tees, Northumbria Police Chief Constable Sue Sim expressed the regrets she still carries to this day to our correspondent Gregg Easteal.
The twin brother of PC David Rathband, who died in 2012, said life without his “shadow” is empty, as he paid tribute on the 10th anniversary of the officer’s shooting by Raoul Moat.