Cornered Moat 'Holding A Gun To His Head'

Local radio says close friend of Raoul Moat is being brought in to negotiating process.

Originally posted by LiveForever8
reply to post by star in a jar

 

He only has a sawn-off shotgun and is completely surrounded so I have no idea why they are asking for a 10 mile radius, very strange.

Might be a technicality they don't want seen:

reply to post by intrepid




I think they probably could just kill him and nobody would see it as anything other than justified, However... I still think taking his ass to jail is the best thing and I'm glad they haven't just opened fire and blown him to pieces.

If he even attempts to shoot at police now, He'll be dead.

But they know, as he's told them, he wants to be shot by cops (suicide by cop) so they are mindful of that.

[edit on 9/7/10 by blupblup]

I think the 10 mile exclusion is an air exclusion, not ground.
That's what's been said on the sky news website thingy.

I didn't think it was a ground/land one....

reply to post by blupblup


I think it's on the ground as well just going from what we can see live on sky news (the right side of the screen is the live version and the left is replayed footage)

They're all behind a police tape with police guarding them.

BTW they've literally just shown the first image of Raoul Moat right now.

Theres no doubt that the pic is him
That pic could be a woman ha ha

Originally posted by blupblup
reply to post by intrepid

 

I think they probably could just kill him and nobody would see it as anything other than justified, However... I still think taking his ass to jail is the best thing and I'm glad they haven't just opened fire and blown him to pieces.

If he even attempts to shoot at police now, He'll be dead.

But they know, as he's told them, he wants to be shot by cops (suicide by cop) so they are mindful of that.

Jail, Why bother putting him away for life at our cost? He will be a hero and a insparation in jail,

From experience i can tell you jail is not bad in England..

reply to post by jazz10


Well he fits the description that witnesses gave earlier on perfectly so it's pretty safe to assume that it's him.

reply to post by Rising Against




Yeah but the press and public are gathered in the town centre?
And Rothbury clearly isn't 10 miles wide/long?

It said on skynews message thing that it was ground and I would say that's probably true.
It would be almost impossible to enforce this on the ground... and there are still plenty of news crews in Rothbury.

UPDATE*

Ok now they are taking him food?

This is a real JOKE

Originally posted by CodenameDoeB


Jail, Why bother putting him away for life at our cost? He will be a hero and a insparation in jail,

From experience i can tell you jail is not bad in England..

Because fortunately that's the system that we have.
We put people in prison and try and rehabilitate them...we don't just kill every criminal.


And you don't think that the guy will be a "Hero" if he goes out blazing against the cops?

I think jail is the preferable option.... He didn't go around just shooting at the public, like the other nutter.... perhaps he's just flipped and maybe he can be sorted out?

Who knows man

reply to post by blupblup


I see, well I could be wrong of course and that exclusion zone was just for the air like you say which isn't so bad I guess.

If that's the case then thanks for clarifying.

Also they are saying they're delivering food and water to him right now as well.

[edit on 9-7-2010 by Rising Against]

reply to post by Rising Against




Well I'm only going by logistics really.... and logic.... It's weird that they say "An exclusion zone" on the news.... yet on the website it's an aerial exclusion zone.

Just going by the fact that they're interviewing people in the town centre and the fact cameras are still all over filming the snipers and so on, I think it must be an aerial zone only.

It is confusing mate



[edit on 9/7/10 by blupblup]

Whats Gazza git to do with it?undefined

Originally posted by jazz10
Whats Gazza git to do with it?undefined

ZOMG!! maybe he's a terrorist too

[edit on 9/7/10 by blupblup]

reply to post by blupblup


The footage we are seeing on SkyNews is from a hour ago,

Hope this helps

Last ditch hostage attempt to freedom,,,,,,, maybe not?
But Gazza? WOW!

reply to post by CodenameDoeB




Yeah not the bit that says Live from Rothbury and the news reporters are still talking now.... live. And they just moved for more vehicles and so on.

These pictures are not old... the old pics are the still shots and the clips of them with tasers and so on.

Gazza? Really? Could this get any more abstract?

*Breaking news*


John Barnes has been heard trying the Barnes rap in an attempt to end the siege after Moat shot Gazza....

Waddle and Hoddle are being lined up next.