grandad wrote:
MR T wrote:
Can you imagine it.. all those days on the run... ducking and diving.... and then being caught....... and then being told... your mate Gazza is here.....

That would be enough to make any man want to shoot himself.
I can't get my head around one bit though. This chap had shot 3 people, kolling one of them and he is holding a gun to his own head. Well I am OK so far. It would seem to me that in an attempt to stop him killing himself and/or another person, the police used a tazer on him. Well I am OK with that as well. Now the chap still manages to shoot himself and eventually he dies. Again I'm OK so far. Now why the f**k do the family want another post mortem? What do they expect it to show? Are they sugesting that maybe it was the use of the tazer that made the chap shoot himself and that he was, perhaps, about to give himself up?
1. Northumbria Police used taser guns either by pointing or discharging them more than any other police force in the country last year.
2. It is reported that two taser guns were discharged into Raoul Moat's body & at 50,000 volts each that makes a total of 100,000 volts.
3. The police knew that Moat was holding a shot-gun to his head, with his finger / thumb on the trigger.
4. The effect of using a taser gun on a person is that the target's body goes into involuntary rapid spasms; the police knew that too.
5. Given the above facts, any fool would know that Moat's body would go into involuntary spasms & with his finger / thumb on the shot-gun trigger, it was a stone-blind certainty that he would fire the shot-gun involuntarily into himself.
6. The two policemen who fired the taser guns knew what the consequences would be of firing taser guns in such a situation.
7. They will be extremely lucky to escape a charge of manslaughter. They fired a weapon, whilst not being threatened & in imminent danger themselves. Had they been threatened & in imminent danger, Moat's shot-gun would have been pointed at them instead of at himself when his shot-gun was discharged.