Manhunt in Northumbria on BBC

rypt · 8 Jul 2010 at 11:53

Those cows are gonna get shot

Scream · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:09

I cannot believe the number of cops drafted in to get this guy and also the media coverage he is getting.

A cop/soldier gets shot in Northern Ireland and you don't see them drafting hundreds of cops in to hunt down the killers?

If its just for show and to keep people happy then they better keep to this policy from now on.

I have never seen such an over the top manhunt in my life. Only in England.

Strife212 · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:16

I was about to post actually, interesting how the police roll out the cavalry when one of their own is shot.

Allnamestaken · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:17

If it was a black copper... :rolleyes:

Participant · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:18

Surely by now he'll have changed his hair colour and clothes and be growing a beard?

Fact is you can't live on the run forever. Eventually he'll have three choices:

- stay and go to prison
- stay and get shot
- try and leave the country to somewhere without interpol relations and with no extradition treaty with the UK

dirtydog · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:22

Allnamestaken said:
If it was a black copper...

?

Allnamestaken · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:22

He could go to Iraq

N try n face off with our troops but if he starts shooting them our guys will probably have to call london for permission before shooting him..

If you dont get that read the armed forces thread in Speakers lounge lol.

Ahleckz · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:31

There's more policemen looking for him in fields than we have troops in Iraq.

Cosimo · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:31

rypt said:
Those cows are gonna get shot :D[/QUOTE]

Yup, by mistake."One of them looked like Raoul so we shot one". ;)

Cosimo · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:35

Ahleckz said:
There's more policemen looking for him in fields than we have troops in Iraq.

The police canteens must be empty and it must be an excellent overtime opportunity.

Allnamestaken · 8 Jul 2010 at 12:36

Hahaha theres going to be a recruitment drive to look for this guy.

Poor sods whos applications were rescinded.

I bet the government regrets that now!

ringo747 · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:11

Sounds like there is some threat that he will target the public now.

DannyDan · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:14

ringo747 said:
Sounds like there is some threat that he will target the public now.

I'd have thought that with the police being prepared now, the second he makes another attack the net will close in on him very quickly. The media whore will probably stay in hiding and throw a few more empty threats around.

doodah · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:15

Doesn't actually say how they know this?

Von Smallhausen · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:16

Strife212 said:
I was about to post actually, interesting how the police roll out the cavalry when one of their own is shot.

Perhaps there are wider implications ?

Danthus · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:25

Strife212 said:
I was about to post actually, interesting how the police roll out the cavalry when one of their own is shot.

What a ridiculous thing to say!

Von Smallhausen said:
Perhaps there are wider implications ?

It would seem so now, two more arrests, the SIO talking about another vehicle they are interested in locating and an intimation that they are in some way in contact with Moat either directly or through an intermediary.

KNiVES · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:39

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10520061.stm

Haha, pointing a rifle at two old ladies might be a bit overkill

Participant · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:41

The one on the right's thinking 'he can point his gun at me anytime'.

Westyfield2 · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:41

KNiVES said:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10520061.stm

Haha, pointing a rifle at two old ladies might be a bit overkill

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18161615

Von Smallhausen · 8 Jul 2010 at 13:43

OldCoals said:
It would seem so now, two more arrests, the SIO talking about another vehicle they are interested in locating and an intimation that they are in some way in contact with Moat either directly or through an intermediary.

I would say that his words on not being a threat to the public were not taken as gospel by the SIO from the start and quite rightly so.

By wider implications my point above was that any person with such grudges who shoots a cop at point blank range cannot be dismissed lightly as not being a threat to an unarmed civilian.

As for suggestions of being an over the top response by Northumbria ? The people suggesting this clearly have no grasp of rural Northumberland. It is a huge geographical area to search.

Rothbury and Northumberland are some of my favourite parts of the world to go and get away from it all and while I do not know the area like the back of my hand I do appreciate the implications in searching such an area with its countless fields, hills, ravines, becks, caves, old mineshafts and rivers.