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Inside the mind of a murderer

Will Andrew Hankinson’s study of Raoul Moat’s spree-killing obsession become a script for further murder?

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

6 February 2016

9:00 AM

You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life (You Are Raoul Moat) Andrew Hankinson

Scribe, pp.240, £12.99, ISBN: 9781922247919

For one week in July 2010, the aspiring spree killer Raoul Moat was the only news. ‘Aspiring’ because he didn’t actually achieve his violent ambitions: by the time he died, he’d only managed to shoot three people (four if you include himself) and murder one (two if you count PC David Rathband, who was blinded by Moat and killed himself four years later).

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