PC David Rathband Dies
I can’t believe this. I’m sure it’s going to get coverage tomorrow so I’ll keep you posted, readers. My thoughts are with his family.
The police officer shot and blinded by gunman Raoul Moat has been found dead at his home in Northumberland.
Northumbria Police force said David Rathband had been discovered at his house in Blyth.
Moat shot his former girlfriend Samantha Stobbart and killed her new boyfriend Chris Brown in Birtley, in July 2010.
The next day he shot and blinded PC Rathband as the traffic officer sat in his patrol car in Newcastle.
For almost a week Moat was the subject of a huge manhunt which ended when he apparently shot himself dead after a stand-off with armed police in the market town of Rothbury, Northumberland.
The officer lost his sight and was fitted with prosthetic eyes.
In September, last year PC Rathband announced he and his wife Kath were separating.
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Horrendous. I know David had had a difficult time with travels recently and appears to have experienced some discrimination with an airline as well as coping with ongoing surgery for his injuries – clearly had a hell of a lot on his plate. He was a good guy and I’m really sorry to see him go.
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A Police Officer doing what he loved upholding the law, until a scum bag took away from this young PC a life which would take him into a cruel existence of darkness which no one should endure and eventually taking his life.I refuse to mention by name the scum bag who tok his life but if there is a place such as HELL then may his slowly rot.
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