Raoul Moat was a 37-year-old steroid-stuffed northern English bodybuilder. At six feet three and nearly 240 pounds, he had all the prerequisites, including a terrible temper, for his job as a Newcastle nightclub bouncer.
On July 1, 2010, after serving 18 months in Durham Prison for assaulting a nine-year-old family relative, Moat was released. Forty-eight hours later, Moat tracked down his former partner, Samantha Stobbart, at her parents’ home in the company of her new boyfriend, Chris Brown, whom she’d acquired while Moat was in jail. When they left the house, Moat was waiting for them in the bushes. He blasted them with his double-barreled shotgun, killing Brown and severely wounding the 22-year-old Stobbart.
