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POLICE officers hunting for Raoul Moat were "excited" by the arrival of new Tasers just hours before they entered a stand-off with the fugitive gunman, it was reported last night.
Witnesses described seeing the weapons being handed out to officers who they said then practised firing them at rubbish sacks. Killer Moat, 37, died after shooting himself in the early hours of last Saturday morning at the end of a six-hour stand-off in the village of Rothbury, Northumberland. It followed a week-long manhunt for the steroid-abusing father-of-three, who killed karate instructor Chris Brown, 29, and wounded his former girlfriend Sam Stobbart, 22, and Pc David Rathband, 42.See the full content of this document
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Cops Fired Up by New Stun Guns
Moat went on the rampage after Miss Stobbart said she had left him for another man.
She watched ...See the full content of this document
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