To think it is a waste of money having a enquiry into the death of Raoul Moat?

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What a waste of time and money.
He killed himself, end of.

Agree about the inquiry, Mom, but I don't think the police and prison authorities should just shrug their shoulders and say 'oh, there's no way we could have predicted this'. They might not have foreseen the guy would go to such extremes, but they did know he was a violent thug who had already attacked several people and they should have acted on that info urgently.

Who cares how and why he died? The main thing is he is dead and can no longer terrorise people of this country. RIP you fucking loony!

I'm not dismissing it, my unfortunate perspective is that the majority of people who leave prison or commit violent offences leave with a warning that they have some intent to reoffend. The great majority do not, some do. Usually it elicits visits, generates intelligence actions etc. My understanding is that despite the character he clearly was he was only convicted of one assault - against a child? At his nightclub? Until the enquiry is complete it is impossible to speculate as to how much info was actually in the public domain.

Even if he was known for previous dv offences I doubt that warnings/reasonable actions could have prevented his very extreme reaction.

His crimes are shocking.

there needs to be an enquiry.

There needs to be an enquiry into how he was in the same place for six days and yet 60 police officers were unable to find him.

There needs to be an enquiry into how he was able to walk down the high street on Thursday night and there were no police close enough to apprehend him.

There needs to be an enquiry into why sky news were allowed to show pictures of him on that river bank with a gun to his head, were allowed to turn this into more of a circus than it already was by bringing on Gazza (who had clearly had more than his fair share of substances of unknown nature and who is a known wifebeater) to defend this individual.

And if he was tasered, and the taser somehow led to a reaction which led to him pulling the trigger (as has been suggested) there needs to be an enquiry into why there was a need to taser him at that particular moment, and whether the risks of doing so were known etc.

The reality is that he was never likely to have made it out of there alive. And that if he had, he would never have been able to receive a fair trial (and whatever we think of him and what he did, he would still be entitled to a fair trial, be that to establish whether his crimes were motivated through pure evil or mental illness).

I think what he did was despicable. However that doesn't mean that we should just sit back and say "well he's dead, the world is a better place," without asking questions.

"Who cares how and why he died?"

His family!

I think the only thing that needs to be ask is why were the police not warned he was clearly a nutter before he was let out.