The last time the cops got the run around like they are getting now with Raoul Moat was when gunman Barry Prudom went on the rampage in Malton Yorkshire on June 17, 1982. He managed to avoid the cops for 17 days and they gave up and called in an ex SAS tracker.when PC David Haigh was delivering a summons to a poacher in North Yorkshire's Washburn Valley.
When he didn't return, his colleague and friend Mick Clipston went in search of him.
Clipston found the police car with its doors open and David Haigh dead beside it. He had been shot in the forehead. It was the beginning of the biggest armed manhunt in British police history: one that lasted 17 days.
Having cleared the poacher of suspicion, police were left with a murder but no apparent motive - and almost no evidence. Written on a clipboard, found under Haigh's body, was a date of birth, a name and a car registration number.
But the name was false, and the car was found abandoned three days later, 25 miles away. The trail was cold.
Meanwhile, the gunman was on the move. In Lincolnshire he broke into a house. Then, 20 miles away, on the fifth day of the police hunt, he entered the home of Sylvia and George Luckett, shooting both in the head before escaping in their car. George died instantly, but his wife crawled next door for help. She survived, but to this day remembers nothing.
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