Bodyguard actor to star as killer Raoul Moat in new crime drama

ITV has announced the casting for genuine crime drama The Hunt for Raoul Moat as filming begins from Line of Duty studio Earth Productions.

Bodyguard and Misfits star Matt Stokoe is playing Moat, who was an ex-prisoner who killed his ex-girlfriend and wounded her new boyfriend and a policeman in a shooting spree prior to likely on the operate for nearly a week, inevitably dying by suicide soon after a extended standoff with law enforcement, again in 2010.

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Inspector George Gently and The A Phrase star Lee Ingleby will be taking part in Neil Adamson, a senior officer at Northumbria Police who led the search to come across Moat while he was on the run.

The Man Who Fell to Earth’s Sonya Cassidy and Vera’s Vineeta Rishi have been cast as Diane Barnwell and Nisha Roberts, respectively. Ultimately, Doc Martin actress Sally Meesham and Chernobyl’s Josef Davis are taking part in Moat’s ex Samantha Stobbart and her boyfriend Christopher Brown.

The drama is said to start off with Samantha attempting to get her life again collectively with a new partner following Moat was imprisoned, but four months later on he receives produced and decides to look for revenge following observing that she has moved on without having him.

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Screenwriter Kevin Sampson, who beforehand wrote the drama Anne, is quoted as declaring: “The hunt for Raoul Moat gripped me from the start off, as it was the first these kinds of situation to be protected ‘live’ by the new 24-hour news channels in the Uk.

“Even then, it intrigued me that Moat was getting portrayed by some as a ‘legend’ in spite of the brutality of his crimes. In 2022, violence from girls stays rife and is all far too usually accompanied by a target-blaming agenda. I hope this drama will go some way to condemning this narrative.”

Previous Tango in Halifax and Line of Obligation director Gareth Bryn will be directing the show, which is nonetheless to get an air day.

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