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Gazza relives 'night of madness' as he tried to help Raoul Moat
Gateshead-born football legend Paul Gascoigne has spoken about the moment he turned up in Rothbury, just hours before the fugitive killer, who had been on the run for seven days shot himself.
Alcoholic, Gazza, who has just returned to Tyneside after spending five weeks in a US rehab clinic, said he had been convinced he knew former bouncer Moat, 37, and wanted to help him.
But he now knows his actions on that July 2010 night were just another example of the drunken madness that almost cost him his life.
Gazza, 45, said: “I don’t know what the f*** I was doing. A f****** fishing rod and a chicken? What was that about?
“Fishing has helped me when I’ve been in a bad place and I must have thought it’d be the same for him.”
Moat had been tracked down in Rothbury a week after shooting his ex Samantha Stobbart and murdering her boyfriend Chris Brown. Gazza said he did not realise he had also shot traffic cop PC Rathband in the face 24 hours later. He continued: “I’d been drinking and saw the Moat story flash up on the news. Without thinking I decided I needed to go and help him.
“I’ve brought him a fishing rod, some chicken and a six-pack and got in the back of a taxi with it all.
“I thought, ‘Moaty won’t shoot me, I’m good friends with him’. I thought I knew him, but I’d been drinking.”
“I told the taxi driver where to go and when he saw the Rothbury sign he looked at me and said, ‘I hope we’re not going where I think we are’? When we got there I got out and said, ‘Stay here, I’ll be back in a minute’. But as soon as I got out, the driver spun the car around and sped off.”
Boozed-up Gazza, from Dunston, told cops at the security cordon: “He’s willing to give in now. I just want to give him some therapy and say, ‘Come on, Moaty, it’s Gazza’.”
Moat, from Fenham, Newcastle, died after a stand-off with police.
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